Did he teleport from his house in Texas to the airport in Texas? Maybe a helicopter picked him up. And 2 Houston police officers were requested by his staff to escort him through the airport. Sure they couldn’t have doing something more meaningful.
Honest question here about Texas and green energy
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Texas Republican Senator Jon Cornyn said that there are 7 Hispanic babies now being born in Texas for every non-Hispanic baby. I suspect that Ted Cruz will have a VERY difficult time getting re-elected in 2024.
I have no faith that electing democrats would have changed anything. Winterizing in texas is just not a huge priority until after the problem smacks you in the face.
Is Robert Francis O'Rourke doing that? That's great! Maybe he's elevated his humanity since drunkenly causing an auto accident and trying to leave the scene. Perhaps his charity work will keep him distracted from mothballing the 2nd Amendment.
That's not the point I made. When there's no competition, you have no pressure to deliver for your constituents. When you have no competition, why should you go the extra miles for the people you serve? You won't because there's no need to. But, if you have competition, you will find the issue that distinguishes you from the other guy/gal.
Actually, he did say stay home and off the roads to protect yourself and everyone.
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So a storm 10 years ago that caused one death in texas?
I equate it to SC. We have big ice storms every few years, and we lose lives. We lose power, once I lost it for 2 or 3 days. We still have barely any salt trucks or snow plows. It's just low priority for southern states.
And I think it would be low priority for Democrats in southern states too.
Hey, I can't disagree with you about the police officers, but you know what he meant about staying home in that interview.
When both sides of the competition look at winterizing in a southern climate as low priority, it's barely going to be addressed regardless of who is elected.
Why when something happens it is governments fault and typically one person in government. It is only Governor Abbot‘s fault because Trump isn’t President anymore. For four years, he was blamed on every naturally occurring event. Now Abbott.
Here is a clue - Abbott wasn’t in office when the grid was built. He doesn’t even have direct control over it.
Like elsewhere, other than the common defense of country and emergency services preparedness, the government is inefficient and futile to competently run anything else. Then, as Americans, we complain they do a crappy job when we know they can’t do the job in the first place.
The bad part is Americans have become dependent on the government for everything. So, the real fault of all this incompetence is the American people who think government can do things efficiently.
Here is a clue - Abbott wasn’t in office when the grid was built. He doesn’t even have direct control over it.
Like elsewhere, other than the common defense of country and emergency services preparedness, the government is inefficient and futile to competently run anything else. Then, as Americans, we complain they do a crappy job when we know they can’t do the job in the first place.
The bad part is Americans have become dependent on the government for everything. So, the real fault of all this incompetence is the American people who think government can do things efficiently.
Not necessarily. With climate obviously changing, attitudes and positions change, at least for some people.
So that's why those southern states that arent deep red are all stocking up on snow plows?
It's not just this power grid issue. As I alluded to earlier, it's on a multitude of issues. As long as one-party dominates, there's no incentive by incumbent politicians to improve the quality of life for his/her constituents.
I don’t have a problem with anything you said. My main issue is if that’s the case then make the government smaller but that really doesn’t fit the agenda of either party.
I can agree with the sentiment but disagree with trying to lump this situation in.
Obviously, we can't know for sure on this situation. What we do know is that the state of Texas has failed to reinvest in its deregulated power grid system, as the current power system has miserably failed its citizens.
Agree on Southern states not investing in large numbers of snow plows etc. Not worth it. Disagree that we should expect power and water to be lost at the level it has been in Texas anywhere in America. Other Southern states don’t seem to lose their power supplies in cold weather.
Who said it? “why aren’t customers entitled to a refund when they lose money on stocks?”
What naturally occurring event was Trump blamed for? Abbott may not have been in office when the grid was built or deregulated but it doesn’t give him a pass to go on TV and lie about the situation. Texas also has one of the least regulated energy industries so what you are seeing is no government intervention and private industry at it’s finest.
Classic USA. People are suffering and dysfunctional politicians weigh in with their assorted BS.
Agree - that is why I’ve always said that 537 people in Washington only care about 537 people in Washington. They only care about others if it makes them more powerful. In others words, they don’t care about the average American (in most cases).
This comment nagged at me, because I'm pretty sure it's been addressed before.
This stat is very wrong. While demographics are shifting, it is no where near 7 times.
