Captain planet with everybody

San Francisco, California: Gavin Newsom was mayor of San Francisco before governor of California. San Francisco is the only city in the country with an online crap map showing where the homeless people are crapping on the sidewalks.

Conservatives: Climate change isn't real.

Also conservatives: Lol, California on fire and no water.

Don’t know much about this state, so you?

When you live in a mostly green(trees, grass, etc, not politics) country(or in this case a state) and there is a sudden need for water rationing then it's time to change management.

It's extraordinary that Californians live in a dumb run by greedy megalomaniacs and still vote them in.

The sheeple have their heads dug firmly in the sand.

"live in a dumb"

Ironic

I mean, I live here. It’s beautiful, I was raised here, it’s 73 and sunny, but policy wise, no doubt it’s turning into “a dumb.”

Do not forget the needles, feces, and narcotics poluted waters! Oh oh and smog! California leading the world!

Calif has a knack for screwing up the simplest of plans

There’s water rationing, forest fires and unworkable business regulations in Texas? That’s the first time I’ve never heard of that.

Its getting there. People keep coming from commiefornia to here because of the problems and then vote for the same problems.

List of every city in Texas with water restrictions: https://www.tceq.texas.gov/drinkingwater/trot/droughtw.html

Specifically, Gunter TX had to shut down all 'non essential' water usages to avoid running out of water completely.

600,000 acres burned this summer: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/nearly-600000-acres-burned-texas-in-2022/3036049/

of course, in 2021 the grid failed in February. An estimated 800 people died. The only thing that saved the grid this summer was the wind and solar farms.

All of this is due to the deregulation that republicans have put in. It keeps everything on the edge of disaster because it's "more efficient and cost effective" to not repair or upgrade the infrastructure.

You’re gonna have to expand on that last paragraph a little. Disasters are bad, everyone agrees.

Sure. This is the thing that changed my mind about industries being regulated.

Okay, so the Texas power grid was deregulated back in the 90s. They took a hands off approach to the grid and the companies that ran it.

That way, the companies could 'run things in the most efficient manner possible' which would result in lower prices for everyone.

It seems like a reasonable thing to me, as an energy consumer.

But what does that mean? Efficient. What, functionally, does that mean?

It means doing the least amount of work for the least amount of money. You're doing the most you can with the least amount that you can.

So, is it efficient to build a special building that is climate controlled to isolate your equipment from the weather or is it more efficient to let that equpment set out side?

Outside, of course. Why would you maintain a building when you don't have to pay for one? You wouldn't.

Why would you replace or upgrade equipment before it breaks? In the name of efficiency, you wouldn't. It's more efficient (cheaper) to wait until something breaks to fix it. If you don't have to spend money on something, you are being efficient. You have lowered your costs.

And that's the Texas grid (and infrastructure). It's old, because it hasn't broken yet and why replace what hasn't broken yet? At any given moment, it's 10 to 15 minutes away from a total shutdown due to bad weather.

That's what the rolling blackouts are for, btw. Efficiency. Spreading the pain around so they don't have to upgrade their equipment to handle the higher heat and the colder cold.

I live in Texas. We have higher energy bills now than every before because of 2021. We'll be paying for it for the next few decades, Billions of dollars are going to go to those companies. And for what?

Nothing.

Because it's not efficient to upgrade or maintain something. Just wait until it breaks.

California policy is the problem.

Deregulating the powergrid in the 90's is a California policy?

Refusing to invest in the public water system is a California policy? That makes sense to you when you say it out loud?

What are you talking about?

I am pointing out that Texas's gimp-ass power grid is a result of deregulation. If a business is not required to maintain and upgrade its network, why should it until something breaks?

Does that sound like a liberaly thing to let happen? Or would a California policy regulate the industry and require it to regularly update its grid?

I am pointing out that equating what's happening in Texas as a "california policy" is ridiculous. If it were a liberal policy, Texas would be a Blue state.

I like how he took everything you just said about Texas and tried to blame it on California

Right?

Like, admit you were uninformed. It's not a big deal.