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Related: About this forumTexans has been asked/told to conserve power due to grid issues
The Texas legis did effectively nothing to fix the Texas grid
Link to tweet
Throck
(2,520 posts)It takes years of construction and a decade of modeling and planning. Politicians live from election to election and rarely fathom anything outside their election cycle. This is why much of the US infrastructure has been so badly neglected.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,631 posts)The rest of the country does not have these issues. Greg Abbott did virtually nothing to work on this issue in part because he gets a ton of campaign contributions from the power industry
CrispyQ
(36,533 posts)SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)Because Most of them voted for this leadership.
Sucks for us Democrats, but Texas is a red state after all, and so it should be No Surprise when they act like a red state.
hurl
(938 posts)I think we are not so much a red state as an apathetic state. Turnout historically has been abysmal, with interest only beginning to increase in the last couple of cycles. Republicans always get their fanatical base out (because fear and anger), whereas our base tends to check out - especially in non-presidential cycles. We have been under GOP rule so long many Ds were demoralized figuring their vote wouldn't matter anyway. Beto, in part, may have gotten their attention showing we can be competitive. Long way to go though.
Bristlecone
(10,135 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)RainCaster
(10,926 posts)Did they lie to us?
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,631 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,631 posts)DBoon
(22,401 posts)Is a call to conserve energy something that Texans will accept? Is individual sacrifice for the common good a part of people's culture?
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,631 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)after the fuck up by the state this past winter, my GF and I are not taking any chances.
we are getting a transfer switch installed in the house.
power goes out, we plug the genie into the switch, it powers the house.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,631 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,631 posts)Link to tweet
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