'Unplanned' outages hit Texas power plants in soaring temperatures

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7 points·NikolaeVarius··5 comments

It is clear that the electricity network of Texas cannot cope with current demands in winter nor summer. It is actually killing some of its citizens.

In most European there would be a national outcry and intervention from the central government. Why does this not happen in the US?

Well, Texans and Techies did cry out when California had/has their outages (mostly due to new fire prevention practices during extremely high winds).

But Texas is a utopia of free market thinking where gov’t is always the problem and the market will fix itself. In the meantime, have you heard of CRT in the classroom, or the War on Christmas?

The USA was founded on distrust of powerful governments. That continues to today, and is more obvious in right leaning areas, like Texas.

And what do you mean by 'central government' in Europe? One of the national governments (Germany, France, etc.) or the EU? Because the central government in the US (federal level) would have power similar to the EU than any of the smaller national governments.

its a purely political system. they chose exactly to be thisnbrittle

Fortunately praying works for Texans.

Texas politician proposes unironically that everyone should pray for electricity to come back up. They pray that power comes back on, and it eventually does. Prayers are answered every time. Praise the Lord.

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