ERCOT urges Texans to conserve power Monday.

[CastletonSnob]

ERCOT nears another all-time high for Texas power demand Sunday as heat wave sets new records

Texans are being asked to conserve electricity Monday from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., when state...

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I don't know about anyone else, but I'm tired of worrying about whether the power will stay on every winter and summer. I'm going to remember this when I vote in November.

After last year's power outage, Uvdale, Odessa running out of water, and the disastrous COVID response, this could be the thing that finally sinks Abbott.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Listen bud, our grid just wasn't meant to handle high temperatures like this, nobody can control the weather so you best just tighten your belt and get used to it buttercup. /s

 

[Xprimentyl]

Listen bud, our grid just wasn't meant to handle high temperatures like this, nobody can control the weather so you best just tighten your belt and get used to it buttercup. /s

There's an overt Texas mentality that "NO ONE can tell us what to do!" and frankly, asking us to minimize electricity usage during the hottest times of the day so their grid isn't tasked to do what it's supposed to is, well.. good luck with that ERCOT.

Now, if you'll excuse me, as our patio fan is effectively a blow dryer right now, so I'm off to crank my A/C down to 13-degrees and employ several illegal immigrants to fan me with banana leaves.

 

[Chimpzy]

Maybe Texas should pass a law banning extreme weather, then fire wildly into the sky when it refuses to comply /s

Jokes aside, take good care of yourself, Texans. Seems like no one else will.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Maybe Texas should pass a law banning extreme weather, then fire wildly into the sky when it refuses to comply /s

We won't waste the ammo on non-compliant weather while there's still innocent children wandering around their schools learning and shit. #Priorities

 

[meiam]

Any bets on what they'll blame for this? Renewable, liberal or Biden somehow, or heck maybe Cliton and Obama, why not?

Joke aside, I doubt that'll affect republican chance of winning. The GOP thrive on people being miserable, the worse off they are, the more they vote GOP. It's kinda like super religious area, if they get hit by natural disaster they don't stop believing in God(s), even if they believe said God(s) could have prevented it, they just believe they have to pray harder.

 

[thebobmaster]

Any bets on what they'll blame for this? Renewable, liberal or Biden somehow, or heck maybe Cliton and Obama, why not?

Joke aside, I doubt that'll affect republican chance of winning. The GOP thrive on people being miserable, the worse off they are, the more they vote GOP. It's kinda like super religious area, if they get hit by natural disaster they don't stop believing in God(s), even if they believe said God(s) could have prevented it, they just believe they have to pray harder.

It's also Texas. The day Texas goes blue is the day California goes red.

 

[Dalisclock]

Any bets on what they'll blame for this? Renewable, liberal or Biden somehow, or heck maybe Cliton and Obama, why not?

Joke aside, I doubt that'll affect republican chance of winning. The GOP thrive on people being miserable, the worse off they are, the more they vote GOP. It's kinda like super religious area, if they get hit by natural disaster they don't stop believing in God(s), even if they believe said God(s) could have prevented it, they just believe they have to pray harder.

I've noticed the super religious/evangelicals believe wholeheartedly in the OT variety God who dishs out suffering whenever he damn well feels like it and clearly it's because you weren't believing hard enough and its your own damn fault. It's a mentality that's forever stuck in the bronze/iron age that has yet to be bothered by any philosophical or ethical viewpoints more recent then that. If Jesus is brought up, it's to absolve them of any responsibility or guilt because they're the "saved" and not to ask them to care about their neighbors, or god forbid, outsiders.

Sorry, that's probably a bit off topic. I've been doing a lot of reading up on religion/mythology lately and my opinion of mainline christianity isn't very much at the moment(I use mainline christianity because that's the dominant religion in the west so it's the one that holds the most power over my life. If I lived in a dominant Muslim nation I'd be saying similar things about Islam). I have some super hot takes but this isn't the thread for them and a know a lot of people would be quite perturbed.

 

[Trunkage]

I personally like the part where they are talking about Texans needing to do their part to make sure the grid stays on line.... like they haven't been deliberately saying the opposite about climate change. And social security. Gun violence. Police Brutality.

 

[meiam]

I've noticed the super religious/evangelicals believe wholeheartedly in the OT variety God who dishs out suffering whenever he damn well feels like it and clearly it's because you weren't believing hard enough and its your own damn fault. It's a mentality that's forever stuck in the bronze/iron age that has yet to be bothered by any philosophical or ethical viewpoints more recent then that. If Jesus is brought up, it's to absolve them of any responsibility or guilt because they're the "saved" and not to ask them to care about their neighbors, or god forbid, outsiders.

Sorry, that's probably a bit off topic. I've been doing a lot of reading up on religion/mythology lately and my opinion of mainline christianity isn't very much at the moment(I use mainline christianity because that's the dominant religion in the west so it's the one that holds the most power over my life. If I lived in a dominant Muslim nation I'd be saying similar things about Islam). I have some super hot takes but this isn't the thread for them and a know a lot of people would be quite perturbed.

Well religion probably started first and foremost as a way for people to make sense of all the crazy stuff that happened to them that they didn't understand. If the ground shake under you and kill a bunch of people and you literally cannot comprehend why the idea that you can do something about it by praying is seductive, much better than living thinking it could happen at anytime and there's nothing you can do. Its not something you can argue with, the only things that make people stop being religious is prosperity+education and generational changes.

To bring it back to GOP, I don't think any Texan will wonder if maybe they should vote politician that will do something about it, electricity/grid policy are fiendishly complex and not something your average Joe can understand, especially not the uneducated average Gop. Prosperity+education and generational changes would work, but there's a reason the GOP fight hard against better education and service.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Texas wanted to be free of federal regulations, so they cut their power grid off from the rest of the country. Well, now, freedom means you have to handle problems by yourself- depending on the government is just a form of slavery, ya know?

Any bets on what they'll blame for this? Renewable, liberal or Biden somehow, or heck maybe Cliton and Obama, why not?

"Liberal windmills are sucking power out of Texas's grid and sending it to the Jewish space laser to start more wildfires, so Biden can declare a state of emergency and take all our guns!"

(Carlson blamed all the shootings on mothers telling their sons that they're "privileged", so I can't even call this farce.)