As a Texan, I can concur. That said, the failure and piss-poor government response to it makes me almost viscerally angry. Texas has promoted itself as an ener

As a Texan, I can concur. That said, the failure and piss-poor government response to it makes me almost viscerally angry. Texas has promoted itself as an energy leader, from traditional oil and gas production, to large (and growing) production of renewables, we shouldn't be having these failures. The issue for me isn't the failure of the power grid, extraordinary events happen - its that: One - it's happened before (twice before). Two - we should have had a governmental response to adequately winterize the grid. Three - the deregulated power system in Texas creates perverse incentives to building more capacity in - and power usage in Texas is growing faster than either base load or peaking capacity is. These are all governmental and regulatory failures, and ones that were both foreseeable and preventable.