We have a real problem in the Lone Star state. But it ain’t Ted Cruz or Greg Abbott or “climate denial” or even a lack of AOC hanging around. One of the most important sentences i…
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We have a real problem in the Lone Star state. But it ain’t Ted Cruz or Greg Abbott or “climate denial” or even a lack of AOC hanging around.
One of the most important sentences in the below thread from Twitter (sorry y’all), is this: “Once it was clear that the polar vortex would engulf the entire state of [Texas Gov. Greg Abbott] declared an emergency and asked President* Biden for an EPA waiver to allow power generation facilities to operate at full capacity until the emergency passed.”
That’s a helluva good start. It establishes exactly where the problems did NOT begin. Where DID it begin? Well right here, as outlined in the second tweet: “Biden’s EPA refused Governor Abbott’s request and instead offered to allow certain power generation facilities a waiver if they raised the prices they charged to Texans to more than $1,500/MWh resulting in massive statewide power outages and a failure of the grid.”
Yep.
See, “the truth is that the federal government controls how Texas generates electricity,” writes the @Amuse account, home to the
deplatformed.space creator. “The mix of sources and the capacity of each. The EPA requires that Texas’ fossil fuel power generators operate far below their maximum output.”
And that’s just the tip of the
iceberg. So to speak.
TEXAS POWER CRISIS THREAD: Once it was clear that the polar vortex would engulf the entire state of Texas
@GovAbbott declared an emergency and asked President Biden for an EPA waiver to allow power generation facilities to operate at full capacity until the emergency passed.
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— @amuse (@amuse)
February 21, 2021
2/ Biden's EPA refused Governor Abbott's request and instead offered to allow certain power generation facilities a waiver if they raised the prices they charged to Texans to more than $1,500/MWh resulting in massive statewide power outages and a failure of the grid.
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— @amuse (@amuse)
February 21, 2021
3/ The truth is that the federal government controls how Texas generates electricity – the mix of sources and the capacity of each. The EPA requires that Texas' fossil fuel power generators operate far below their maximum output.
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— @amuse (@amuse)
February 21, 2021
4/ Gov. Abbott knew that if the EPA would allow our natural gas and coal power plants to operate at peak efficiency they could meet 110% of the demand the state faced last week. The EPA refused.
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— @amuse (@amuse)
February 21, 2021
5/ Sadly, Biden's acting EPA chief, David Huizenga, is not an expert at power generation but instead an expert with nuclear waste management. When Gov. Abbott received the EPA's refusal he knew Texas was in trouble and there was nothing he could do about it.
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— @amuse (@amuse)
February 21, 2021
6/ My question? Why didn't
@GovAbbott simply order all Texas power generation facilities to operate at peak efficiency and force Biden to send his army to Texas to stop us? Does anyone think Biden would have sent the army to shut down our national gas power generation facilities?
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— @amuse (@amuse)
February 21, 2021
7/ SHOCK: President Biden refused
@GovAbbott's request that he sign major disaster declarations for 177 Texas counties after refusing to allow Texas power plants to operate at 100% capacity during the polar vortex resulting in massive power outages.
Biden signs major disaster declaration for 77 Texas counties, but governor asked for all 254
— @amuse (@amuse)
February 21, 2021
8/ If President Trump had refused to provide disaster relief for 177 counties the Texas Tribune would be in each county sharing the stories of average Texans struggling to stay warm, feed their families, and pay their bills. Since Biden refused to provide relief: silence.
— @amuse (@amuse)
February 21, 2021
9/ CORRECTION: I used EPA instead of DOE in this thread. Also, to be clear the DOE refused Abbott's request to allow power plants to operate at full capacity without charging at least $1500/MWh – a price that would have bankrupted the retail electric industry/consumers.
— @amuse (@amuse)
February 21, 2021
10/ To put the DOE's actions in context their demand that generators sell their additional capacity at $1500/MWh is like telling gas stations they can sell gas to consumers at $1500/gallon – it was a price so high it was basically saying, "no, you can't increase capacity".
— @amuse (@amuse)
February 21, 2021
11/ While we lost much of our renewable supply (wind and solar) our natural gas and coal are required to operate at 60% capacity to reduce emissions. They CAN operate at 100% if they get a waiver from the federal government (as Abbott requested). Biden refused…
— @amuse (@amuse)
February 21, 2021
12/ This morning on the Sunday political TV shows Biden surrogates claimed that the power outages and the lives lost rest solely on
@GregAbbott_TX. The media won't look at evidence that the DOE refused the governor's request to allow for additional power generation. Sick.
— @amuse (@amuse)
February 21, 2021
Tweet #8 is close to my Lone Star heart, too. “If President Trump had refused to provide disaster relief for 177 counties the Texas Tribune would be in each county sharing the stories of average Texans struggling to stay warm, feed their families, and pay their bills. Since Biden refused to provide relief: silence.”
Biden hasn’t even dropped by for a visit. We don’t bite. But he don’t care.
I think it’s pretty clear where the fault is, don’t y’all?
