Greetings from Tyler,
The “R” Stands for “Reliability”
Surely this ERCOT outfit will have to change its name, at a bare minimum. It seems that the government has been “subsidizing” these giant wind farms over the past decade or so, and that relieved Texas of the need for coal and natural gas power plants. It was enough to get off the radar of the “green” idiots while at the same time adding to Texas’ ability to claim that a “sizable percentage” of the grid was made up of “renewable energy.” Just makes you feel warm all over, doesn’t it?
Everybody knows what happened, but that’s not quite the same as having lived through the experience. It would be good to have heat in your house when the temperature goes to zero Fahrenheit, and stays there for a couple of days. Now they’re holding hearings where the engineers try to bamboozle the public by talking over everybody’s head. We can hardly wait for their conclusions, but their excuses are mostly meaningless now. We’ll be surprised if the families of the dead don’t sue the “reliable” energy corporation out of existence.
There are a lot of problems with these idolatrous monstrosities. They are an icon of lunacy, romanticized in countless advertisements over the years. Mostly children or dogs staring wondrously out the car window as they drive by the green miracle. But they’re 240 feet tall. You know what happens when they get hit by lightning? That’s not a rare occurrence. They’ve got a “brain” full of electronics, which don’t do so well when fried.
Another thing, small though it may be, is that they don’t pay for themselves during their expected lifetime. You’ll probably be banned for life if you repeat that anywhere, as with anything that disputes the “conventional wisdom.”
London learned that the windmills freeze up and cease to work. There were unforgettable photographs of them at sea, encased in ice, with giant icebergs descending from their blades. But that never happens in Texas, until it does. It did, and it lasted nearly a week. We’d almost forgotten the cold and heavy snow of 1983, and that’s probably because no one froze to death, or was killed by carbon monoxide poisoning trying to survive. If you’re making something hot to drink and the TV is on, it’s not so bad.
Just like “green energy” for big cities, nothing else makes much sense either. We’re being lectured, scolded and warned around the clock. They’re coming up with punishments for whoever refuses to fall into line. The so-called “Equality Act” has already passed the House, and thankfully won’t (we hope) become law. It’s the freak show for girls’ sports and public facilities everywhere, and as usual, they named it something it’s not. It seems the depths of left-wing depravity know few bounds.
Everything we moaned over for the past decade is brand new again, and the self-destruction of the United States is back on track. Do you think for one minute that the Middle East peace arrangement will be spared? Probably not. After all, that rude, brash, America-loving President they blindly hated brought it about. No, they’re working overtime to get us back in the Iran Nuclear Deal, the Paris Climate Accords, and every international body out to hurt the United States.
The news anchors are breathing easier now that unaccompanied minors are streaming across the border, and the new (supposed) administration says they can’t be sent back, even to wait for adjudication. Six thousand last week, according to the happy reports. What’s that about?
We bet you’re starving for some hint of good news, and we are too. Maybe they won’t get everything they want. Maybe there’s some strain of sanity that remains in high places, not much, mind you. Maybe they’ll start to turn on each other, as they have with Cuomo and Brylcreem of California. Or, though it seems impossible, maybe the fraudulent election will get looked at, but let’s not get carried away.
Mark
PS: It should have been in last week’s update, but things were a little hairy around here. We’re just completing another run of 21st Century WATCH ads on One America News. It is producing results, but it seems we’ll never reach the cost-effectiveness of my Dad’s television shows from years past. A lot has changed since then. Too much. But we’re not quitting, and we’re certainly not about to lie down for this onslaught of nonsense, no matter what they (the government, the corporations, academia and big tech) threaten.
Source: http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/fridayupdates.php
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