On Monday, March 1, 2021 at 4:08:04 PM UTC-5, Ralph Mowery wrote:
A few years ago Texas was talking about leaving the US. Maybe we should
have let them. They wanted their own power grid to stay away from the
Federal regulations.

Now I don't really understand all the ins and outs of this, but seems
they can not keep the lights on with out a big money problem with a week
of ice.

How can there be an electric charge of one weeks of power that exceeds
abot 3 times what it should be for a year ?

Deregulation.

Simply put, as the supply of electricity approached zero, the price of electricity
approached infinity.

Cindy Hamilton