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Originally Posted by Ben Franklin
I guess we can compare this to the privately owned electrical grid in Texas where it's failure costs citizens, hundreds and thousands of dollars. Stealing people's private property, via eminent domain for pipelines, so corporations can increase their profit is not the American way, IMHO. Plus gas and oil prices aren't controlled by the US, as they are a global commodity. Maybe we can do the Saudis another favor by killing another person they don't like, sell them more weapons, and get favorable standing with them?
Yeah, let's not covert to solar, wind and cleaner fuels, as we always have Mars to colonize.
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Hey, I resemble that remark!
I was actually there in Texas on the day Houston experienced a 10 degree day and a million homes were destroyed by broken water pipes. My CLOSING was supposed to be on that day! Instead, I spent it with a small generator, running around like a mad man with drop lights and space heaters, trying to keep my house in a sell-able condition.
And why was I forced to do this in the "Energy Capital of the World"? I can tell you this -- it had nothing to do with Texas' "private" grid.
It was because the electricity for the 4th largest city in the country is provided by a NUCLEAR GENERATOR THAT COULDN'T SURVIVE A 10 DEGREE DAY. The cooling water froze so they had to shut it down! How stupid do you have to be to get your energy (in the middle of the oil patch!) from a power plant that becomes a bomb if you don't shut it down on a 10 degree day?
But the rest of the Texas grid might have been able to pick up the slack if 25% of the oil-fired capacity hadn't already been replaced with WINDMILLS in West Texas THAT ALSO FAILED (in the Permian Basin, for crying out loud!)!
As one who lived it, I can testify that the dumba-situde of relying on "alternate clean sources of energy" in the middle of the oil patch is what caused the Texas power disaster!