Greg Abbott Lies About Green Energy To Deflect On Freeze Fail - UPDATE: AOC Responds

[riversedge]

Source: Crooks and Liars




2/17/21 8:07am

Texas GOP was bragging about TEXIT and seceding from the Union less than a month ago. Now they need federal help because their electrical infrastructure has been neglected by Republican "carbon pimps."

6 hours ago by John Amato


The state of Texas is suffering massive power shortages, blackouts in freezing cold, and instead of working to solve the problem, Republican Governor Greg Abbott took precious time to appear on Hannity and pretend it was Joe Biden's climate change policies that are at fault for the Texas freeze.
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Abbott told Hannity that there are few different ways Texas gets their energy, but only blamed wind turbines for their problems which again is a BIG FAT lie.

"Our wind and our solar got shut down, and they were collectively more than 10 percent of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis," Abbott said.

The Texas governor made believe that he didn't really know what ERCOT is when he said, "It was lacking power at a state-wise basis, power that was spread out by that ERCOT organization that you were talking about.".............................

Read more: https://crooksandliars.com/2021/02/texas-governor-lies-about-green-new-deal

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He reminds me of trump--takes no responsibility and shifts blame.



The failure is all yours, Greg Abbott. Is running on Fox to b*tch about AOC your way of keeping your citizens warm? #FAIL

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[riversedge]

1. UPDATE: AOC has responded. SNAP. ..........

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[LiberalFighter]

2. He gives handicapped people a bad name.

[tclambert]

3. Turns out the fossil fuel part of their power system failed worse.

Much more of the outage can be traced to the fossil fuel energy sector.

The feds warned them ten years ago about the risk of cold weather to their power infrastructure and since that time Texas Republicans have done their best to make it worse.

[gab13by13]

4. The wind turbines didn't really fail,

they weren't fitted for cold weather. Why are wind turbines operating in Iowa or Greenland? They are operating because they are winterized to 20 below zero.

[joshdawg]

5. One has to understand one thing:

There are five bat-shit crazy lunatics running Texas Government.
Abbott, Paxton, Patrick, Cornyn, and worst of all Cruz.
And yet they all seem to get elected and re-elected. Doesn't say much for the electorate in Texas.

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. Well

when The American people cannot find substance, they are usually very happy to accept 'theatre'. That is one thing he rethugs are very good at, and they use it very successfully. All one has to do is play up state loyalty and wear a white (It HAS to be white) cowboy hat. The fact that this keeps on working is so frightening that I tend not to dwell on the matter if I can help it.

[Sapient Donkey]

6. That goes against one of his own tweets in which he said it was mostly non-wind sources

that caused the many of the outages. He said himself that the gas and coal froze

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[JoeOtterbein]

7. I will certainly celebrate big time, the day AOC becomes...

...POTUS AOC!

[Snoopy 7]

9. Don't forget

What were the electric suppliers saying while the freeze was occurring? No not that the generators were failing but, that they were going to have to RAISE THEIR PRICES BECAUSE OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND. Now where do you think the rate hikes will go? No not into repair and upgrade but into the scant .01% that own the plants. They not only will reap the profits when this freeze is over but also the next time it freezes. That my friend is a guarantee.

[oasis]

10. This

^^^^^

[lagomorph777]

11. Where's the AOC response?

I can't find it in your post.