Trashy AOC Celebrates Fact that Texans Are Without Power and Have Died
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Trashy AOC Celebrates Fact that Texans Are Without Power and Have Died

GEEZ! What is wrong with these braindead liberal pieces of trash like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

How is it that they love to celebrate the misfortune and even the death of other people?

Currently, about 70% of the country has been experiencing a massive winter storm where snow, ice, and freezing rain has been sweeping across the country from California to Alabama and even over to the east coast in some locations.

There have been millions of people without power because of the storm and there have even been some people who have died as a result of the storm.

AOC, being the trash that she is, decided to take the opportunity to celebrate the fact that people have lost power and died as a result. She pointed out that if they would have just did the Green New Deal of hers that this wouldn’t have happened. I guess she doesn’t realize that wind turbines have frozen up and they’ve been having to use fossil fuels to fix them. Not to mention the solar panels

AOC tweeted,

“The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don’t* pursue a Green New Deal.

Weak on sweeping next-gen public infrastructure investments, little focus on equity so communities are left behind, climate deniers in leadership so they don’t long prep for disaster.

We need to help people *now.* Long-term we must realize these are the consequences of inaction.”

There were, however, some people who were quick to call her out on how wrong she is.

Former congressman Denver Riggleman tweeted,

This is “quite literally” false

There are many factors that contributed to the Texas situation, most evident being a winter storm (things like cold and ice) and lack of preparation.

Facts and analysis are the answer, not rhetoric.

In fact, Chuck DeVote from the Texas Public Policy Foundation explained how Texas’ subsidies for green energy may have exacerbated the problem:

Two problems in #Texas, one short-term and exacerbated by the long term issue, and one long term. The short term failure came at about 1 AM Monday when #ERCOT should have seen the loads soaring due to plummeting temperatures and arranged for more generation. Texas came very close to having a system-wide outage for the whole state (ERCOT area, about 85% of the state) due to not arranging for more generation. This tripped the grid, knocking some reliable thermal plants (gas and coal) offline.

This was a failure of the grid operator (ERCOT) not the power plants. In the last 4-5 years, Texas lost a net of 3,000 megawatts of thermal out of a total installed capacity 73,000 megawatts today. We lost the thermal power because operators couldn’t see a return on investment due to be undercut by wind and solar which is cheap for two reasons – it’s subsidized and it doesn’t have to pay for the costs of grid reliability by purchasing battery farms or contracting with gas peaker plants to produce power when needed, not when they can.

Meanwhile, Texas has seen a growth of 20,000 megawatts of wind and solar over the same period to 34,000 megawatts of installed capacity (they rarely perform anywhere close to capacity). This subsidized (state and federal) wind and solar have pushed reliable thermal operators out of business or prevented new generation from being built as operators can’t make money off of the market. This reduced the capacity margin – grids must have excess capacity to ensure stability. Texas is experiencing what California has – with California affecting the entire Western Interconnection due to its policies. Blackouts are a feature of the push to have more unreliable renewables on the grid. Must pay $$ for reliable backup w/ renewables.

Sources:
Daily Wire

Written by Jon Archer - February 20, 2021