eider
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No they are not.
As if you bothered to go out to then.
When demand gets high the prices soar.
I do love your insults, telling me so much about you.
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As if you bothered to go out to then.
I do love your insults, telling me so much about you.
Right Divider
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It's called supply and demand. It's normal and natural.
Although loonies have been trying to deny it for a very long time.
Here is the order from the Federal government that created the Texas power grid situation. The power outages have nothing to do with Texas other than that they are a red state.
The following link will give you the opportunity to download and read the order created by the Feds. As you can see from the url below this is a .gov website.
The following link will give you the opportunity to download and read the order created by the Feds. As you can see from the url below this is a .gov website.
eider
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To charge extra in hard times is not good service practice.
We don't get anything like that here.
You don't know what you're talking about. You're just being stupid, contemptible, and irritating troll.
You still don't understand what a contract is. I guess they don't have those in England.
You are so ignorant of the facts it's criminal.
The DOE forced Texas to buy power from out of state, and when that happens during an emergency event Texas was forced to buy at emergency prices. That's the reason for the high prices. That was forced upon Texas by the federal government. Texas utilities were not the cause of the high prices. They were forced to pay the high prices, at up to 18000% above normal. That's the Biden administration punishing Texas for political reasons.
This is a prime example of what happens when big government, socialism, sticks it's nose where it doesn't belong. One of Biden's own executive orders produced these results.
Arthur Brain
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I don't hate Mexicans at all and this was just utter drivel HT.
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
It was kinda off the wall, wasn't it? Cruz isn't Mexican, either, so who knows what Mexicans he was even talking about.
annabenedetti
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Blaming this on Biden is insane.
Texas has its own power grid. It's independent of the national grid and isn't regulated by the FERC, and has had little incentive (before now, anyway) to winterize the grid infrastructure.
The reasons Texas controls its own grid, the journalist Kate Galbraith observed in a Texplainer piece for the Texas Tribune in 2011 have to do with the same theme that colors so much of Texas' history and public policy: a distrust of federal interference.
Now the TX AG is investigating ERCOT:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday issued civil investigative demands to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas and 11 other power companies related to the power outages, emergency plans, energy pricing and other factors associated with this week’s winter weather disaster in the state.
In a press release Friday, Paxton said he's launching an investigation into ERCOTand other entities that “grossly mishandled this week’s extreme winter weather,” leaving millions of Texans to endure sub-freezing temperatures without power or heat for several days.
eider
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President Biden has ordered Federal funding to be extended to Texas, and the temperature is slowly rising, or so we hear in the UK. Excellent.
But scores of thousands are still without clean water.
eider
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Usual tribal backhander there, from ffreeloader.
Federal funding has been extended to help the people of Texas now.
See? That's Federal socialism at work within the communities.
eider
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Maybe he meant all Mexicans and actually believes that we wanted a big dividing wall built to keep them away from the USA?
eider
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Now that looks more like the truth.
Why?
And more importantly, (why) do you think that doing so should be illegal/restricted/regulated/etc.?
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The Department of Energy begs to differ with all you socialists. They were the ones telling Texas what to do.
I guess you know Biden’s executive order caused the energy problem in Texas, but then again you aren’t to good handling truth.
Arthur Brain
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That's just absolute rubbish.
Derf
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Can someone explain this headline and article to me?
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By The Associated Press
February 20, 2021 Updated: February 20, 2021
biggersmaller
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DALLAS—With the snow and ice clearing in Texas after days of unusually cold temperatures, bodies are being found of people who likely froze to death as they struggled to stay warm after electricity was cut to millions of homes
Of the around 70 deaths attributed to the snow, ice, and frigid temperatures nationwide, more than a dozen were people who perished in homes that had lost their heat, and most of those were in Texas. They include an 11-year-old boy who died in his bed in Conroe, near Houston, and two older men found dead in their homes in the small West Texas town of Buffalo Gap in Taylor County.
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The headline clearly says "Around 70 Suspected Hypothermia Deaths Reported in Texas..."
The article clearly delineates 70 nationwide deaths, or whom "more than a dozen" were in their own homes, and that
most of "more than a dozen" who perished in their homes were in Texas.
To me, that sounds like perhaps a dozen people died in Texas of something to do with the frigid temperatures, but not necessarily hypothermia.
So how is the headline justified??? Certainly not from the article contents!
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Around 70 Suspected Hypothermia Deaths Reported in Texas Homes After Deep Freeze
By The Associated Press
February 20, 2021 Updated: February 20, 2021
biggersmaller
DALLAS—With the snow and ice clearing in Texas after days of unusually cold temperatures, bodies are being found of people who likely froze to death as they struggled to stay warm after electricity was cut to millions of homes
Of the around 70 deaths attributed to the snow, ice, and frigid temperatures nationwide, more than a dozen were people who perished in homes that had lost their heat, and most of those were in Texas. They include an 11-year-old boy who died in his bed in Conroe, near Houston, and two older men found dead in their homes in the small West Texas town of Buffalo Gap in Taylor County.
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The headline clearly says "Around 70 Suspected Hypothermia Deaths Reported in Texas..."
The article clearly delineates 70 nationwide deaths, or whom "more than a dozen" were in their own homes, and that
most of "more than a dozen" who perished in their homes were in Texas.
To me, that sounds like perhaps a dozen people died in Texas of something to do with the frigid temperatures, but not necessarily hypothermia.
So how is the headline justified??? Certainly not from the article contents!
It's only rubbish if you repeatedly deny the evidence from the Biden administration about what Texas utilities could and could not do. But that's the norm from you. You see your bald-faced assertions as evidence and ignore the evidence that shows you 100% wrong.
I can explain that in two words. Fake News.
This is a good example of how the mockingbird media works with the deep state and the Democrats.