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They hate crypto, and they hate Texas, so they can take a cheap shot.

kennywinker 3y ago
Who is this they you speak of? Texas is a beautiful state, with a psychotic energy system, and a government that doesn’t represent the will of their people.
- Aloha 3y ago
  The UK has an almost identical power market. We just generate more wind and solar than anyone else.
- friend_and_foe 3y ago
  You've never been to Texas if you think it's beautiful lol. Its pretty in some places, particularly the desert and hills, but most of Texas is flat, muggy, hot, the forests are overgrown, pig farms and grain fields. Even the ocean is brown. California is beautiful. Texas is mid at best. But it has other things going for it. The energy system in Texas is one of it's strengths, the government does represent the will of the majority and is probably the main thing the state has going for it, that and energy resources. People don't move there because it's beautiful, they move there because it is governed and run pretty sensibly.
  - kennywinker 3y ago
    Citations: Gov. policy not representing the people: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-primary-election-2022-polling/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-primary-ele... Energy system insanity: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/texas-power-grid-heat-what-matters/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/texas-power-grid-hea... As for texas being a beautiful state, I have no citations, just good memories from my many visits. I will grant you that there are a growing number of oil extraction / fracking hellscape in the state.
    - friend_and_foe 3y ago
      An article only talking about what voters may disagree with the government on? Why not address the other issues that keep getting these people reelected? They're winning on some platform. The article says mask and vaccine mandates, and only mentions that the people disagreed on the mask mandates. What about the vaccine mandates? Why leave the polling on that one out? And a biased article that only cites critics. The Texas grid has had one catastrophic failure in living memory. It also has some of the cheapest electricity anywhere in the country, even the world.

Who is this they you speak of? Texas is a beautiful state, with a psychotic energy system, and a government that doesn’t represent the will of their people.

Aloha 3y ago
The UK has an almost identical power market. We just generate more wind and solar than anyone else.
friend_and_foe 3y ago
You've never been to Texas if you think it's beautiful lol. Its pretty in some places, particularly the desert and hills, but most of Texas is flat, muggy, hot, the forests are overgrown, pig farms and grain fields. Even the ocean is brown. California is beautiful. Texas is mid at best. But it has other things going for it. The energy system in Texas is one of it's strengths, the government does represent the will of the majority and is probably the main thing the state has going for it, that and energy resources. People don't move there because it's beautiful, they move there because it is governed and run pretty sensibly.
- kennywinker 3y ago
  Citations: Gov. policy not representing the people: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-primary-election-2022-polling/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-primary-ele... Energy system insanity: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/texas-power-grid-heat-what-matters/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/texas-power-grid-hea... As for texas being a beautiful state, I have no citations, just good memories from my many visits. I will grant you that there are a growing number of oil extraction / fracking hellscape in the state.
  - friend_and_foe 3y ago
    An article only talking about what voters may disagree with the government on? Why not address the other issues that keep getting these people reelected? They're winning on some platform. The article says mask and vaccine mandates, and only mentions that the people disagreed on the mask mandates. What about the vaccine mandates? Why leave the polling on that one out? And a biased article that only cites critics. The Texas grid has had one catastrophic failure in living memory. It also has some of the cheapest electricity anywhere in the country, even the world.