In addition to pointing out this meme’s amnesia of CA electric grid failures, the water crisis is not in all of MS, it’s in Jackson. Which has a Democratic mayor and 6/7 council members are Democrats.
https://ballotpedia.org/Jackson,_Mississippi#City_council
▪️As for TX’s electric grid, it ironically has the most renewable energy production of any state, particularly for wind. This has made the grid highly vulnerable to periods when wind drops off, and highly dependent on gas as its only reliable backup.
https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=TX
▪️In 2009, coal-fired plants generated ~37% of Texas’s electricity while wind provided ~6%. Since then, 3 Texas coal-fired plants have closed & the use of wind power has more than quadrupled In the same period, energy consumption rose by 20%.
https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fiscal-notes/2020/august/ercot.php
▪️To pre-empt the objection that it was gas and not renewables that failed in the great freeze of ‘21, this ignores that wind and solar provided virtually 0 power during the crisis (chart posted in comments). They would have been far worse off with more renewables, not better. Many areas with far harsher winters have resilient fossil fuel grids.
▪️And there are no new plans for additional nuclear or coal plants in TX, only more solar and wind (and some gas for backup). Thus, in a sense Republicans have screwed up their electric grid, but not in the sense this meme would assume.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2022/01/11/to-keep-up-with-growth-texas-needs-more-big-baseload-electric-power-plants/
It’s just so wild to see these movements see saw, it feels like just yesterday that conservatives were boycotting Disney and the left was gloating.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
