On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 05:28:00 -0800 (PST), bruce bowser
wrote:

On Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 1:01:40 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 07:55:29 -0800 (PST), bruce bowser
wrote:

On Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 10:34:36 AM UTC-5, Mike Flannigan wrote in alt.atheism:
davej wrote

"Climate Change?" Humbug! It's just a Libtard hoax! We Texans know
everything!

That's what happens when they hire illegal Mexican labor at $2 a day to build
'em.

Electricity was invented by somee Eurotrash named Tesla or a damn Yankee from
New York, not southern people.

Why back then, they were still nursing their wounds from the Great War of
Northern Agression and trying to figure out how to take care of themselves
without the aid of black slaves.

Why would they need electricity when it was just another progressive fad?

"Nuclear power provides about 11% of Texas electricity. But one of two reactors at the South Texas Project nuclear plant tripped offline on Monday. It was a big plant to lose, costing the state 1.3 gigawatts of power generation, about a quarter of its total nuclear capacity. The cold weather caused a false signal to shut down a feedwater intake, tripping a pump offline and then the entire generating unit."

Forbes - Feb 24, 2021
-- https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-...h=720983405486

It is just what happens when people don't plan on the 100 year weather
event.
We had another great example in the North East when 25 million people
ignored the idea that tropical weather can go up the coast and "almost
a storm Sandy" kicked their ass. 150 people died. I think Texas is
doing a little better than that.

Strangely though, profit and price gouging for heirs and heiresses to big oil fortunes wasn't 'frozen'. The obvious is such an oversight.

That surprises you?
The greed went all the way down to the consumers tho. Those people who
wanted to play in the wholesale market for cheap rates suddenly found
that can be a wild ride when they got 5 figure electric bills.
It's Texas, those folks don't think like everyone else and I imagine
they will go back to their old ways in a month or so.