Texas Power Outages

Just curious to others take on the recent problems in Texas.

They have been warned more than once that there could be a problem. To fix the problem costs money. Someone in charge choose not to spend the money to fix the problem. In turn they have been paying less for their power than other states. Now shit hits the fan and the other 49 states are supposed to pay for their problem. Kind of BS.

Not about not helping them because the average Joe had no say. More about knowing you have a problem and not taking steps to fix it and then asking other to pay for your problem.

This seems considerably different than when a huge storm with tornados hit Tennessee and wiped out tons of towns. They didnt have an opportunity to pay more and make changes and thus avoid the problem.

Also the variable price for electricity seems bad. Once again the guy on variable plan paid less and then when shit hit the fan now they gave up their savings and then some. Not much different than taking out an adjustable rate mortgage and you are the genius bragging to your friends about a low rate.....then rates go up and you are paying way more and no options feeling you have been screwed.

It seems like an interesting issue but one of those issues that immediately becomes politicized and makes me just not care.

They should bring Enron back.

PatsFan1283 said:

It seems like an interesting issue but one of those issues that immediately becomes politicized and makes me just not care.

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Wasnt intended to be political...ideally it doesnt go down that road. We all know already the government already spends way too much money. More about if we had control what would be fair / right solution.

Northern Star said:

Wasnt intended to be political...ideally it doesnt go down that road. We all know already the government already spends way too much money. More about if we had control what would be fair / right solution.

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Unfortunately news and most info that gets presented to the citizens gets washed with political bs into it. Lots of finger pointing and talking about the problem and little said about fixing it or preventing it from happening again.

Other 49 states should tell Texas that their thoughts and prayers are with them but not a penny will be sent to them. They made their own mess, let them clean it up. Texans always looking for handouts.

big wang said:

Other 49 states should tell Texas that their thoughts and prayers are with them but not a penny will be sent to them. They made their own mess, let them clean it up. Texans always looking for handouts.

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Handouts? Like all the libtarded states getting bailed out with the pork filled “Covid” stimulus package coming up? States like California, New York and Washington are about to get a shit load of handouts for their disgusting mismanagement of funds and their retarded covid policies that have wrecked their local economies.

Let’s slow down with the handouts angle.