“Texas officials have warned they may need to use rolling blackouts to ease the strain on the state's power grid this winter, despite the same strategy resulting in over 200 deaths during a previous storm. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas said it may need to employ controlled outages if temperatures plunge below freezing for days on end as they did in February 2021.”
Translation: When Republicans “fixed the grid” they actually were lying — again.
Has the grid been fixed?
“No, the Texas electric grid isn’t fixed, if by fixed you mean guaranteed to work perfectly in all weather conditions. But there have been some improvements on the Texas grid after the storm of 2021 that should increase its reliability in extreme weather conditions.”
In fact it is SO NOT FIXED we’ve had rolling blackouts during SUMMER AND WINTER since the Great Snowpocalyse of 2021. What we HAVE had is a PR snow job by Republicans.
https://justenergy.com/blog/were-there-any-improvements-on-the-texas-grid-after-the-storm
So Not Fixed does not seem helpful.
Worse, there is only PRETENSE anyone actually gives a fuck. Or cares that Texans died.
Anything that has passed has been purely aspirational — if someone shells out the bucks, GREAT, but we won’t MAKE anyone do it.
Fucking losers.