Freezing in the Dark - the Logical Result of Terrible Public Policy
Right now, I’m typing this on my iPad sitting in front of my fireplace in my house with no power, no heat, frozen pipes in one bathroom and wearing the warmest sweater I own. I’m one of those 60% of Houstonians who got randomly picked to not have power this week because some idiot arbitrarily made that decision. Oh, and yes, my next door neighbor does have power. If you don’t have power and are looking for someone to blame for that condition, I have one question for you. Who do you vote for on Election Day? If your answer is Republicans, then my answer is to light a candle, walk into your iced up bathroom, hold up the candle to the mirror and look. The person in the mirror is who’s responsible for you freezing in the dark.
There are three major power systems in the US – the Eastern Interconnection, the Western Interconnection, and…wait for it…Texas. Why? Texas didn’t want those big, bad, federal bureaucrats telling it what to do. It’s been that way all the way back to WWII after the Federal Power Act was signed to provide regulation for interstate power transmission between states. Under that act, all power that is transmitted over state lines had to conform with federal regulations for safety, measurement, and pricing. Texas said no thanks to that, preferring to keep everything intrastate and telling surrounding states to kiss our big red butt. The big NY blackout in 1962 provided more impetus for Texas to emphasize that independence, forming ERCOT in 1965. Ironically, that acronym stands for Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which is most certainly not.
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