Texas Isn’t Leading Us to the Promised Land

Yup, fair enough AOC. People are fickle and have short memories. What I find interesting (sad?) is how quickly people are to assign blame in a situation instead of honestly evaluating it, figuring out how to recover from it and how to prevent it from occurring again. (35+ years doing semiconductor manufacturing where decisions are data driven) There is also the question of why (if they do) does Texas have a “stand-alone” power grid system (true or not?), instead of being able to draw/share power from neighboring states. My understanding is that the region from OK to ND are able to share power among the states as needed. True? I also wonder if it actually makes economic sense for the capacity of the power grid to be able to handle the 98th percentile power requirement, which would happen VERY RARELY, like now. My experience says no, even though it will very occasionally result in a problem situation, like this one. The answer is yes, from a humanitarian point of view, but I’m not sure it makes sense from an economic pov. A large extra carrying capacity (surge capacity) would be great to have, but is expensive. Being able to power share in a situation like this makes more sense…

I know for a fact that in the late 60’s, there was a 33 KVa line running from SW OK into N TX. I used to drive it with my Dad as he surveyed it for damage about twice a year.

TX claims they set up an independent electrical grid so they can avoid FERC rules.

This may be an outlier event or it may be part of the new little ice age. Monday morning we set a new record low of 1, beating the previous low of 8 that has stood for a very long time and there is more snow on the ground that I have ever seen in my almost 40 years in W TN. With the GSM, we should be expecting an extended time of cooler/colder weather.

Winters are when demand is lowest and is usually the time for maintenance on generating stations and ERCOT got caught with their pants down. The GSM has been predicted for many years, yet they did not prepare for the real possibility of what is happening. The Panhandle has always been subject to ice storms and there are a lot of their wind farms there. There are a lot of policies that do not make sense, like changing NG pumping stations from NG to electricity and shutting down coal and NG generating plants in favor of solar/wind. IMHO, solar and wind should be used for peak shaving and to reduce the demand put on stable power generating plants. It should not be counted on as the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind does not always blow, even in W TX.

No doubt the great climate hoax is part of the reset. We are told that if we just do away with fossil fuels, everything will be hunky dory while our “betters” flit around the globe in their private jets and gas guzzling limousines. They are also protected by armed security guards, but we have no need for weapons to protect ourselves.

You’re assuming that these “leaders” are not in on it all — the “bad policy” of heavy dependence on renewable energy, etc. is deliberate, and it’s intended to all come together with GSM and other “random” events like covid to amplify the pain and misery into a huge conflagration that will lay this country low. They’re in the big club, so they’re well compensated, no doubt…

But nobody forced Texans to bend over and take it.

Ok, I admit it, I’m a Texan, ergo: I could have stopped all this but I didn’t. I didn’t realize how powerful I was, my magic wand was rusty and I didn’t use it. Mea culpa and my bad. All the rest of us all powerful Texans are real bad for not using our magic powers to stop the shit. We weren’t given a vote or a choice BTW, guess in your world the politicians and corporate heads all check with you first before they do anything, right?

This past summer we had a drought and a spell of over 100 degrees for weeks. We set records for heat. It is usually hot in Texas, not frigid cold. This broke records, records from as far back as 1898.

As to stopping the situation? How and with who’s army? You seem to think that everything is black and white with no shades of grey. You also ignore the massive levels of climate propaganda that have been belched out by the media and talking heads for decades, propaganda that is alive and well and being pushed real hard…again…by the imposter in the White House.

As to voting? Please. Were you hiding under the bed this last election? Did you notice the fact that the election was fraudulently stolen? I do believe there are hundreds of politicians in office at this very moment who are there solely due to voter fraud.

Can’t argue with that conclusion. We are always ultimately responsible for defending our rights.

You should wrap your head around the fact that this has been a record breaking cold spell. You should also wrap your head around human nature and how things get done. There has to be a crisis, people have to suffer and die before things change and often, even after a crisis, when things settle down, human nature tends to forget until the next crisis. Forethought is rare.

Here’s Abbott explaining it all….Interesting how NOW, after all the misery, the coal and nuclear are coming online. Quel suprise. The real reason for the blackouts was the cost of power….$9,000 per MWH?!!?
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-17/how-do-you-restart-an-oil-well-that-s-frozen-solid?srnd=premium

AOC, you are a very intelligent man. You are also an anomaly in today’s Brave New World. Most TBP folk are anomalies, we tend to pay attention and look ahead, use foresight and make preparations where we can. I daresay ten percent of the general population fits into this category. The other 90% stagger around and seek someone to tell them what to do.

I fully appreciate what all is in store vis a vis food shortages, inflation, I have paid attention to the Maunder/ Grand Solar Minimum and am making plans around that event. I am painfully aware of what misery awaits as per this illegitimate and insane government.

My brother and SIL took my 93 yo father to their house in San Antonio for the bad weather. I said great, thinking they had some preps and common sense. My bad. Yesterday the power went out at their place and had been out for hours. Their answer was to sit in the car and wait for the power to come back on. I had a shitfit, asked my brother why he didn’t use the fireplace and gas stove? Hem and haw and finally got him to get the fireplace up and running (it had a stuck damper, so he didn’t fix it?) Fortunatly they had water and once the fireplace was going they were alright…sigh.
My siblings are leftists and they rely on the government and… most people are EXACTLY like them.

You ever hear the expression ‘preaching to the choir?’ That’s what you’re doing here. Those ‘everybodys’ you want to reach don’t read TBP.

Think harder. When was the last time a response to your questions started and ended with, “I don’t know.” Almost everybody has a ready answer to every question and think that anyone who disagrees should try harder to catch up with them.

How does anyone help ‘them catch up’ in a potato sack race?

The herd is easily corralled because it won’t even question barbed wire.

TBP is no kind of corral. Those seeking answers here are listening to a pack of wolves howling at the moon, hungry for meat.

And they don’t give a fuck if the Devil takes the hindmost.

Donkey,

Yea, that’s was me…being No Name was an accident.

I have been researching Chemtrails for a decade…the Geo site I put up is the gold standard link.

Some people don’t want to believe FFs, DEW attacks, Chemtrailing, phony gene altering vaccines that will kill them, no matter the individual evidence that is put out…and the CIA Operation ‘Mocking Bird’ (to make anyone who does believe many things they are doing sound like they wear a tin foil hat) has been tremendously successful with its propaganda, brainwashing, and dumbing down.

That’s a fact too.

We’ve been in the markamo since Christmas…when you going to Myrtle Beach?