ERCOT CEO said of a similar proposal to House Bill 3356 and Senate Bill 715 “we would lose energy resources” and face an “energy deficit,” which would raise costs: "everybody pays for that"
Someone save me, please. I am 73 and fear I may go to my grave not understanding something that should be as clear as anything could be. Given an hour of classroom time I could explain to a class of Middle School students, the lunacy of S.B. 819, S.B. 388, S.B.715 and H.B 3356, and they’d get it. If Middle School kids could get it, what’s with the Texas Legislature? How can, otherwise intelligent individuals, I assume most, or all college educated put their names on such bad legislation and pass the red-faced test? My question is; What is the motivation to be a Legislative Buffon? Is it blind adherence to misplaced ideology, compulsion the shine the boots of natural gas industry campaign donors, or not even the slightest inkling how the ERCOT electricity market works? What is it?
Someone save me, please. I am 73 and fear I may go to my grave not understanding something that should be as clear as anything could be. Given an hour of classroom time I could explain to a class of Middle School students, the lunacy of S.B. 819, S.B. 388, S.B.715 and H.B 3356, and they’d get it. If Middle School kids could get it, what’s with the Texas Legislature? How can, otherwise intelligent individuals, I assume most, or all college educated put their names on such bad legislation and pass the red-faced test? My question is; What is the motivation to be a Legislative Buffon? Is it blind adherence to misplaced ideology, compulsion the shine the boots of natural gas industry campaign donors, or not even the slightest inkling how the ERCOT electricity market works? What is it?
These attacks on energy generation, led by gov't regulation, don't square with the light touch Texas model.
I don't get it.