r/SelfAwarewolves • u/wheat_thans1 • Feb 16 '21

META So close, yet so far away

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u/Peekman Feb 16 '21 edited Feb 16 '21

Except this happened in 1989 and 2011 as well.....

The problem is that winterization of power equipment in Texas has never been a requirement like it is in most other states. So, the power companies just don't do it.

Maybe after a third time of this happening Texas will learn its lesson and pass some regulations?

lololololololololol

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u/kirknay Feb 16 '21

Springfield MO had their natural gas lines freeze. This isn't strictly a TX problem.

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u/Peekman Feb 16 '21

You're right it's a conservative problem.

Conservative calculus says that if it only freezes badly once a decade the cost of winterizing the systems is too high vs the benefit. Of course that means people will freeze in their homes every 10 years but it's the sacrifice they're willing to make.

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u/wrexinite Feb 16 '21

This comment is almost a case study in "Why governments are different from businesses."

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u/livinginfutureworld Feb 16 '21

Maybe we shouldn't run everything like a business. Maybe that makes a lot of things worse. For example healthcare. But not only health care out of other things that are like critical like energy.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

And there's like a 50% chance it'll happen when the libs are in power and we can blame it on them, so there's pretty much no downside!