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What happen to the electric ?
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Same thing in Nebraska for the last week. Natural gas is still the way to go. I wonder if the solar and wind scientist are the same as the qlobel warming people?
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Yep, and back in the late 70’s they were warning of an impending ice age around now. Give me coal and hydro and good old hydrocarbons any day.
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Power has been off since 2:30 this morning here in Houston. Major part of problem according to tv is 23% of Texas power comes from wind. The wind turbines are frozen and not operating. Makes those wind turbines not look like such a great idea now. Joe wants more……
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From Hastings,Ne. Had rolling blackouts today. The reason is no wind and too cold for wind farms and solar farms are covered in snow not to mention it is cloudy. Can you imagine the demand if we all had electric cars?
What are these nutty politicians and so called scientist thinking?
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Yes and this current Admin in the Outhouse (what it’s called now) are double downing on the New Green Deal. Made a good living and enough for retirement out in the West Texas Oilpatch with my Fab Company and these Idiots are trying to kill it.
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Opposing political views could quickly kill this topic and/or this forum in general. I hope we can all stay focused on our Ozone destroying Prevost coaches and not the politics related to their operation.
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Green New Deal is an idea that HASNT been legislated. False straw to lay blame
Extreme demand and failure of thermal power plants (coal, gas and nuclear) (not winterized against harsh cold) (no regulation)are to blame for Texas power failure.
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“Legislated”. Now that’s funny. It seems “Executive Order” has taken the place of that.
And TX power issues were/are due to fossil fuel plant issues??? First I’ve heard/seen of that, other than a few issues with natural gas suppliers having issues with freezing at the wellhead.
EVERY report I’ve seen or read says the major cause of the system failure (other than the extreme cold of course) was due to frozen/inoperable wind turbines, which apparently provided 23-25% of the power to TX consumers.
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actual experience. about 5 years ago we had a toyota suv that was electric/gas.. also had a gas powered lincoln=results the lincoln averaged 28mpg the toyota = 21 mpg. was nearing batt. life cost was to be $75000. Elect not there yet. Observation you can’t provide energy from thin air. I’m thinking about that….
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Preppers are looking smarter and smarter as time progresses. If one does not have a plan to survive short term without a functional public infrastructure they are at risk. Long term most of us are screwed without those services. I will take a thousand gallons of diesel over solar or wind any day. Most farmers that i know are best prepared in this regard with big diesel storage tanks and pto generators for tractors. On another thread Dick reminds us of a good point that has been discussed here before. Our coaches have big generators and big fuel tanks. We should all have a means of getting that power to our homes in a crisis.
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Nothing to see here folks.
If this bird was covered in oil the left would go nuts.
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Just a little question, how Is it when 23% of something fails and the other 77% fails also, the 23% gets the blame for the complete failure?
Perhaps the total failure was due to something else, maybe “incompetence”. Just a thought of mine.
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Roscoe what do you mean by that statement?
How does one become a prepper?
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My comment had 2 purposes. One was to steer the conversation from politics to something more practical. The second was to say that a lot of weird stuff is going on these days and these things can happen to all of us. To become a prepper I think you have to buy food from Glenn Beck. Im looking into the rules right now.
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It should be kept in focus that the TX power grid is unique. TX does not tie into the National grid to avoid regulation issues. If they had, this never would have happened as they would have been able to tap other resources in other States and Texans would have been warm and comfy. It’s not a Green vs. Oil discussion but I sure hope it becomes a discussion about the Texas isolationist mindset at the expense of its residents.
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