Ted Cruz has left freezing Texas for Cancun. UPDATE: Back home after 1 night

[DJ Paul's Arm]

 

[Rawtid]

Trump killed half a million Americans with his covid management but white America loves him to death..

White people love white people.

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

You have a lot of faith in the Texas electorate

Ted Cruz was a clear and obvious piece of shyt in the last election and they still voted for him

Beto has essentially disqualified himself from running in Texas because of that "Hell yeah we're gonna take your guns" line during the failed Presidential run

All they gotta do is run that during ads and he's DONE

People like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio get reelected for 2 reasons:

1. Dems require the PERFECT candidate

2. Republicans only need to see the R next to your name

C/s

I lost all faith in Texas going blue after this election...

That's not happening, especially with Hispanics in Texas going red...

 

[Rawtid]

#FledCruz

 

[jwinfield]

that red state from top to bottom talking about seceding every few weeks needs to HYON

Less than a month ago

Gov. Greg Abbott says he'll fight Joe Biden's energy and climate agenda

During a news conference in Odessa, the Republican governor vowed that Texas would pursue an aggressive legal strategy against the Biden administration much like Abbott, then the attorney general, did against former President Barack Obama. Abbott signed an executive order that he said would "direct every state agency to use all lawful powers and tools to challenge any federal action that threatens the" energy sector in Texas. And he announced his support for legislation that "prohibits cities and counties from banning natural gas appliances," railing against a similar move last year by San Francisco.

 

[newworldafro]

Apparently DoE is involved with this.

Apparently they prevented ERCOT (Texas energy commission) from upping its power until grid had went down on Saturday (2/13/21), then could only get it from outside sources (outside the state) at astronomical prices (that's why Tesla cost $900 to charge up).

Apparently has to do with climate change mandates/executives.

Stay tuned I'll have a link and video soon.

 

[#1 pick]

fredo and professor x got anne richards trending on twitter. #restorethefeeling

Georgia was better when it was lead by Dixiecrats as well. Even though those cacs were racist, they cared about everybody.

Stacey Abrams gonna make the cacs mad too. These new Democrats aren't for the Dixie AT ALL.

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

what's your background breh

You know how the white Cubans give it up. Many of them go out their way not to identify with the struggle that ties us together in Latin America

 

[CashmereThoughts]

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[CashmereThoughts]

what's your background breh

I’m African American and Afro-Panamanian.

 

[Tasha And]

Breh I been laughing at this for almost a minute straight

 

[concise]

Well. The Fed bought a $6 trillion in Treasury Bonds then electronically transferred the money to Congress and various banks. But yes, this is stupid. Why hasn't Biden declared Texas as a state of emergency?

He did that 4-5 days ago. Basically around the time when the only problems in texas were the icy roads.

Some are not used to the president not getting on Twitter and saying he deserves credit for doing his job

"Well, where's Biden?" is is going to be the deflection point now.

 

[Spence]

You have a lot of faith in the Texas electorate

Ted Cruz was a clear and obvious piece of shyt in the last election and they still voted for him

Beto has essentially disqualified himself from running in Texas because of that "Hell yeah we're gonna take your guns" line during the failed Presidential run

All they gotta do is run that during ads and he's DONE

People like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio get reelected for 2 reasons:

1. Dems require the PERFECT candidate

2. Republicans only need to see the R next to your name

Those Hispanics are only along the border. Beto lost by 3 points and that margin gets slimmer every day that all these Cali people move here to Texas. Something to the tune of 200 Californians move her PER DAY. Beto might not be the guy that wins but if the Dems get any other moderate candidate that isn’t Vanilla Obama they will win.

 

[levitate]

“What could he do anyway?”

I don’t know, maybe something like this:

 

[bnew]

Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies, judges rule

A panel of judges has said that big power companies cannot be held liable for failure to provide electricity during the 2021 blackout. The reason is Texas’ deregulated energy market.

www.kut.org

Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies, judges rule​

KUT 90.5 | By Mose Buchele

Published December 15, 2023 at 3:39 PM CST

Gabriel C. Pérez / KUT

The decision now leaves the families of those who died during the 2021 blackout unsure where next to seek justice.

Almost three years since the deadly Texas blackout of 2021, a panel of judges from the First Court of Appeals in Houston has ruled that big power companies cannot be held liable for failure to provide electricity during the crisis. The reason is Texas’ deregulated energy market.

The decision seems likely to protect the companies from lawsuits filed against them after the blackout. It leaves the families of those who died unsure where next to seek justice.

In February of 2021, a massive cold front descended on Texas, bringing days of ice and snow. The weather increased energy demand and reduced supply by freezing up power generators and the state’s natural gas supply chain. This led to a blackout that left millions of Texans without energy for nearly a week.

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The state has said almost 250 people diedbecause of the winter storm and blackout, but some analysts call that a serious undercount.

Within days of the storm, Texans affected by the failure of the energy system began filing lawsuits. Some of those suits were brought against power generators whose plants had stopped working in the storm or had run out of fuel to generate electricity.

After years of legal process, a three-judge panel convened to decide on the merits of those lawsuits.

This week, Chief Justice Terry Adams issued the unanimous opinion of that panel that “Texas does not currently recognize a legal duty owed by wholesale power generators to retail customers to provide continuous electricity to the electric grid, and ultimately to the retail customers.”

The opinion states that big power generators “are now statutorily precluded by the legislature from having any direct relationship with retail customers of electricity.”

The Texas energy market​

That legal separation of power generation from transmission and retail electric sales in many parts of Texas resulted from energy market deregulation in the early 2000s. The aim was to reduce energy costs.

Before deregulation, power companies were “vertically integrated.” That means they controlled generators, transmission lines and sold the energy they produced and transported directly to a regional customer base. Parts of Texas, like Austin, with publicly owned utilities still operate under such a system.

But in other parts of the state, deregulation broke up those regional energy monopolies, creating competing energy-generating companies and retail electric providers that buy power wholesale from generators and then re-sell it to residential consumers.

“One consequence of that was, because of the unbundling and the separation, you also don’t have the same duties and obligations [to consumers],” Tré Fischer, a partner with law firm Jackson Walker who represented the power companies told KUT.

“The structure just doesn't allow for that direct relationship and correspondingly a direct obligation to continually supply the electricity even if there's a natural disaster or catastrophic event,” he added.

In the opinion, Justice Adams noted that, when designing the Texas energy market, state lawmakers “could have codified the retail customers’ asserted duty of continuous electricity on the part of wholesale power generators into law.”

What comes next?​

The recent opinion applies to five cases the panel of judges took as representative of the hundreds filed after the blackout. Because of the ruling, it is unlikely that any of those lawsuits against power companies could be successful, according to the court.

But plaintiffs' lawyers have told Texas Law Book they plan to appeal.

Fischer said the plaintiffs' attorneys could ask the entire F1st Court of Appeals to review the panel’s opinion, or they could appeal to the state supreme court. KUT has reached out to lawyers representing plaintiffs in these cases and will update if we hear back.

The state Supreme Court has already ruled that the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the state’s power grid operator, enjoys sovereign immunity and cannot be sued over the blackout.

Now, this recent opinion leaves the question of who, if anyone, may be taken to court over deaths and losses incurred in the blackout.

“It’s certainly left unaddressed by this opinion because the court wasn’t being asked that question,” Fischer said. “If anything [the judges] were saying that is a question for the Texas legislature.”