The Texas Disaster Freezing Sacrifices At The Alter Of Wind And Solar Power
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Originally posted by second:Quote:It is not actually capitalism, although it does involve money. It is a very simple and straightforward swindle that the governor of Texas is permitting to run. Both natural gas and electricity were being regulated to benefit the customers, but since George Bush became governor, all of his successors have regulated gas and electricity to NOT benefit the customers.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Ain't capitalism grand?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Oh. These are the honest jobs then.
But only when Democrats do them, right?
I mean, just look at Illinois. I mean... don't look at everybody fleeing Illinois.
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Quote:If you knew the Texas natural gas business, and the people who work in it, they see absolutely nothing wrong with natural gas selling for $3 per million British thermal units a couple of weeks before the storm soaring above $1,000 per million British thermal units, shattering records. There was a time when the governor of Texas would NOT allow that price change, which did NOT increase production even a tiny bit. But nowadays, gas producers can lie their heads off and claim they had to raise the price or else no natural gas would flow. Again, the gas producers are lying, but the lies will fool people who don't know how the Texas natural gas business works.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh. These are the honest jobs then.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:If you knew the Texas natural gas business, and the people who work in it, they see absolutely nothing wrong with natural gas selling for $3 per million British thermal units a couple of weeks before the storm soaring above $1,000 per million British thermal units, shattering records. There was a time when the governor of Texas would NOT allow that price change, which did NOT increase production even tiny bit. But nowadays, gas producers can lie their heads off and claim they had to raise the price or else no natural gas would flow. Again, the gas producers are lying, but the lies are a convenient justification to raise prices for people who don't know how the Texas natural gas business works.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh. These are the honest jobs then.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I'm just wondering what you consider an honest job to be.
You shit all over the workers who turn the gears of the economy in the Olympics thread.
What is an honest job to a Leftist Elitist?
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Quote:Honest work involves NOT lying and NOT cheating and NOT being incompetent. You aren't doing honest work when you lie and cheat and perform poorly to make more money. I kind of noticed, with about a thousand personal experiences in construction, that the so-called "honest" American workers doing "honest" work aren't honest in the least unless there is somebody who will fire them if they are dishonest. It is not really conducive for a harmonious workplace until the dishonest craftsmen who are crooks, liars, thieves and incompetent are culled. Once those worthless Trump-voting bastards have been terminated, things run smoothly and happily for the other workers.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm just wondering what you consider an honest job to be.
You shit all over the workers who turn the gears of the economy in the Olympics thread.
What is an honest job to a Leftist Elitist?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Honest work involves NOT lying and NOT cheating and NOT being incompetent. You aren't doing honest work when you lie and cheat and perform poorly to make more money. I kind of noticed, with about a thousand personal experiences in construction, that the so-called "honest" American workers doing "honest" work aren't honest in the least unless there is somebody who will fire them if they are dishonest. It is not really conducive for a harmonious workplace until the dishonest craftsmen who are crooks, liars, thieves and incompetent are culled. Once those worthless Trump-voting bastards have been terminated, things run smoothly and happily for the other workers.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm just wondering what you consider an honest job to be.
You shit all over the workers who turn the gears of the economy in the Olympics thread.
What is an honest job to a Leftist Elitist?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You're not really putting up the virtue and work ethic of Biden* voters against Trump voters, are you?
That's a can of worms you don't want to open, boy.
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Price gouging is legal when Texas says so
In March, just after Texas’ devastating winter blackout that killed hundreds, Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a La Quinta in San Antonio for alleged price gouging, declaring that “gross exploitation of Texans” would not be tolerated.
“Companies looking to profit from this tragic event that left millions of Texans without power or water will be aggressively investigated and prosecuted,” Paxton said in a press release.
He accused the motel of taking advantage of surging demand for lodging by charging “exorbitant prices” for rooms. How exorbitant? Triple the normal rates, according to the release.
Just triple. If only Texans had been so lucky when it came to natural gas prices, which soared 100 times their regular level during the freeze.
So why aren’t Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott decrying that exploitation? Why aren’t they firing off press releases and filing lawsuits against natural gas pipeline companies and traders who made billions profiting from Texans’ desperation after Winter Storm Uri?
Because unlike $199 motel rooms and $11 gallons of milk, wholesale electricity prices of $9,000 per megawatt hour were not a quirk of the system but a function.
The companies did exactly what Texas’ deregulated electricity market allows them to do: ramp up production to meet surging demand during a crisis situation and collect handsomely from sky-high emergency pricing.
Call it state-sanctioned exploitation. Call it price-gouging by design. Call it, as San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg put it, “the most massive wealth transfer in Texas history.”
No matter what you call it, it’s a bad deal for Texans who will foot the bill for many years to come on the $3.6 billion in natural gas costs incurred by utilities for one week in February.
Windfall profits included $2.4 billion for Energy Transfer of Dallas, $1.1 billion for Kinder Morgan of Houston and more than $1 billion for BP from its natural-gas trading business, according to the Chronicle’s Paul Takahashi, citing company filings and analyst estimates.
