> When Texas's power grid went down, people were freezing to death. AFAIK, gas delivery wasn't affected.
Texas's power grid went down in part because natural gas plants couldn't get the necessary gas.
Texas's power grid went down in part because natural gas plants couldn't get the necessary gas.
Are there 2 unique gas distribution systems? Was there no gas, or was it just super expensive spot price and no one wanted to pay for it?
I get the impression this isn't typical, but for me "gas" usually means a 150-gal propane tank, filled asynchronously, often by truck rather than gas main. A benefit of this, like most asynchronous systems, is that no amount of disfunction in the backend will have any immediate effect on local usage.
But yeah- in my neck of the woods, anywhere outside the city has a propane tank on the property somewhere.
Actually, that is a specific thing that this method does help with: if people stockpile in a given month, it has no immediate effect on me, because my gas tank still has gas left in it. It might cause non-immediate problems, but a lack of local buffers doesn't help with that, and I've at least bought weeks or months of time for those problems to clear up.