Have you spent much time in Texas?
I lived there for 17 years.
Certainly never ran into anyone who feels the way you just described.
Or do you have some sort of political viewpoint that's influencing your opinion?
I lived there for 17 years.
Certainly never ran into anyone who feels the way you just described.
Or do you have some sort of political viewpoint that's influencing your opinion?
In your 17 years of experience were Texans demanding regulations to protect themselves, their environment, and their families? Were they refusing to elect officials who would allow corporations to exploit them?
Id argue regulations blocking deregulated connection to fed grid as at least arguably as valid an opinion as the regulated one. Regulations killed Texans because they are so obsessed with their fed grid rules theyd rather Texans die than grant ERCOT unregulated access.
It was the refusal to follow the same rules everybody else plays by that caused the problem for Texans, not the fact that rest of the country has standards and insists that they're followed.
The regulated grid works. The "we don't need rules" grid failed, and it will continue to fail Texans until they care about themselves and families enough to demand better. They don't even have to demand connection to the national grid, Texans could just demand regulations for their own grid that are even stricter than the national grid's rules and stay separate. Texas could create a system of regulations that make their grid the most well-run grid in the country.