Yikes

Now the Texas politicians are counting on the dreaded US government to bail out the consumers.

Think twice about deregulation and leaving the Union.

Edited: 02/21/2021 at 05:37 PM by theglide

They want to secede from their past anti government smack talk.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

This is a good example of why some common use commodities and services need to have some regulation over price. quality and safety.

$16,000 for month's of electricity for a private home is obscene.
I also don't want to fly on an airline that has no maintenance regulations to follow, nor eat food that doesn't have cleanliness and safety regulations.



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Edited: 02/22/2021 at 07:13 AM by Bamboo

Gubment bad

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Of all things, the electric power utilities should be owned by the people in common and operated at cost for the benefit of everyone.

I recently learned that citizens in the USA experience more power outages (time spent without power) than any other developed country.

Privatized, deregulated, and maintenance deferred spells trouble for an essential service.


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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

Have you no sense of adventure?

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Those Texans assumed the risks they were deliberately kept in the dark over. It's like coyote killer Texas Rick said, Texans would rather die of exposure and thirst than suffer the added expense of federal regulations to winterize their grid. Those Texans are so tough and independent. They have the world's fifth largest economy based heavily on energy and they were in the dark with zero degrees and plenty of other people to blame.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

They all think they're Jeremiah Johnson as long as the lights are on.

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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

Not necessarily for those global warming activists who live in 20,000 sq.ft. mega-mansions. But, otherwise, it is. We need to make sure Florida doesn't get into that situation by going to green energy.

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god tspang it stupid. It's a shame that after COVID is gone that spanq is too far gone to return to normal. Well unless normal is a ghoulish husk of a half man then he's good to go.

Edited: 02/22/2021 at 11:13 AM by Greensleeves

I can tell Tpap watched Tucker this week and bought his bullshit without bothering to question it.

Let's see, Texas is on their own power grid so they don't have to fall under federal regulation and oversight (the only state in the country I believe). They knew they had a problem a decade ago when the same thing happened to a lesser degree. They did nothing about their shitty power infrastructure because power companies didn't want to pay to do it despite knowing that there was a problem. In short, power grids not adhering to national standards with a known problem that the companies refused to spend the money on to fix (then all the following fuckery after the outage from them to boot). Sure though, blame the wind turbines that are responsible for only 25% of their power.

nice Riddles! You can tell when the Qotards are fed their lies. They all start mindlessly yapping about their soul-less $hit cause.

So the power companies grease the corrupt QOP legislators and the people of TX run the risk of calamity? Hey sounds like here!

Green as in $$$$$$.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

They cut taxes down to nothing, then the place falls apart due to lack of funds. The same thing is happening in Florida. The Mosquito Lagoon is the prime example.

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This is where Rick Scott can come in and teach them that you can't lower taxes and run your state so you transfer them to ad valorem and claim you lowered taxes. Then you claim you made the lower budget more efficient. All those lies work on republicans.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Until the infrastructure collapses.

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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

I don't know, letting the airline industry police themselves seems to be working out pretty well. Perhaps the zero regulation people are on to something.

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Edited: 02/23/2021 at 12:58 PM by Cole