So, other than the zeroes, how is Energy Transfer’s $2.4 billion so different from a motel’s inflated $199 room rate during peak demand?
Some litigants and energy experts claim it isn’t. They point to a section in Texas law that deals with deceptive trade practices which prohibits people during an official disaster from taking advantage of others by selling necessities — including food, lodging and yes, fuel — “at an exorbitant or excessive price.”
But it would seem that the spirit of the law was intended for those acting deceptively and it’s a stretch to argue that a company doing what the law allows, and in fact encourages it to do, is acting deceptively. Unless, of course, utility plaintiffs suing some of these gas companies can prove they purposely withheld gas supplies in order to artificially inflate prices.
There hasn’t been any compelling evidence of that thus far, and it’s important to note that companies such as Energy Transfer made the investments they should have to keep producing during the storm when others were sidelined by frozen facilities and equipment. We’ll leave it for the courts to hash out whether any wrongdoing took place.
But what is deceptive is the way in which Abbott and lawmakers pretend they’ve fixed an electric grid that’s still vulnerable to collapse and lacking an adequate cushion of supply during crisis.
What’s deceptive is our leaders crowing about new weatherization requirements to prevent facilities from freezing again — and then slyly carving out loopholes for a gas industry whose executives are generous campaign contributors to Abbott and other Republicans in control.
What’s deceptive is the idea that Texas’ independent electric grid, cut off from the rest of the country, is somehow saving Texas ratepayers money or providing us with more reliable energy than other states.
We are hypocrites if we ever cast another condescending glance over at California during a blackout there. The Texas
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Texas natural gas industry showing limited progress in winter storm prep, experts say
Efforts to get the Texas natural gas industry ready to operate through another severe winter storm like February’s are so far showing limited gains, with independent experts saying they see little evidence of companies increasing investments in weatherization and other protective measures.
Since the frigid weather knocked out power to millions of Texans, state and federal officials have called on energy companies to weatherize the power grid and the natural gas system on which it relies to avoid a repeat of a disaster that led to more than 200 deaths and billions of dollars in property damage. Experts say the power sector is shoring up generation against cold weather, but there is little evidence the gas industry is doing much to ensure that natural gas keeps flowing even in the harshest winter conditions.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20211019115720/https://www.houstonchronicl
e.com/business/energy/article/Texas-natural-gas-industry-not-preparing-for-16543874.php
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New study compares the economic policies of Texas and California
https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/new-study-compares-the-economic-p
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Clean Core Thorium Energy Congratulates Texas A&M on Fabrication of First ANEEL Advanced Nuclear Fuel Pellets
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China’s ‘artificial sun’ tipped to provide electricity in 10 years if Beijing backs it
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/china-artificial-sun-tipped-electricity-1208
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“Eco-Friendly Fossil Fuels Are The Way Of The Future,” Says Petroteq Energy
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/pr/2200447/eco-friendly-fossil-fu
els-are-the-way-of-the-future-says-petroteq-energy
Former Spacex Engineers Develop a Portable Plug-And-Play Nuclear Reactor
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Sites shortlisted for a British fusion energy plant
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Last Year's Texas Power Outage Will Now Cost Natural Gas Customers $3.4 Billion
"Texans will be paying for the effects of last February's cold snap for decades to come," reports Ars Technica, "as the state's oil and gas regulator approved a plan for natural gas utilities to recover $3.4 billion in debt they incurred during the storm.
"The regulator, the Railroad Commission, is allowing utilities to issue bonds to cover the debt. As a result, ratepayers could see an increase in their bills for the next 30 years."
During the winter storm, natural gas prices spiked as cold temperatures drove demand up while also depressing supply... The governor's office knew of the looming shortages days before they happened, yet the preparations they made did little to alter the course of the disaster... Gas sellers made record profits in just a few days, together bringing in as much as $11 billion, about 70-100 times more than normal, based on spot prices at the time. Meanwhile, many Texans suffered through blackouts and bitter cold, and 210 people died, according to the latest estimate from the Texas Department of State Health Services.
In the wake of the storm, many officials have called on utilities and oil and gas companies to winterize their operations...
Texans aren't the only ones whose bills are higher as a result of producers' and utilities' unwillingness to winterize their equipment. Utilities around the country were forced to buy natural gas at significantly higher prices when Texas' markets went haywire as a result of low supply and high demand. Ratepayers as far away as Minnesota will be paying surcharges for years to come after their utilities had to pay $800 million more than expected for natural gas.
The article also includes a quote from Katie Sieben, chairwoman of the Minnesota Public Utility Commission, from an April article in The Washington Post.
"It is maddening and outrageous and completely inexcusable that Texas' lack of sound utility regulation is having this impact on the rest of the country."
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/21/11/13/0026231/last-years-texas-
power-outage-will-now-cost-natural-gas-customers-34-billion
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