The race to be one of Texas' top oil and gas regulators is headed to a runoff in a wild GOP primary.
The agency has also gained renewed attention among Texans since last year's statewide blackout, a crisis that was caused, in part, by regulators' lack of oversight of the natural gas supply chain and the industry's failure to winterize.
Christian’s friendliness with the oil industry is par for the course among current-day Railroad commissioners who often see their roles not as adversarial regulators but as defenders of one of Texas' most economically important industries.Recently, the watchdog group Commission Shift publishedoutlining the depth of Railroad commissioners' financial interests in the very industries they regulate and their practice of taking campaign contributions from companies they oversee.
“I am an experienced oil and gas attorney, and my opponent is a career politician who was caught taking bribes,” she wrote in a tweet pinned to her Twitter profile. But it is Stogner’s unorthodox social media presence that earned a late burst of attention ahead of early voting when she posed semi-nude on top of a pump jack as part of a campaign ad.
On his website, he criticizes current Railroad commissioners for approving a plan passed by state lawmakers last year to pass $3.4 billion in blackout-related debt onto Texas consumers. During the blackout, as gas became scarce, its price skyrocketed. State lawmakers tasked the Railroad Commission withassociated with those high prices. The process allows gas distribution companies to pay off their suppliers by raising consumers' bills over time rather than paying in one lump sum.
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