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Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy (fortune.com)
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[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Like the time people were freezing to death during a power outage while the governor took a vacation to Cancún?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, they were too poor to heat their homes and that was their choice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The biggest mistake a lot of people make is being born poor.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

*Senator

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, if you want a governor abandoning his people, look to Kevin Stitt (Oklahoma) last year when Tulsa was without power for about a week. Lieutenant Governor was out too, literally no one had any idea who was in charge of the state.