'We are nearing a failed state in Texas':
Beto O'Rourke slams GOP leadership for
four-day blackout that has left 4.4m
without power amid Storm Uri and
clueless ERCOT CEO unable to say
when it'll be restored
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Jennifer Smith
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
2/17/2021 4:02:58 PM
The bumbling CEO of ERCOT, the energy agency in Texas responsible for the deadly blackouts that have driven people to burn furniture and accidentally poison themselves with carbon monoxide just to stay warm, said on Tuesday night he had no idea when power would be restored but claimed his agency managed to avoid an even bigger catastrophe by switching it off.(Snip) Now, furious Texans want to know why that infrastructure wasn't properly prepared, especially after a similar storm in 2011 caused the same problems. The Texas Star Tribune reports that not all of the generators in the state were upgraded after 2011
Reply 1 - Posted by:
reefdiver 2/17/2021 4:14:11 PM (No. 699586)
Yeah, like Beta is such a leader.
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Beto it's because there are those who believed your Global Warming Crap you spewed on us. When is that suppose to happen. Send some here to Austin please.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Safari Man 2/17/2021 4:19:48 PM (No. 699590)
The obvious answer is to take away everyones’ guns, ban fossil fuels, and open the border and flood the state with hot-blooded latinos to warm things up. Ah say ah say, dat seems logical.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
pinger 2/17/2021 4:21:37 PM (No. 699591)
My living in a hurricane zone, I can confidently say that apparently this dolt knows zero about the electrical grid, what it takes to completely restore power after a national disaster, and probably is oblivious to how to plug in a toaster.
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Running his fool mouth is what little Bobby does best. Everybody point and laugh at him.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
navybrat 2/17/2021 4:24:52 PM (No. 699596)
No, Robert O'Rourke. Blame the feds, especially your party, for the regulations and for not allowing states to build more fossil fuel plants to replace the old as they go down. Blame the left for highly taxing fossil fuel so that utilities have no choice but to pass on the cost to consumers and when the consumers balk, they shut the plants down and take subsidies to build more wind mills. Why spend money to upgrade generators when they are not allowed to be used. Blame the left when they are in power for trying to bankrupt the utility producers so that they have no choice but to shut down. This proves that we cannot survive on the new green deal. Windmills, solar panels and wind turbines do not work when the temperatures are in single digits and there is no sun or wind. It is going to get worse with the recent shut down of the Keystone pipe line that put many thousands of people out of work with more job losses to come. Do not tell me extreme weather like this happens only every 7 or 8 years. It happens and will happen again and it is deadly. I is also a problem in the summer with extremely high temperatures. The green deal is a scam and anyone with two brain cells understands this.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/17/2021 4:36:54 PM (No. 699608)
What’s Beto running for now?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 2/17/2021 4:38:45 PM (No. 699611)
What a dramatic ass! I heard today that climate "experts" say the Texas weather is a result of the Arctic warming, pushing cold air down into the Midwest. They come up with more excuses for regular weather.Beto is trying to be relevant when he's nothing more than a big boob know-nothing!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/17/2021 4:38:58 PM (No. 699612)
Re Beto’s obvious inadequacy in the area of energy, remember that the Green Energy Queen didn’t know how to work a garbage disposal unit when she found one in her fancy new apartment. (OK, AOC - just feed it to the pigs like you did back in Puerto Rico. Back to your roots…)
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
columba 2/17/2021 4:55:05 PM (No. 699628)
I was not aware that the weather is political.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/17/2021 4:55:29 PM (No. 699630)
Beto the opportunist. Just shut up already. The main thing Texan government is guilty of is instituting failed lefty policies. That's why we need alternatives. But hey, we are saving the planet.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Muguy 2/17/2021 5:00:22 PM (No. 699638)
Always looking for attention.
He doesn't know his butt from a hole in the ground.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 2/17/2021 5:07:47 PM (No. 699649)
Listening to a low rent, lying moron like Bobby the Fraud is definitely a failing.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mseegal 2/17/2021 5:14:18 PM (No. 699656)
#7 - He's running for Texas Governor. Hasn't announced yet, but stay tuned.....
