As much as I would welcome seeing the shit hole that is Texas collapse under their own hubris from leaving the US; I’m not sure you realize that Texas has their own electrical grid and shares very few utilities with other states.
We were shaking our heads at that all the way over here in Europe because it was on the news. They didn’t broadcast that in the US? Find it hard to believe
Yeah if I recall they specifically avoided connecting their grid to the rest of the US to avoid federal regulations, one effect of which is that the power companies can set whatever rates they want which is how the stories of Texans being charged thousands of dollars for electricity during catastrophic events like hurricanes come about.
As much as I would welcome seeing the shit hole that is Texas collapse under their own hubris from leaving the US; I’m not sure you realize that Texas has their own electrical grid and shares very few utilities with other states.
A power grid that’s barely functioning and tied to other grids anyway because they don’t make enough.
yeah people all over the world know about Texas’ electrical grid failing and then their governor fucking leaving to go on vacation during a crisis. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/ted-cruz-cancun-power-outage/
Senator, but yeah. The electrical grid thing I wasn’t aware of until I listened to a podcast episode about it.
We were shaking our heads at that all the way over here in Europe because it was on the news. They didn’t broadcast that in the US? Find it hard to believe
Yeah if I recall they specifically avoided connecting their grid to the rest of the US to avoid federal regulations, one effect of which is that the power companies can set whatever rates they want which is how the stories of Texans being charged thousands of dollars for electricity during catastrophic events like hurricanes come about.
Freedom, I guess??