My mom just said someone needs to be held accountable for this and I laughed. Love ya mom, but you need to learn a bit more.
The Dollop might be a good way to show your mom how they've always gotten away with this shit
Just send her a link to http://ercot.com so she can see how little these "energy investors" actually care about getting people power.
Dearest Chapos, I regret to inform you that this predicament has reduced me to watching a graph and praying for line go up
The DAM graph is worrying. Demand is predicted to be double supply tomorrow as the generators are shutting down in protest of the market cap of $9000. They want to do disaster capitalism and charge people $1000/day to stay warm.
Holy hell, I don't even want to think about how much damage is going to be caused by burst pipes...
Gonna be a hell of a market for plumbers and other home repair contractors.
One of the few job fields that can't be outsourced, where it's still viable to be a sole proprietor/artisan, and where you can literally look at your work at the end of the day and say you fucking made something.
No wonder the PMCs look down on them so much.
[ERCOT] have seen five of their employees, all the way up to the chief information officer and director of information technology, sent to prison for a fake billing scheme. But every step of the way, ERCOT has fought outside audits.
Nice.
Texas got a C.
They gave Texas a B+ for energy. :agony-consuming:
"Texas has established itself as the energy innovation capitol of the world. Innovation has led to dramatic growth of oil production from about 1 million barrels per day in 2011 to over 5.4 million barrels per day in 2019." Innovation is when you extract resources. :agony-yehaw:
Highways and roads got a D+, even though Texas is constantly building highways. The report suggests that even more roads should be built :agony-turbo:
Transit got a B-, even though transit sucks in Texas because of the endless sprawl. "Although transit infrastructure provides safe and effective service—a trend that is expected to continue—the system competes with individually-owned vehicles and users’ preference to drive themselves." Hmm I wonder if funding sprawl has something to do with this? What a joke of a site. Reads like an oil industry lobby pamphlet.
Edit: Just discovered that the energy grade is the highest out of all of the categories :agony-immense:
Its those DARN wind turbines! They amount for nearly 10% of Texas power, and some of them froze, and now the whole system is down!
Come, Sancho! We must vanquish these enemies of western civilization!
Someone should make a re-interpretation of Don Quixote based on contemporary US.
"Capitalist neglect meets climate change-driven winter storms"
So you know what that means, right?
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Duh, 🎵 this is all the fault of Socialism!! 🎵 (which they wanted to blame anyway)