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
SALady 2/17/2021 5:21:21 PM (No. 699665)
Demon-Rats love to politicize natural disasters!!!
But only in conservative states, or if a Republican is president!!!
Bite my hairy rear end, Beto-the faux-Mexican!!!!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 2/17/2021 5:23:48 PM (No. 699668)
1. Rick Perry, among other Texas RINOs, agreed 15 years ago that Texas forego any new nuke or natgas power plants in order to get federal funds for windmills.
2. Texas then installed 40,000 GW of windmills.
3. The windmills, now supplying 25% of Texas' power supply, failed when we needed them the most.
4. Even some coal and natgas plants shut down, and the entire Texas grid collapsed, when ERCOT bungled their management of the crisis.
To no one's surprise, the Texas RINOs have failed us....again.
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Texas already a failed state before this, Robert Francis. Too many guns there.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
tech10171968 2/17/2021 5:42:17 PM (No. 699690)
Wait, I don't get it: isn't it always the Left who keeps pushing for the elimination of fossil fuels? Aren't they the ones with this "New Green Deal"?
So how did this suddenly become the GOP's fault? I'm having trouble making this leap of logic...
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/17/2021 5:47:37 PM (No. 699694)
Who is the utility provider? If its wind turbines, its probably a Democrat. How much input did Democrats have in preparation?
What Democrats demanded all natural gas system be idiot proofed so you couldn't turn them on when the electricity went out?
I think we know who is really to blame, here.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
red1066 2/17/2021 5:57:32 PM (No. 699701)
What is a Beto? How can anyone with a name like Beto be taken seriously.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/17/2021 6:01:44 PM (No. 699706)
IT's BUTO...it's all he's got...
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Mushroom 2/17/2021 6:18:06 PM (No. 699722)
In these situations all we can expect from any politician is finger pointing.
In the long run the *only* thing a Pol does is pass laws blocking actions needed to mitigate these problems without thinking forward.
We got slammed in the MidWest a couple of years ago with a 100yr flood. We took the same berating and it was because the Corp of Engineers backed off. We survived, the crops washed away for 1 year had a new deposit of silt and nutrients that will last another 50yrs (Think that Cotton crop in Ark magically grows?)
IF you were to leave the utility co with a single task..."Provide reliable power" They may very well do that. BUT if you tell them that you have to build wind turbines (and here's the money) or solar farms..and we get to add that to the total grid input...well it's like a bean counter taking over a company. It looks good on paper and to investors, but doesn't do the actual job.
Last (I promise), There is the iced line problem, I haven't heard much about it, but the lines get loose over the years and the weight of ice just breaks them. In our cold areas it happens often enough that the lines are replaced on a regular basis just from the damage, Ya'll in Texas have decades of iffy lines that will fall with an ice storm. Bless you,just not a lot of prevention can help that.
Stay warm, Don't use the stove for heat, leave the generator OUTSIDE, Pick up and take the Kerosene heater outside to refuel (as temping as it might be). Cuddle up but *please* do not try to recreate a Star Wars Parody ala Family Guy...it's been done, and it was good. Tell stories! I actually had a relative beg me to visit so I could tell 'war' stories of the places I visited. Listen to Dad, he might have an embarrassing thing to say about Mom..and trust me. Mom has a few of her own. Parents, now would be a really nice time to learn the latest verbiage..Is rad bad? I have forgotten.
MOST of all..have fun, ignore the politicians, for they don't act in YOUR best interests. Ultimately *YOU* are responsible for your own actions, they darn sure aren't going to take the heat!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 2/17/2021 6:23:45 PM (No. 699724)
Beto is a work of art. Hope he is one of the millions who lost power. Remember it’s him and the likes of him who are pushing green.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/17/2021 6:52:14 PM (No. 699747)
Beto wouldn't have a clue what to do, except to smoke pot and scream at the sky.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/17/2021 6:58:24 PM (No. 699751)
It’s the so-called Climate Change political agenda that brought the failure of the Texas energy system. The Democrats are now running to hide their climate change agenda, blaming what happened in Texas on the Republicans. But it has been the Democrats who have been pushing to shutdown all fossil fuel run energy and for the country to rely solely on what they call renewable energy, that consists mostly of solar panels and wind driven turbines, but when the solar panels are covered with snow and the weather is cloudy, or when the wing driven turbines freeze up, what do you have, as we see today in Texas, no energy and a lot of very cold people. Chances are that is not going to be a big winner for the Democrats in the near future.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
jacksin5 2/17/2021 7:01:23 PM (No. 699754)
So now Beto is an expert on the State's Electric Grid? I'm sure the utility told the Governor, And the GOP leadership that the deliberately chose not to spend the money to weatherproof the grid to keep power flowing. Beto, AOC, et al are just following the Dems mantra "don't let a crisis go to waste".
