"Dallas Co. Judge Clay Jenkins gave a clear explanation in an @MSNBC interview about why TX is freezing in the dark. Jenkins laid the blame squarely on @GOP statewide elected officials, @GregAbbott_TX & @SecretaryPerry & the 3 member elected RR Commission.
Governors appoint
Governors appoint
@ERCOT_ISO regulators & tell them what to do. @ERCOT_ISO has regulated electric utilities w/ the sole goal of providing Lg commercial users access to cheap power. 1 way they did that is to fail to require utilities invest in winterizing generation turbines, power plants/wind
generators which is a requirement everywhere else in the country.
The RR Commissioners similarly failed to require natural gas pipeline co.'s to winterize their pipelines by burying the pipelines deeper/insulating the pipelines better. Hence pipelines, power plants, & generators
The RR Commissioners similarly failed to require natural gas pipeline co.'s to winterize their pipelines by burying the pipelines deeper/insulating the pipelines better. Hence pipelines, power plants, & generators
in TX have frozen up while they have not in other parts of the country. I doubt if these #Republican statewide elected officials are going to step forward to take responsiblity instead I’m sure they are all desperately making a list of who-else they can blame.
Joe Wells: "This is what happens when you work so hard to avoid Federal reg's. Read this again": “1 way they did that is to fail to require utilities invest in winterizing generation turbines, power plants/wind generators which is a requirement everywhere else in the country.”
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