The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(02-18-2021, 06:19 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I guess one way to avoid power generation regulation is to set up a state power grid that does not take power from outside the state.  No interstate power connection, no federal regulation.  I understand the only state to try this is Texas, and they manage to avoid the regulation that the grid has to work in freezing weather.  This results in a state wide blackout about every 10 years.

Must be worth it.

This all date to the 1930s and the Texas obsession with Federal regulation of fossil fuels.  I'm all for neighbor helping neighbor, but a spiteful neighbor doesn't deserve it.