Scroom.
4 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
edgar 2/17/2021 7:28:14 PM (No. 699772)
When I lived in NH we had an ice storm and power was out for days. The power company brought in trucks and personnel from other states, but it takes time. Not sure what Beto is expecting, but as long as the snow and ice continue, it only gets worse, not better. Once the weather breaks, then crews can do something. He's such a jackwagon.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Muguy 2/17/2021 7:38:56 PM (No. 699783)
#25--- Right on!
Socialists always try to blame republicans for ever ill
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Kate318 2/17/2021 8:15:12 PM (No. 699806)
To all the states who are part of this energy alliance I say, “Guys, if we’re going to secede, we’re going to have to do better than this.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
downnout 2/17/2021 8:19:17 PM (No. 699811)
Does anyone know what Beto has been doing for the past 18 months?? Other than living off his wife’s money, I mean.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Nimby 2/17/2021 9:49:16 PM (No. 699880)
For those you do not know- El Paso from where Robert Francis O’Rourke hails is not even a part of the Texas state grid. El Paso county experienced minimal power disruption. Once again BETO LIES!!!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
PostAway 2/17/2021 10:21:22 PM (No. 699896)
This from a man who eats dirt. Literally.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Penney 2/17/2021 11:15:42 PM (No. 699932)
Dems and their daffy environmentalist politics have brought us to this point by forcing their windmill & other energy fiascos upon us at taxpayers' expense! These formerly unproved energy sources have now proved just what failures they really are for consistent, reliable energy. How could so many have fallen for their unproved climate control spiel?! Rush always warned about the power hungry globalist politicos who were using the weather as their bogus ticket to ride! Lefty pols simply lie for votes and only after the fact do some realize what suffering results from their policies, which most often prove to fail. But the dems rely on their media spinners to cover for them. ...
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/17/2021 11:29:39 PM (No. 699944)
We were without power or water for 3 days during the worst cold spell since 1903. People were sitting in their cars, running them to keep warm all day. And all this because Bill Magness "turned the electricity off". What a total fool, with nothing but space in his head! The Governor is trying to blame ERCOT. Our Gov sent in the National Guard. I guess he thought we were being invaded by Democrats. Our Governor should have fired Magness, instead of asking him to resign, and put in a new General. We needed leadership right then, not a commission to look into the problem. Our Houston Mayor disappeared with his wear your masks, wash your hands useless messages. See ya guy. Go back to your bribe taking, and leave the sane people alone. I never heard anything from the useless stay home remonstrating 25 year old County Judge who came from somewhere else. What a total failure of officials and energy policy in Texas!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
judy 2/18/2021 4:25:11 AM (No. 700050)
ERCOT...energy reliability council of Texas should be renamed....Would DM report this if it happened in NY??
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
hershey 2/18/2021 10:12:27 AM (No. 700365)
People in Texas are having such a hard time and so sorry for that, but...couple of suggestions
Get a Whole House Generator (installs outside, works off propane) Generac makes them
Get a wood stove and have someone competent install it.
Stock up on food/water and wood.
Preparation is the key to surviving a problem...first snow storm in 18 years...ready...Hurricane bearing down (regular in Tx -) ready
But get ready to be labelled a 'terrorist'...bunch of wankers...no one is responsible for you but you...the gummint sure as he%% isn't doing it...
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Why would utilities winterize their equipment when Global Warming said cold winters would be a thing of the past? Ignore maintenance and pocket the difference; roll the dice that nothing will go wrong. And now Skateboard Bobby the Fake Mexican is back on the tabletop, trying to raise his profile.