• Texas power prices soared 20,000% Wednesday evening amid another brutal heat wave.

  • Spot electricity prices topped $5,000 per megawatt-hour, up more than 200 times from Wednesday morning.

  • The state’s grid operator issued its second-highest energy emergency, then later said conditions returned to normal.

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    You are kind of owned, since these red states fucking up just means that more of your tax money will go to saving these idiots from themselves through federal aid

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      As another fellow Washingtonian, I’m getting pretty tired of subsidizing willful stupidity.

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        Red states are a luxury we can’t afford anymore. They need to pull themselves up by their freedom bootstraps and start turning a profit, or the spigot turns off.

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          Man, red states are much different here and there. Here red state means communist state, in US it is exact opposite.

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        honestly it’s not willful for a lot of residents there because of gerrymandering instead of redistricting.

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      Never should have let the southern states back in like we did.

      We should have hanged every last confederate.

      It’s not too late though.