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Now they really have to back that up with action. If things do break, it'll look doubly bad. If things don't break, but other parts of the country do, they'll look good.

We may soon see which way it goes.

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> Plants are being regularly ordered to go into service, or remain in operation, and skip any scheduled maintenance.

If you don't schedule maintenance then your equipment will schedule it for you, usually at the least convenient time.

So true. Watch it happen right before election.

They don't need to look good though, they only need to maintain control. Doing a good job at things and winning elections based on earned confidence is one way to maintain control but not apparently the one they're going for.

No, not in Texas. They just redraw the maps so that they are guaranteed to stay in power, er, not electric power.

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