Monday, February 22, 2021

Another liberal media narrative debunked

Liberals demanded that Texas energy grid was unprepared for winter storm 

Let's just start with the criticism that Texas Grid was simply not able to handle the surge after the winter storm. This, according to everyone involved is not actually the case. They have and had the ability within the grid to handle this sort of surge, had they been able to increase their overall grid capacity by increasing their fossil fuel capacity.

But as it stands, there are Federal regulations that require Texas (and other states) to be using a certain percentage of alternate energy. In order to get around that, Texas had to make a special emergency request to the Biden Administration's Department of Energy. Texas made the request a week in advance of the storm, hoping to get a head start and keep ahead of this.

But the Biden Administration Department of Energy turned them down. They stated that it was more important to follow the Green Energy Standards than prepare for an emergency.


Had Texas (who has an independent power grid) been allowed to actually control their own power grid without Federal oversight, it is likely that none of this would have happened. It would appear that cause for these power outages had actually nothing to do with Ted Cruz traveling to Cancun or the fact that Texas was unprepared. It apparently has to do with the fact that they simply do not have control over their own power Grid.

Obviously many people on the left used this incident to make fun of the idea of Texas wanting to secede from the union, because their own power grid couldn't take on a winter storm. The reality is that this sort of thing actually fuels the concept that Texas would have been better off without Federal oversight. 

So far the Federal Government denied their request to up their fossil fuel capacity short term to avoid this, and then after the disaster took place, they denied a good portion of their emergency disaster requests (only a portion of the counties were approved by Biden).  This denial took place in spite of the fact that Federal oversight and an unwillingness to budge probably caused most of these problems.

32 comments:

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

This wouldn't have helped. They had to shut down generators because of lack of running water because their pipes froze. Their pipes froze because Texas doesn't connect to other grids in order to avoid regulations like insulation. This is more blame game blaming green energy.

rrb said...




So Biden* fucked Texas just because he could.

Shocker.





C.H. Truth said...

Well Rat...

the letter stands on it's own. Other sources are claiming that some concessions were eventually made to fossil fuels, but only with an increase in the cost (which is why some people are complaining about massive bills).

As of right now, Biden has not:

- Been to Texas
- Held any sort of national address regarding Texas
- Talked about Texas in a recent Town Hall
- Approved disaster relief for 177 counties that requested it
- dedicated a single Mario Cart victory to Texas

Could you imagine how the Press would be treating Trump if there was a natural disaster in a blue state and he refused to hardly even acknowledge it?

Suppose the Washington Post would praise him on a low key approach?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

When a President travels to a state like Texas Texas requires massive government security spending

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Lock him up! In a unanimous decision




The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an effort by former President Trump's lawyers to block Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance from enforcing a subpoena for eight years of his personal and financial tax returns.

Why it matters: It was the last legal hurdle in the former president's long-running legal battle to shield his tax returns from prosecutors.

The big picture: Vance first subpoenaed Trump's accounting firm Mazars USA in 2019 as part of a criminal investigation into the Trump Organization for potential tax and bank-related fraud, which the New York Times reports has intensified in recent months.

What they're saying: "The work continues," Vance tweeted Monday morning, minutes after the Supreme Court ruling.

This story is breaking news.

rrb said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

When a President travels to a state like Texas Texas requires massive government security spending


oh, so suddenly this is an obstacle.

got it.

LOL.

geezus alky, the extent that you will go to make excuses for this drooling retard.

THWAP!!!


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Biden stated that if he visited Texas it would interfere with the recovery process.


You omitted that on purpose

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court denied former President Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to keep New York prosecutors from seeing his financial records, issuing a one-sentence order Monday with no noted dissents.

His attempt to get the Supreme Court to protect him has failed.

rrb said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

Biden stated that if he visited Texas it would interfere with the recovery process.



well there it is.

the declaration that excuses fucking EVERYTHING.

"My presence would interfere!" "Therefore I must stay home and have nappy time."

alky, you're a fucking hack. if Trump had ignored this to the extent Biden* has you'd be going fucking APESHIT.

Commander-in-Thief Biden said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

When a President travels to a state like Texas Texas requires massive government security spending



Looks like we already spent nearly a half a billion dollars on troops and razor wire around the White House.

Would have been a lot cheaper sending him to Texas

Or to Mexico

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The former is responsible for a half a billion dollars on troops and razor wire around the White House.

He incited Insurrection and the would cause people to hang Joe Biden and Kamala on the Rose Garden.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Just keep doing the fact checking on this.

Meanwhile,
Anger Grows at Texas Governor After Deadly Storm
February 22, 2021 at 6:36 am
Taegan Goddard quoting the Washington Post:

"Critics have charged that the Abbott administration’s response to the storm has at times resembled the government failures after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005.

“The anger was palpable, with petitions circulating online demanding the resignations of Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).”'

