Re:Texas Senate passes bill aiming to counter federal subsid...
by a3n on Thursday April 08, 2021 @06:30AM
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Nah. As their lieutenant governor said in recent months about covid, there are more important things than living.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=texas+%22more+important+things+tha...
Winterizing would have cost money. The facilities are insured (I assume).
Whoever froze or asphyxiated to death were merely acceptable casualties in the Texas electricity cost/benefit equation. Texas power is the Ford Pinto of electricity.
Except that in this case, it happens, it happened 10 years ago and the Federal commission recommended winterisation [0] to prepare for such cold spells. It happened 32 years ago as well [1].
Shouldn't one of the richest states of the USA be prepared for an event that has happened at least twice in 30 years and that will happen again, one that not only causes extreme disruptions to its economy but deaths and suffering as well?
[0] https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/Reportonthe...
[1] https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/A-t...