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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by TylerE on Thursday February 18, 2021 @10:13PM (#26189178)
But has resulted in many oil companies being based there, which means lots of money flowing to politicians, which DOES make it a political stance.

'member Halliburton? ExxonMobil?

Virtually every large US-based oil company is headquartered in Houston.

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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by walrus01 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @10:26PM (#26189265)
And certainly not just domestically either, if you look at where much of the technical expertise came from that set up the modern organization of Saudi Aramco. Houston, mostly.
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