The birth rate in 2017 was 1.4 hispanic births to 1 white birth, much less all non hispanic births.
This quote is either a misquote or the Cornyn misspoke badly.
The climate, wildfires and every hurricane. Didn’t you know it was his fault? If you didn’t, then you didn’t watch mainstream news or social media. And in that case, I applaud you.
First off AOC is wrong - she is a huge proponent for green energy and so she will always color things about that in green energy's favor. But the truth is, even the TX state managers of the green energy they DO have - solar and wind - generally ratchet down those sources in the harshest winter times because they are most effective during the hot summer climes to help out with high energy consumption for air conditioners, etc. So while the GENERAL numbers of energy source from green energy in TX is around 10-13%, it drops down to as low as 7% during the winter time like right now. So it even has LESS of an impact on what happened in Texas right now....
So, thinking that everything "went bad when solar panels and wind turbines froze up" is just more false uneducated hillbilly followings of FAUX News, OAN, and Newsmax. Its a non-story, and of COURSE it is what they specialize in: False News. The main reason is due to natural gas shortages and natural gas systems freezing up.
It is amazing to me the poor, low level of intelligence so many citizens have in this country today, that they watch the TX Governor claim that it's due to green energy, then stated on the SAME INTERVIEW with Hannity that green energy only makes up 10% of the total energy supply for TX. And yet NO ONE even asks the follow up, "if green energy makes up 10%, then what THE HELL makes up the other 90%, and WHY THE HELL CANNOT 90% OF THE SUPPLY KEEP THE STATE FROM SHUTTING DOWN??????"
Or why no one even tries to ask, "IF 10% OF GREEN ENERGY SHUT DOWN THE STATE, AND NO ONE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS EVEN LIKES GREEN ENERGY BECAUSE TEXAS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE OIL STATE AND THEREFORE THE #1 FOSSIL FUEL STATE, THEN WHY THE HELL ON EARTH WAS THE ENTIRE STATE ENERGY GRID SYSTEM BUILT ON THE BACK OF JUST 10% OF ANYTHING, AND WHY WAS IT BUILT ON THE BACK OF GREEN ENERGY WHICH THE STATE OF TEXAS HATES SO MUCH, TO BEGIN WITH??!!!?!!?!?"
If people had half the brain necessary to ask such simple questions, then they'd know that all the BS the Republican leaders in Texas were saying, was just that: bullshit. Of course, right after Abbott left the Hannity program, he admitted to local Texas news that OF COURSE green energy sources like solar and wind had NOTHING to do with the energy shutdown - it was natural gas, a fossil fuel source.
The bigger over-riding issue was the state energy leadership did not prepare for something that generally in the past didn't happen for decades, if not centuries. But if they weren't so busy trying so hard to laugh in the face of global warming and other natural climate patterns in recent decades, then perhaps they would have had the foresight to upgrade and improve their grid system to better deal with such an event: the days of 100-year flood, drought, and snowfall events happening only every 100 years is at an end these days.....
Nobody blamed him for those things happening. There were criticisms about his response to them after they happened but no one said he was responsible for the events themselves. It’s not like someone claimed there was a Trump laser creating wildfires.
I wouldn’t rule that out but he wasn’t blamed for COVID either just the response to it. No different than what we are seeing now.Was covid man made?
Lost in all this partisan BS is the concern for the people who are suffering. You remember them, right the small people....um most of us. Blow the politics out your arse and fix the problem. That is what they are paid to do. Its not a party problem, its an elitism problem.
I might be inclined to agree if people didnt try to pin every single covid death on him. Not that there could be less, but that every single death was blood on his hands.
Do you really think the people that are burning their furniture to survive give a rats ass what Ted Cruz or AO freaking C think? No, they just want to be warm.
Honestly, I don't know how accurate it is. I did hear Cornyn say it. For sure, we all know that demographics in Texas is changing, becoming more Hispanic and less white.
Both parties have gotten too big to do anything for the people. It’s all about the Super PACs and towing the party line. We need a legitimate third party option desperately in this country.
You getting something for nothing. Being taken care of by your owners, the Democratic Party. It’s not the best but unfortunately that’s all there is.
Because powerlines were down affecting an area of because power generation facilities were down affecting a large percentage of the entire state? Big difference.
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