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

ALSO MEANWHILE:

Supreme Court Rejects Appeal by Pennsylvania GOP
10:17 am EST Taegan Goddard quotes
The Philadelphis Inquirer:
“The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal of Pennsylvania’s mail-ballot deadline extension in the 2020 election, declining to take up a Republican attempt to severely limit courts’ ability to oversee how elections are run,” the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

“It also denies a Republican attempt to significantly shift the election law landscape by essentially shutting out courts from making changes to election procedures. The U.S. Constitution gives state legislatures the power to decide how elections are run, but that has in the past been understood to mean the normal legislative process, including sign-off from governors and judicial review of the law.”

AND

Supreme Court ALLOWS Release of Trump Tax Returns
10:00 am Taegan Goddard quotes CNN

“The Supreme Court cleared the way for a New York prosecutor to obtain former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, dealing a massive loss to Trump who has fiercely fought to shield his financial papers from prosecutors,” CNN reports.

“The documents will be subject to grand jury secrecy rules that restrict their public release.”

CNBC:
“The decision, the second time the nation’s highest court has weighed in on the matter, was announced in an order with NO NOTED DISSENTS. The news further imperils the ex-president, who is facing investigations in New York and elsewhere.”

POOR, POOR GUY.

Commander-in-Thief Biden said...

Roger Amick said...
The former is responsible for a half a billion dollars on troops and razor wire around the White House.


"on troops" I'm thinking you meant spending and no Trump is not responsible for that. He didn't authorize that nor did he send the troops to sleep out in a parking garage. Then bring them cookies. That's all on Biden.

"He incited Insurrection and the would cause people to hang Joe Biden and Kamala on the Rose Garden."

another beaut of a sentence. No he told people to peacefully and patriotically protest. Joe wasn't anywhere around and I'm not sure about cum allah. Not sure why Nancy didn't authorize the security needed. Hopefully she will be asked under oath.

Get Help, the TDS didn't end when Trump peacefully left.

And it appears to grow when you are left alone in a room.

With a tv.

JamesNewLeaf's Fucking Daddy said...


I see the POS "pastor" is still faithfully worshiping GODdard

What will he believe next?

Whatever Goddard publishes.

And whenever he publishes it.

ROFLMFAO !!!



I am his daddy !!!



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

His attempt to protect himself from the Supreme Court decision and protect himself from prosecution failed spectacularly.

Caliphate4vr said...

see the POS "pastor" is still faithfully worshiping GODdard

What will he believe next?

Whatever Goddard publishes.

And whenever he publishes it.

ROFLMFAO !!


Incapable of independent so he spams shit no one reads

C.H. Truth said...

When a President travels to a state like Texas Texas requires massive government security spending

Obviously only when a Democratic President travels does it cause an excuse (er, um issue) for them. If it was Bush or Trump, the expectations would be that they need to be there, on the ground, showing support.


Either way, Roger...

Can you explain why he cannot hold a National Address, address it at his Town Halls (or Town Hall as it were), or even go on a Sunday Morning show and talk about it?

Can you explain why he only approved a fraction of the disaster relief?


Are those "security issues" as well?

Anonymous said...

"Incapable of independent so he spams shit no one reads" Cali

Correct.

James attempted to talk about Economic, looked more foolish then Alky.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Anybody got any articles about Texans criticizing Biden?

Anonymous said...

Since Biden took office gasoline is up 50 cents.

Home heating cost have skyrocketed, wait for those bills to hit in the 37 effected States.

Home Heating on the East Coast is crazy, IF it is available to be delivered.

Propane is up 10% over The same period.

"The Biden Effect" The exceptional spike in energy costs.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Fact check

The steep decline in energy generated by fossil fuels and nuclear power plants was largely responsible for the power outages in Texas during the deep freeze that recently gripped the state, according to the operators of the state’s power grid.

Despite that fact, several high-profile conservative figures — including the state’s governor — have wrongly placed the blame for power outages on wind turbines and have tied the issue to the Green New Deal, legislation Democrats proposed in 2019 with the aim of creating jobs and significantly reducing the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. It didn’t pass in either the House or the Senate, but its tenets are still popular among progressives. President Joe Biden has supported its framework.

Electric service trucks line up after a snow storm on Feb. 16 in Fort Worth, Texas. Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Feb. 16, “This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America. … Our wind and our solar, they got shut down and they were collectively more than 10% of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power in a statewide basis.”

The host of another Fox News show went even further. Tucker Carlson started a segment on his Feb. 15 show, saying, “The Green New Deal has come, believe it or not, to the state of Texas.” Meanwhile, a graphic showing a frozen water feature in the “splash and play kids zone” of a Dallas-area hotel played over his shoulder — it looked vaguely like a windmill.

Later, Carlson said, “Green energy inevitably means blackouts. … Green energy means a less reliable power grid. Period. It means failures like the ones we’re seeing now in Texas. … It’s science.”

