re: Texas Governor-elect is talking price controls on electricity.

She sounds a lot like the Priscilla Gonzalez bitch that tried to infiltrate CD-3 in Louisiana. She came here solely to run for Congress. Fortunately, we were smart enough to tell her to go the frick back where she came from. Too bad Texans aren’t that smart.

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But but but…they said she’s not DSA

The timeline for them to show true colors is going to be much shorter than I thought

And it won’t be long before buyer’s remorse sets in

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It's true that stupid people playing stupid games receive stupid prizes, unfortunately in this midterm election we all get to share in the stupid prizes with the stupid people who placed the DSA in power....AGAIN!!!!!

When you vote socialism you get socialism.


And if anyone wants to know how this happens, just go visit any game thread. People can't even hold their shite together for 30 minutes. Constant panic.

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Texas deserves what they allow to happen.

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While true, its going to affect all of us quickly

These idiots lack both common sense and business sense. They are like children making decisions on pure emotion. It's like asking a child if they would rather a candy bar or a $100 bill. They don't know the difference, so they go for the thing with immediate gratification.

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Explain it to us then?

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Texas is a deregulated utility market. CenterPoint is the regulated grid operator but there are hundreds of retail electric providers that are private companies (I’m actually part owner in one). There’s not a good mechanism to regulate private companies like there is for PUC regulated utilities like the rest of the country has. There’s also freedom to chose laws that prevent predatory utility practices and those utilities have customer contracts.

ETA this is the simple version. There’s some differences when you get into Oncor, El Paso, CPS, etc but they’re not the major problem.

Yeap, it's worked so well in other states where that was attempted, like Maryland. Texas, be ready to pay higher than ever rates!

To the retarded under 30 crowd who have never read a history book price controls sound like a great idea. Just wait til the lights go off and stay off morons.

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TX has its own grid

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Seems that was a Cold War strategy since Texas had many military bases, munition plants, oil and natural gas. If the main US grid went down from foreign attack, at least the grid in Texas would still be operable.

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Half of the state is illiterate to begin with.

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That's golden coming from a resident of LA.