It’s quite a drama. Lots of officials scrambling to deflect the blame or obscure the shortcomings of their planning. When the news reports cite the ridiculous prices paid for energy during the scramble to keep the Texas grid functioning, I could not help but recall Enron and the fact that it was a Texas company.
I’m reading speculation that the Left might somehow have set Texas up for this fall. It seems half way plausible: dangle money in front of powerful individuals to invest in the wrong sorts of power systems that would inevitably fail when a strong enough cold snap occurred. More likely it was just short term thinking and greed for quick profits.
I made the statement from the get go that the energy "crisis" was mostly red states and retaliation for supporting trump. I have been told I was wrong. I still stand by my beliefs.
There is no doubt that wells and pumps froze, but there is enough gas in reserves to handle the situation and the means to get it to the power stations that use it as well as homes. If the gov of texas had the means to order additional power be generated, emissions output be damned, then he should have regardless of what the feds may have ordered.