Re: “ERCOT warns of demand — Power brownouts may happen in extreme situations, group says,” Thursday news story. I appreciate the information in this story,...
And is conservation really such a terrible thing to promote? I personally cut my electricity usage by 60% over a 10-year period, largely by making efficiency my first concern when replacing and repairing appliances. Smarter use of thermostats and off switches can save us all plenty of money without sacrificing our future to monomaniacal fossil fuel interests.
Jenkins complains about penalizing renewables while ignoring the government mandates, abatements and subsidies they receive. These government handouts tilt the playing field of market-based energy bidding, placing conventional — and reliable — coal, gas and nuclear power at an economic disadvantage. This is a dangerous practice that the Texas Legislature is trying to correct to avoid a repeat of past grid failures.
Sen. Ted Cruz has long been an advocate of term limits. In his first term, he shut down the government costing us billions of dollars in a quixotic attempt to get President Barack Obama to cancel the Affordable Care Act. He supported the former president in his denial of the honest 2020 election results, betraying an oath to support the Constitution.
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