Originally Posted by FreelancePoliceman
Our power infrastructure's breaking down again. Gotta love it when utilities are privatized.
My buddy owns part of an oil and gas well in Texas. He usually gets a few hundred dollars per month income from it, but during the cold snap in Texas when pipelines froze as a result of an absence of regulations which exist everywhere else, and gas prices skyrocketed to reflect the market, he was paid $28,000 that month. Straight out of the pockets of Texas gas-consumers.
He's very happy that Texas supports free enterprise.
Now that the cold snap is over, it has been replaced by a heat wave and the Texas Power Grid is once again suffering from unanticipated power outages. Possibly due to poor maintenance, because maintenance costs money.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/l...-what-we-know/
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