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Did Kinsbury have electric power? Do they have potable running water now?

I get it: you've basically admitted by implication that you are directly involved somehow either with ERCOT itself, or one of the "power providers" who use ERCOT and the isolated grid gimmick, to "keep the federal government out of their BUSINESSS". ("It's MY JOB!!!!!11111!)

Makes perfect sense that you'd have a vested interest in "defending" a regulatory framework which is specifically designed to *prevent* meaningful regulation, controlling an "isolated" grid which is *also* explicitily predicated on dodging regulation.

Pity this didn't happen back in 1970, when your state had *no* regulations in place. We would likely have been spared Texas' stupid political delusions fucking up the rest of the country.

Your attempts to "defend" ERCOT as a hunky-dory idea, and handwave away the fact that those areas which ARE interconnected to out-of-state grids survived basically intact demonstrates pretty conclusively what I initially said about how Texas "won't learn a damn thing from this" - even if they DO go "Purple" in terms of the presidential elections.

If you *really* want the feds "out of your business", then you should' get the FEMA aid.

You know I'm right.

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Oh yeah, I fergot - there "is" an interconnection (in Lubbock!) - you just don't use it.

Okay, cool. So - if you ride a motor-cycle, get into an "accident" and end up with severe head-trauma because you weren't wearing a helmet as a result - "the helmet wouldn't have helped" - because it is sitting in a box in your closet.

100% of the precautions you *don't take* will fail to protect you.

Just give it up.

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