ERCOT Faces Texas Lawmakers After Devastating Power Outages | NBC Nightly News

1. I have a great idea. I’ll shut off your electricity for a few days during a record Arctic cold blast due to my own incompetence. That way all your pipes will freeze and cause a few thousand dollars worth of damage to your home making it unlivable. Then I’ll send you a monthly utility bill for a few thousand dollars. Then you can sue me or even better, get the government to fine me for a few hundred million and they can spend the money as they wish. Then I’ll pass on the cost to all our customers including those other customers who didn’t freeze. We are prepared. Don’t worry, we got this…

2. I think some Texas lawmakers will be sent packing come election time.

3. The morons cut the power to the gasfields restricting flow to the power plants.

4. The Texas GOP must be ecstatic – With the Disaster declaration they've found a method to PRIVATIZE electric grid profits while SOCIALIZING losses. It's dream come true for the protectors of the rich.

5. Pooooor babies!

6. Texas lawmakers: "why did we have so many disastrous blackouts?"

   ERCOT: "might it have anything to do with the fact that you geniuses don't want texas to connect to the rest of the country's power grid, coz you cheapskates hate big guvmint?"

7. Faces Texas law makers?
   To what, ask for more money as they continue to lax regulations even further.

8. Y'all hear the CEO go through puberty right there!? HE IS LYING!

9. Democrats need to bring in more of those worthless green new deal wind turbines.

10. And screw NBC for putting that clown on television. Worthless news

11. Worthless Gregg must resign now and while at it he needs to take that demented Sob lt governor Dan Patrick with him

12. Ted Cruz can acquit ERCOT and will tell people he wanted to go to Cancun instead of helping them out and die hard Cruz fans still Vote for him to be in Congress.

13. Imagine if the entire country lost power from a solar flare or something people would absolutely lose they're minds we are so dependent on the system

14. When getting water for the toilet don't fill the tank use less water by pouring it in the toilet bowl until flushed less water less trips to or with bucket. Think smart 😍

15. Americans complaining about any inconvenience is always dreadful but in this case. Texas has every right to be upset for the lack of preparation. It really was an unfortunate week man

16. Go green go frozen

17. How about Texas lawmakers face Texans after deregulating our power grid to the point dollar bills became more important than taxpaying constituents' lives???

18. America needs to cut texas loose they are a burden on the country

19. So the electric company is not under law a regulated monopoly? State regulators are not a subject of inquiry? Sounds like a set up to me.

20. the man in power watch this Украина опубликовала сенсационную информацию о Biden there are english subtitles the president is corrupt

21. Lending a hand?? Nice way to cover up the fact that he's going to make s killing doing repairs. It's all about money and opportunity

22. And so they should! Even the ones who resigned! Get them a sweeping brush and mop each!

23. So much suffering. And to think how much of it could have been averted by one more wave of massive deregulation and corporate tax cuts.

24. Biden refuses to declare many of the counties that were worst hit as disaster areas. Report on THAT. BIDEN is playing politics with peoples lives here!

25. The lawmakers knew of the issues for 10 yrs and now that it has come true its the power companies fault,
    I feel no pity for said lawmakers, they have done riled themselves a mess of Texans.
    This time the lawmakers will be the ones inside of the alamo

26. The Democrat party should be classified as a hate group!

27. Hope those Texans were OK receiving assistance from a dirty liberal from Jersey. 🤷🏿‍♂️

28. Claiming the windmills don't have operating specs that tell you what temps are operable?
    All machines tell you what is the lowest temperature they can operate at.
    Now that specs for new windmills will be subzero..
    Hindsight? They knew

29. The same Texas lawmakers that received kick backs in campaign donations? Sure, no conflict or gas lighting there.

30. I am betting that the Republican dominated legislature will end up finding that the energy companies did nothing wrong and it was all the windmills fault

31. Just wait till a solar mass ejection hits us, no power for years. Funny thing is the powers that be have known about it as a very viable threat for decades but no backup plans or transformers to date. Good luck.

32. Why don't we have a real time American Debt watcher so we can see the debt being paid off… It can be on the news or on the internet. It can even be an app on your phone.

33. I love Texas but the Republicans running it are trash.

34. ERCOT

    ER Can’t Operate Texans

35. It's the consequence of the lack of Regulation that the Texas Republican Leadership has put in place.
    Just a repeat of 2011 but worst.
    The GOP working for the power company's, not for the people of Texas…

36. Texas will remember in the next two elections & unseat both Abbot & lyin Ted.

37. republicans cant blame them , they allow them to be

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