@ProjectLincoln @tedcruz Texas failed to winterize its generation sources the last time this happened in 2011.
Now ask yourself, why?
Simple. Texas's extended power outage is a result of negligent GOP infrastructure policy.
THREAD.
@tedcruz The Texas GOP has continuously rebuffed plans to invest in better infrastructure to upgrade TX power grids.
Texas was warned to weatherize power plants.
Why didn’t they?
@tedcruz TX power companies said electricity prices are too low to provide incentives (profit) to build new plants or improve older ones. (a result of privatization of basic services.)
@tedcruz The electrical grid in Texas was deregulated, privatized, and removed from interconnected networks to avoid federal regulation and increase profits for a small number of wealthy individuals.
Go figure.
@tedcruz If TX ERCOT grid was on the national grid, or simply reinvested in their privatized infrastructure, they'd be fine by now.
They did neither, b/c it wasn't profitable.
It's a failure of TX leadership –– total, inexcusable, and utterly catastrophic.
Not fucking windmills.