[txcwpalpha]

This gets overlooked a lot in the outrage porn of "Texas bad".

Every single adjacent grid to Texas was also suffering from rolling or consistent blackouts during last year's February winter storm. Oklahoma had blackouts, Arkansas had blackouts, Missouri had blackouts, Louisiana had blackouts.

https://kansasreflector.com/2021/07/26/fuel-shortages-drove-...

The blackouts were not as bad as Texas and had they been on the same grid, it may have been able to spread (and lessen) the pain a little bit, but the point stands that Texas' neighbors did not have much electricity to spare.

This month is a little different because other states do have spare electricity AFAIK, but the links Texas has to those grids have relatively low capacity to share it.

[stjohnswarts]

Texas isn't bad, but Texas politicians, especially the unholy trio at the top, Abbott, Paxton, and Patrick, are clowns running an out of control side show known as the Texas government currently.

[polski-g]

None of the three people you listed have any authority to do anything about the Texas power grid.