Via Tom
Last week Texas experienced a cold snap that resulted in serious
statewide damage, death, and destruction. The collapse of the state’s
energy grid left millions of Texans in the dark and freezing for days at
a time. Tragically, at least 30 people died.
There are many
reasons why Texas became like a Third World country, and we should be
careful not to pin all the blame on just one factor. But it seems clear
that the disaster was to a large degree caused by political decisions to
shift toward “green” energy generated from solar and wind and by
Governor Abbott’s authoritarian Covid restrictions.
Abbott, who
won a “wind leadership” award just this month, oversaw the near-collapse
of wind energy generation last week. Yet the politicization of energy
generation in favor of “green” alternatives over natural gas and other
fossil fuels has led to the unintended consequences of freezing Texans
facing multiple millions of dollars in property damage and worse.
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