Was there a mistake in the article? It said that the legislative body would not meet again until 2015? Also, I wonder what affect Big Oil had on the outcome?
Texas has a part-time legislature. There's also no need to go looking for pantomime villains; car dealers are hugely powerful in local and state politics. They're the rock that Tesla will founder on.
That is taking "part time" to the extreme.
I'm of two minds. Is it really OK to have fundamental decisions about a system as large and complex as Texas' state government ultimately be decided by so unserious a group of people? Or would they just do more damage if they were around more?
I don't live in Texas, so I have no dog in the fight.
I don't live in Texas either (and I've been instructed to never mess with them) so I don't have a dog in the fight either. But it seems to me that if they meet every 2 years, the work load they would have during that meeting would be huge. Would attention to detail about what they are deciding on be hindered by having such a large volume of stuff? But maybe they do lots of stuff in between the meetings to prepare. It just seems odd to meet about stuff that might have been sitting there waiting for 2 years.