Another example of winning the future

By Locutisprime.

It's another WTF moment mates! Seems that since the mega storm in the mid west hit Texas on Tuesday, some terrible realities have surfaced.

Mexico City

Mexico's state electricity company on Wednesday started supplying electricity to the US state of Texas, where demand shot up amid unusually cold temperatures and caused power outages.

Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission "was determined to support Texas with electrical energy faced with the problems the state is suffering due to climatological conditions," a statement said.

It looks like we have suffered some 'climatological conditions' that heretofore have never been seen. All those decades of winters in the books and not the first time has Texas suffered 'rolling blackouts' or sought the necessity of begging power from Mexico. But that has all apparently changed.

Texas Governor Rick Perry said in a statement that power and emergency management experts were working with utility providers to ensure power was restored as quickly as possible. "Until that happens, I urge businesses and residents to conserve electricity to minimize the impact of this event," Perry added. An epic winter storm Wednesday buried more than a third of the United States in drifting snow, sleet and ice that brought air and road travel to a halt.

So, was it truly an epic winter storm that caused all this misery? Or is there something else that we are not being told? Hospital administrators in the Dallas Forth Worth area have been dealing with 'rolling blackouts' since Wednesday, but now with the aid and assistance of Mexico that burden might be lessened significantly.

Blackouts Anger Dallas Hospitals.

What isn't being noted is that these blackouts are yet another example of the present administration's taking advantage of a created crisis. America wasn't in crisis until we allowed these interloping social environmentalist to have complete say so over our future and how we provide for the needs and necessities of this country.

Hello America! Wake up to the realities! Pay attention to what is happening to this nation then ask yourself why! Why in the history of this nation has America never had a need to beg electricity from Mexico? And how long has the capability been present for Mexico to be our rescuers? How did that  capability come into existence?

The bottom line, what we are seeing in Texas as a result of this storm, was not caused by a simple increase in demand for electricity brought on by this storm. It has been caused and created by our own failure to attend to the needs of our people and our own refusal to meet the necessities of our own nation.We have entrusted our leadership to protect us and they have betrayed us.

Simply put, America has the means and the ability to produce the electricity to power all of the needs and requirements of America, we have simply been prevented from doing so by a leftist environmental enclave of politicians and bureaucrats. These environmental regulations and a government conrtolled by leftists has been and is continuing to stifle both this nation's growth and survivability.

And as of this week, we have reached the point where Texas is begging off electricity from Mexico because our own power production cannot meet demand. Think about that the next time you see Obama and Congress debating supposed clean energy 'initiatives.' Think about that when you see the discussions revisited where Obama promised to break and destroy the American coal industry and how he has now stopped all off shore oil exploration in this country. Think about that as you see your own power bills increase and think about that as you are told that you will be required to suffer and sacrifice 'rolling blackouts,' as "we just don't have the means to provide all the power needed for our excessive lifestyles."

Think about it now before it is too late. The day America became dependent on Mexico to save our backsides on the power grid, something is terribly wrong.

Comments

[Morgan K Freeberg]

This is exactly the kind of thing I use as a defense when people accuse me of using the word "insanity" too broadly. Don't build the next power plant because...because...because. Carbon, climate, endangered snail, if wind power isn't good enough for us then it damn well oughta be......list goes on and on and on.

And then we have rolling blackouts.

When that happens, we've got a lot of people running around, free to vote as you & me, who chalk it up to "corporate greed." They have a say in deciding what we're going to do, so we end up not building power plants and just waiting for the next brown-out or blackout. It happens again and we all act so shocked. It would be cute if it didn't hurt people.

Apologies to those who argue (sometimes quite persuasively) that the I-word should be held to its clinical standard. When your method of addressing a problem brings about an effective and beneficial outcome less often than a random-chance decision-making method would, how can you possibly call it sane?

[Pile of Pooh]

As a native Texan, I am increasingly an advocate of preemptive secession -- we should act now to avoid the rush.

The EPA has become the equivalent of jack-booted thugs, increasingly implementing non-sensical policies in a bid to justify their existence. I heard yesterday that they've now decided dairy farmers have to build containment curbs and implement remediation plans for spilled milk -- since milk is now apparently a hazardous substance.

Time to say bye-bye to these idiots, my fellow Texans. We can't get rid of them at this point; they're too firmly entrenched. But we can take our toys and leave before they burn the house down.

[Will]

So a large number of schools and businesses closed due to the weather and we have rolling blackouts. Makes you wonder what will happen come August when every A/C unit in the state is going.

[RandomThoughts]

Sometimes I wonder if underneath it all, the EPA isn't in the business of thinning out the population (i.e. killing people). Oh, they would never come near to being that upfront about it, but really, when your goal is to prevent people from having enough power to keep themselves from freezing or dying of heat stroke, what other rationale could there be?

[Locutisprime]

Well, it looks like as of this morning, the Mexicans have reneged. What will we do?

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

Come Sunday I’d love to see the Super Bowl suffer a blackout. That’ll give everyone a sense of what is happening to our country.

[Locutisprime]

Truthfully, if they never played another Super Bowl game ever, I could care less. But you can bet they won't let that happen. They will re-route half of America's
power grid to keep that from happening and to cover their tracks while it is going on.

[Tina]

There's no way Texas, with our own power grid, should have such blackouts, planned or otherwise - especially since peak demand this week "...is still well below the grid's 2010 summer peak of 65,715 megawatts." (according to Reuters). Not a record, not even close.

I thought the info in this article by Kate Gilbraith
was interesting.

Especially this note: "ERCOT has balked at releasing [a list of specific supplier outages] to the press. “There is competitive information that can be gleaned if their competitors are aware that they are out of service,” Doggett said."