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If we have rolling blackouts all summer because of conservative energy policies, on the back of a Greg Abbott Guarantee that the lights would stay on, we'll get a pretty definitive conclusion as to if electoral outcomes are completely delinked from material reality.
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jokes posted:Texas legislature: “Joe Biden did this” It's not a funny joke, because the average republican will hear that, and be like, "I Knew It!". It's a sobering, if not outright depressing joke.
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The aristocrats!
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https://twitter.com/joshdr83/status/1546508037506179072 We are not quite into EEA1
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zoux posted:If we have rolling blackouts all summer because of conservative energy policies, on the back of a Greg Abbott Guarantee that the lights would stay on, we'll get a pretty definitive conclusion as to if electoral outcomes are completely delinked from material reality. I mean, you know in your heart that is what is going to happen.
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Yes but I'm also open to the possibility and indeed hoping that I'm wrong.
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zoux posted:Yes but I'm also open to the possibility and indeed hoping that I'm wrong. oh no
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It's true, I'm never wrong. It bodes ill.
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zoux is robin williams at the dinner table scene in hook, the beto campaign are the lost boys, and the food rightfully never appears
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Jul 13, 2022 21:56
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I’m Rufio
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drat, north of $5k again. They should raise that pesky cap from $9k to more like $12k, just to be safe.
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Jul 13, 2022 22:01
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CRT in are schools caused the Biden-Beto Blackouts
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jokes posted:I’m Rufio You're a near sighted gynaecologist? AND a substitute math teacher?
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Well I think we're gonna make it today but I'm not going to enjoy white knuckling this every day until september. Fix your dumbass polluting plants, oil and gas industry.
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zoux posted:Well I think we're gonna make it today but I'm not going to enjoy white knuckling this every day until september. Fix your dumbass polluting plants, oil and gas industry. Why bother when they can just reap massive profits of instability?
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If they let the grid fail then they can do their upgrades and maintenance on the taxpayers' dime But if it fails then the political landscape becomes less favorable In economics they call this the Midland Problem
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I mean isn’t this exactly what happened in California when they were tricked into dereg
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zoux posted:I mean isn’t this exactly what happened in California when they were tricked into dereg Yeah and the same people currently mad about windmills are still talking about the rolling blackouts in Cali caused by leftist perfidy
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Are those different blackouts than the ones caused by Enron?
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PG&E pled poverty as to why they couldn't do maintenance while simultaneously spending billions on dividends
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Jul 13, 2022 23:50
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We ran out of money giving ourselves money  Can we have some money?
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So variable rate customers are about to get boned again like they did during the ice storm?
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That's the entire point of deregulation.
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Individuals won't because individuals aren't allowed to purchase variable rate plans anymore. Everyone else who is on the wholesale market is well aware of the risk exposure by now so I wouldn't say anyone got "boned" except Texas consumers who live in this terrible deregulated system - but that's every day. There are absolutely summer days every year where consumers are paying (what are now) max prices. Also during the winter storm the price was pegged at a cap of $9k/kwh for 32 hours, today it was at a cap of $5k/kwh for about three hours.
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I feel like capping the price just means “this is the price now”
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Fixed rate people get boned too, it just takes longer.
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Dameius posted:Fixed rate people get boned too, it just takes longer. Right but we've been getting boned since 1999, poo poo like this happens every year, it's just now people are paying close attention to the electric grid for the first time and are like hmmm hang on now. Like I said, ERCOT has issued 50 conservation notices and required load shed four times since 2008, you can bet that prices were at the cap during those events. It probably happened more often than that, but idk how to go look at annual historical data of daily electric prices. e: the point I' making is, this kind of loving happens all the time, Uri was a loving of unprecedented scope zoux fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Jul 14, 2022 |
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I feel like we should take up a calendar pool and bet on the next date ERCOT will ask for Texans to conserve energy.
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Shooting Blanks posted:I feel like we should take up a calendar pool and bet on the next date ERCOT will ask for Texans to conserve energy. Tomorrow.
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I decline to enter the office pool
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I think it'd be harder to bet on which days they don't ask to conserve.
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Shooting Blanks posted:I feel like we should take up a calendar pool and bet on the next date ERCOT will ask for Texans to conserve energy. Every day temp goes above 100
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jokes posted:Every day temp goes above 100 *doc brown voice* thermometers? where we’re going … we don’t need thermometers
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Cael posted:*doc brown voice* thermometers? where we’re going … we don’t need thermometers Wow doc, that's
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https://twitter.com/TexasSierraClub/status/1547598514493853701 https://twitter.com/douglewinenergy/status/1547596250786123776 Wow! Also, they didn't say a word about why all that thermal was offline. https://twitter.com/zachdespart/status/1547580386422665217 Welp Crime is a huge issue in Harris Co and she's fighting the GOP and Kim Ogg on that front. Idk what the right answer for bail reform is but bottom line is several people have been killed by people jailed for violent offences released on PR bonds or really low bail amounts. That'll kill you in a political ad. Whether or not it's true, tons of people in Houston blame the increase in violent crime on progressive CJ reform implemented at the county level. I think it's probably more *gestures broadly at the state of American society today* but when this poo poo happens on your watch, you get the blame whether you deserve it or not. zoux fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Jul 14, 2022 |
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https://twitter.com/SIfill_/status/1547648534953857027 TX Republicans: “in case we haven’t been clear enough, we do, in fact, want you to drop dead rather than getting a medically-necessary abortion”
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https://twitter.com/RobertTGarrett/status/1547659138657685514 Forty loving billion surplus, a transformative amount of money, the vast majority of which will go to property tax relief that will shave dozens of dollars off your bill in 2025. Oh no, I'll be having the soup and salad tonight, garçon
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zoux posted:I'm letting this one guy off the hook, I guess: gently caress him and his punisher bullshit
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So who's winning Democratic Party Chair this weekend, anybody got any thoughts. I'm kind of a Kim Olson fan.
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