oil and gas republicans

For honest comparison sake can you tell us How much did the democrats take in?

haha it's probably all hidden by a complex network of fund transfers

Its not my job to do your homework for you....

But you are right.. they took in money too.. overall Republicans consist of 85% of all oil and gas donations to political campaigns while Democrats were given 15% of all donations made by oil and gas. This is according to the non partisan research group called Center for Responsive Politics.

So, does that make them any less hypocritical?

No... but it also doesn't make my statement in the meme false either.. What I said is still true.

Yes, it is still true, but the Dems are just the other side of the same coin. Neither side is any less innocent

Why would oil and gas donate to democrats, who promise to shut them down?

yeah most of their money went to Texas politicians too.. you know.. the politicians who took all the regulations off of oil and gas companies ... and then their power failed because those companies didn't winterize their equipment.. because Texas is the ONLY state of all 50 states that does not follow the Federal Power Act which requires companies to winterize their equipment. Alaska doesn't even have shutdowns at all because they follow the Federal Power Act. I guess all that oil and gas money was worth it to hurt their own citizens in Texas..

By the way, we Texans are intimately familiar with the cause of the outages. 40% of the failed power supply were renewables - solar and wind. Solar doesn't work under a foot of snow, and the wind turbines froze up. If they were winterized, they would burn up in the Texas summers.

and btw... the picture of helicopters de-icing a wind mill that was widely spread at the time when Texas was blaming renewables.. wasn't from Texas.. it was from Sweden.. and used by Texas propagandists to blame renewables. 23% of Texas Power is Renewables.. Let's see what the Texas Tribune has to say on the subject: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-frozen/

I never said anything about it. You can spew that strawman bullshit somewhere else.

And you are incorrect there as well.. accoridng to the Texas report.. only 10% were renewables.. and guess what.. The Federal Power Act would have required even the renewables to be winterized. Accoridng to the Texas reports.. The main outage they had were the Natural Gas Pipelines shutting down Natural Gas Plants...

I would be happy to start posting reports.. but lemme start with the 2021 Texas Power Crisis WIKI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis

Hahahahah, wikipedia? Please, you may as well label yourself a liar. I got my info from ERCOT.

I'll trust data from the entity representing the power producers oner BS from cnn, cbs, and usa today.

By the way.. when you get your info from the company that should be criminally liable for the deaths of citizens due to their negligence.. you just might not be getting the correct information.. you are getting the corporate spin on things.

Winterizing for weather that doesn't normally occur (once in a decade) causes outages in the summer months.

Thats funny.. because Texas wasn't the only state affected by that once in a decade weather event.. They were just the only ones not prepared for it..

The texas grid is isolated from the two other major grids in the usa. Other states could rely on grid stability when they couldn't produce enough locally.

This wasn't the first time Texas has had a power crisis due to not winterizing their event. It happened in 2011 and there was a plan that was made to fix it. And because of Texas no regulations on power companies. They were not required to make the improvements that were known to be needed for the last 10 years. So it happened again. The report on it for this time will mirror the 2011 report. But because of Texas non regulation policy, once again those companies will be required to do nothing. The problem is the lack of regulation for their own power grid.

Well the cost is significantly more upfront capital to get the factory installed ice protection systems. You cant bilk tax dollars off the project top if you spend all the .oney on the proper equipment. Winterizing causing outages in the summer!!! Haha

Why then is the governor pushing to retrofit the systems in the future?

I still cant get over the summer outage cause. That is hilarious. I worked on weather equipment for the USAF, and the only one piece of EQ that was different, was the cloud height indicator (for the closeness to the equitor, and the angle in which the sun could burn the receiver). Other than that, all equipment worked everywhere, hardened.

Insulation on generators and pipelines to keep the cold out in winter traps heat in the summer.

Weather equipment doesn't generate heat. That argument doesn't have any relevance.

Turbines dont generate heat neither. I am not talking about your shittybond turbines. AMD all of its failures. I am talking about your shitty wind turbines.

Insulating a gas pipeline goes nothing in the summer.

Sure thing, you're the wind turbine expert!... So why then, if there's no heat, do they spill lubricant when they fail - they spill oil. That oil is a lubricant to combat FRICTION from the turbine. Friction leads to heat, no matter how much lubrication is present. Heat leads to loss of oil viscosity - which is why wind turbines get regular oil changes.....Unless Mobil is lying about their wind turbine service and product offerings....

https://www.mobil.com/en/lubricants/for-businesses/industrial/lubricant-expertise/sectors/power-generation-industry-lubricants/wind-energy

So do they generate heat or not? One moment no, now yes...

Can you explain how insulating a pipe makes it fail, because of heat?

Insulating a system that generates heat prevents dissipation of that heat. When a lubricated system gets too cold, the lubricant thickens and prevents the turbine from spinning.

There's a sweet spot where lubrication systems will operate. Too cold or too hot and the oil is either too thick to allow movement or too thin to lubricate. This is why your car engine has different oil recommendations based on the climate where the car is operated.

Do you really have no mechanical aptitude at all?

https://www.machinerylubrication.com/Read/30197/choose-engine-oil

So?