Other public officials echoed these claims — Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Rep. Andy Barr of Kentucky and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia all weighed in on Twitter — and social media posts followed suit, blaming the outage on wind turbines and decrying the Green New Deal.

But, as we said, the bulk of the deficit in the energy supply was due to frozen infrastructure for natural gas, not wind.

“There is significantly more megawatts in that thermal unit category than in the renewable category,” Dan Woodfin, senior director of system operations for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, said of the outages at a Feb. 16 press briefing. ERCOT runs the grid that serves most of Texas, and the “thermal unit category” includes natural gas, coal and nuclear power.

Indeed, data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration — see the adjacent EIA graph — show that in the early morning hours of Feb. 15, natural gas generation dropped 23% by 4 a.m., a total of about 10,000 megawatts on a system that was running about 65,000 megawatts in total at midnight. That morning ERCOT started rolling blackouts.

While the Texas energy supply includes a mixture of sources, the largest share comes from natural gas. More than 40% of the state’s energy came from natural gas in 2020, according to a recent ERCOT report. The second largest share is wind, at 23%, then coal, at 18%.

So, it’s true that wind plays a significant role in Texas’ power supply — the state actually generates more wind energy than any other state in the nation — but there’s no indication that wind energy was the primary cause of the power outages in Texas.

rrb said...


Blogger Roger Amick said...

Fact check



FACT CHECK: the alky get's stomped on one thread so he flees to another.

FACT CHECK: TRUE.

THWAP!!!


Anonymous said...

Wind Power in Texas had a 60 % Failure Rate.

Sure you going to get your life on it Alky?

Wait, nevermind you don't get a direct billing with your name on it do you?

Room #666

Anonymous said...

💯 True, True, True, True

"FACT CHECK: the alky get's stomped on one thread so he flees to another.

FACT CHECK: TRUE."

He runs, he can't debate , he has no skill or ability.

JamesNewLeaf's Fucking Daddy said...

JamesNewLeaf said...
Anybody got any articles about Texans criticizing Biden?


How unself-aware are you ?

There may not be any on political_lire but there are thousands from the oil and gas state that exist. And Texans LOVE freedom and America FIRST and border security.

Bubble boy just won't run into them where he frequents.

He supports America last.

ROFLMFAO !!!

Commonsense said...

The former is responsible for a half a billion dollars on troops and razor wire around the White House.

That would be the Speaker of the house.

Commonsense said...

"Texas is paying the price." Chuck Schumer/

Anonymous said...

The Dark Winter President promise $2,000, well it shrunk to $1400, then for far far fewer people.
Socialism (Biden) is a less generous then Capitalism (Trump).

Caliphate4vr said...

As in California, Texas’s energy scarcity is largely artificial: The state produces an extraordinary amount of natural gas, but there has been a woeful underinvestment in infrastructure ranging from pipelines to winterizing equipment at utilities. You may as well not have the fuel at all if you can’t get it to where it’s needed or use it once it’s there.

What Texas has invested in is renewables, especially wind. These have performed especially poorly: The state’s electric-grid regulator reports that though wind and solar still make up a relatively small share of the state’s overall energy mix, they accounted for 40 percent of the capacity shut down by the storm: Out of the 45 gigawatts that went dark, 18 gigawatts were from wind and solar.

Wind is in many ways a good bet for Texas, especially in the western and northern parts of the state, the Saudi Arabia of gales. The sunny parts of the state also generate a fair bit of solar power, which also is welcome. The problem is that these power sources are unreliable. Solar panels don’t work with a couple of inches of snow on top of them, and an icy storm can cause those massive wind turbines to freeze up and stop working. As of right now, most of those Texas turbines are not functioning power sources — they are modern art. . . .

The Left wants to use the threat of climate change as a license to remake the entire economy and government along its preferred lines — energy policy, yes, but also everything from transportation to architecture, and from labor law to foreign relations and trade. The argument for replacing natural-gas electricity with wind and solar is that reducing our use of fossil fuels could, if the practice were widespread enough, help to mitigate the effects of climate change already underway.

Indy Voter said...

Ummm...

The Texas request was submitted on February 14. The wave of shutoffs began in the early hours of February 15, so this request did not occur a week in advance of the event.

Also, much of the state experienced a similar cold event just ten years ago, and knew what needed to happen to avoid it happening again. They blew off making those improvements, and weren't prepared for this event. The 2011 event was worse than 2021, but mainly affected New Mexico and west Texas. Temperatures plunged to nearly 40 below, and reached -20 in Santa Fe. Much of New Mexico had its gas shut off for days. There was another cold snap in 2013 or 2014 as well, but that may have largely missed Texas.

The Texas power grid is set up to maximize profit opportunities for power plant operators, not to reliably provide power in the face of a system wide calamity. We saw the consequences of that clearly past week.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Profit over safety is the Republican primary philosophy.