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Re:Clearing price for supplying power to Texas grid –$31.65 by Camillo on Sunday February 21, 2021 @04:35AM (#26212138)
> If the market solves all problems why would the government even need to mandate winterization?

But Texas has a government and it _hadn't_ mandated winterization. So it doesn't seem to have done better than the market in practice.

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Re:Clearing price for supplying power to Texas grid –$31.65 by ceejayoz on Sunday February 21, 2021 @07:37AM (#26213038)
The party controlling Texas’s government openly opposes the use of government to solve issues like this.
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