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LetMyPeopleVote

(145,538 posts)
Tue Nov 30, 2021, 03:35 PM Nov 2021

Gov. Abbott says he can 'guarantee the lights will stay on' this winter in Texas

I am wondering how Abbott can make this promise give Abbott's refusal to fix the grid




Gov. Greg Abbott promised that the state’s electric grid would be able to withstand pressures caused by any potential winter storm that occurs this year in a television interview Friday.

“Listen, very confident about the grid. And I can tell you why, for one: I signed almost a dozen laws that make the power grid more effective,” Abbott said. “I can guarantee the lights will stay on.”

After the winter storm in February that left millions across the state without power, the Legislature passed a number of bills requiring additional “weatherization” measures for companies that maintain the state’s electric grid.

But experts have expressed concerns that loopholes have allowed some natural gas providers to exempt themselves from the weatherization requirements, potentially leaving the system still vulnerable.

“Everything that needed to be done was done to fix the power grid in Texas,” Abbott said in June when he signed two of the bills.
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Gov. Abbott says he can 'guarantee the lights will stay on' this winter in Texas (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2021 OP
If the lights go out.... TheRealNorth Nov 2021 #1
I do not trust Greg and have contracted for a generator at my house LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2021 #2
We will have to white cloud Nov 2021 #3

TheRealNorth

(9,500 posts)
1. If the lights go out....
Tue Nov 30, 2021, 03:49 PM
Nov 2021

He will blame it on Biden and Green Energy.

And in all likelihood, there probably won't be a really cold coldsnap like there was last year.

white cloud

(2,567 posts)
3. We will have to
Tue Nov 30, 2021, 09:13 PM
Nov 2021

call him the "Fat Dutchman" if the light do go out again!

Remember Herman Goering during WW2 said this about the Allies & US bombing Berlin and we bombed the shit out of it shortly. LOL

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