I suspect the increase in grid availability to natural gas producers will get approved pretty fast.
Interconnecting with other grids might get wrapped up in bureaucracy.
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Oh wow. When the supply of natural gas to power plants fell, the power plants cut off power to natural gas producers, making the supply of natural gas drop more. Just amazing amounts of laziness and stupidity.
Texans will be paying for the effects of last Februaryās cold snap for decades to come, as the stateās oil and gas regulator approved a plan for natural gas utilities to recover $3.4 billion in debt they incurred during the storm.
The regulator, the Railroad Commission, is allowingutilities to issue bonds to cover the debt. As a result, ratepayers could see an increase in their bills for the next 30 years.
All these tiktok gags have reporters asking Ted Cruz if he has any vacation plans as this storm moves in.
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oh, how nice of them
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Probably has nothing to do with surge pricing.
ERCOT actually pays them to shut down.
How much of a shitshow do I need to root for to put the governorship in play in the next election?
And I have a follow up to our resident Texans. I can think of @boredsocial and @chupacabre, perhaps there are others Iām forgetting.
How big of a shitshow are you expecting? Seems like temperatures are about 20 degrees warmer this time around, and there should be less precipitation but a healthy amount of ice in some areas could be problematic.
Also in partially answering @NotBruceZ it depends where the shitshow is centered, I would think. Like hitting the Dallas suburbs could be pretty ideally targeted (sorry to any of our Dallas-area posters). There it would impact swingier districts.
Edited to add: I donāt think weāre winning the governorās race, though.
There is nothing that puts the governorship in play for democrats. New voter suppression and if it even looks like that wonāt be enough they will just pass more. They have basically limitless ability to rig elections and stay in power.
If it goes really bad, they will just get a crazier Republican governor.
San Antonio here. We should be fine. Itās right at 32 now, thereās ice on all the trees, and itāll drop to 24 tomorrow, cold but not egregious. And yet our lights have been occasionally blinking all morning.
Farther north, all bets are off. DFW schools cancelled school today and tomorrow back on Tuesday.
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Well if it makes suburban white voters vote Dem, it could. A massive power crisis again might do it, but then Abbott would still have to be on the ticket. The odds are very low, though.
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Thereās about an inch of snow here and it sounded like freezing rain most of the night so Iām definitely avoiding the insane Texas drivers on the roads but the power seems fine for now.
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The blinking stopped after lunch. It was probably wind-related. Tomorrow morningās low will be the real test now.
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Dallas/Fort Worth Suburbs checking in: Upthread reports apply here as well. Its not as bad as last year (so far).
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is it ableism to only see it as one cripple and two emotional cripples in that photo op?
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Supposed to get down to 13 here tonight, but this storm is not looking like it will last as long as last year, which was a full week.