Surely this ERCOT outfit will have to change its name, at a bare minimum. The “R” in ERCOT stands for reliability, which is a joke in itself after what we in Texas endured. 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” zealots 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?
So there was another big event, and it took place only hours before the temperature plunged into the deep freeze and the power went dead. CBS kept promoting their big, breaking news event for Sunday evening. Anderson Cooper interviewed Bill Gates. While Gates told everybody they needed to stop whatever they’re doing and map out a strategy for getting to “carbon zero,” the temperature plunged and the lights and heat ceased working.
It’s starting to look like these “global warming” aficionados are bringing ice-age events upon civilization. This is hardly the first time that frigid cold has accompanied dire warnings about population displacement and DEATH as a result of their favorite scam. We’re not sure what microprocessors and software have to do with climate, but apparently Mr. Gates of Microsoft fame thinks he’s mastered every subject, and needs to lecture us children on how smart he and the earnest CNN jokers are, and speak to the rest of us like we’re in kindergarten.
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 wind turbines. They don’t last forever, after all, and won’t pay for themselves over their expected lifetime. Does nobody consider how they are made, what it costs to transport them to their location or what will be done when they cease to produce energy? 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. London learned that the windmills freeze up and cease to work. There were unforgettable photographs of them at sea, encased in ice, with giant icicles 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. 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.
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 kept out even to wait for adjudication. Six thousand unaccompanied minors in a single 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 of New York and Brylcreem of California. Or, though it seems impossible, maybe the fraudulent election will get looked at, but let’s not get our hopes up.
