TEXAS: ...how the rich use climate change to divide us

[Oscar]

Texas freeze shows a chilling truth – how the rich use climate change to divide us

[ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... n-new-deal ]

February 21, 2021

QUOTE: "Rubbish. The loss of power from frozen coal-fired and natural gas plants was six times larger than the dent caused by frozen wind turbines. Texans froze because deregulation and a profit-driven free market created an electric grid utterly unprepared for climate change.

In Texas, oil tycoons are the only winners from climate change. Everyone else is losing badly. Adapting to extreme weather is necessary but it’s no substitute for cutting emissions, which Texas is loath to do. Not even the Lone Star state should protect the freedom to freeze."

[Oscar]

How Texas became a third world country

[ https://www.palmerreport.com/community/ ... try/36821/ ]

February 21, 2021

QUOTE: "The answer is really quite simple: Republican Party governance. Under various Republican administrations over the last several decades, Texas declared independence from federal energy regulations, and except for border towns like El Paso, broke away from the national power grid. Texas was going to have its own power show. Their attitude was: “Hell, we’ve got all the oil, gas, and money we need! We don’t need no damn Yankees telling us how to run our power system!”