Texas crisis has governor facing big backer: energy industry

📆 2/19/2021 12:15 AM
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As frozen Texas reels under one of the worst electricity outages in U.S. history, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has blamed grid operators and iced-over wind turbines but gone easier on another culprit: an oil and gas industry that is the state's dominant business and his biggest political contributor. “It's almost like a murder suspect blaming their right hand for committing the crime,' said Democratic state Rep. James Talarico. Like most of the state's 30 million residents, Talarico's power is controlled by grid managers at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which Abbott again laid into Thursday after more than 4 million people at one point were enduring outages in subfreezing temperatures.

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Portland Oregon also got few days of power loss.

WELL MAYBE ITS TIME TO WHEEL THE GOV..DOWN THE HANDYCAP RAMP,AND LET HIS ASS SIT OUT IN THE COLD FOR AFEW DAYS..

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