Good thing Texans want to kill off renewable energy in favour of burning more fossil fuels. I’m sure that’ll help.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/us/politics/renewable-energy-republicans.html
It’s mid-May, so August should be a lot of fun.
Doesn’t make much difference for Texans, because their brains are fried already, and their only response is: “Global warming is a hoax.” Which they repeat as maybe a mantra. Hard to tell by now whether it may be some sort of prayer?
They will just burn more fossil fuels and crank up the AC.
The GOP is actually trying to cancel solar projects in Texas right now. The stupidity is so thick you need a spoon to eat it.
Until their crappy isolated power grid will break again. Making people wonder where all the government money to fix and fortify the Texas power grid actually went…
Ted Cruz’s daughters are probably asking him if they can go to Greenland for vacation right now.
So after that massive power outage in Spain a few weeks back, I’ve been wondering a lot if we’re going to be seeing many blackouts and examples of our own power grids mysteriously being attacked during heat waves over the summer? Followed by no real answer about what happened, except maybe vaguely blamed on “Russians?”
Seems like a tactic this administration would use in order to crush dissent.
I actually think the opposite effect would happen. I recall reading that increases in violence correlate with seasonal temperature increases. If we couple that with widespread blackouts occurring in the US during major heat waves, things might reach an actual fever pitch. No longer placated by escapism via phone and Internet, we’d have nowhere to place our rage against the machine but outside our sweltering abodes and in the streets. Dissent might ironically be more locally collective and effective when you can’t do fuck all but go outside.
Without normal comms though, it could be a shitshow that this administration could take advantage of, e.g. how much easier disappearing people would be. Wouldn’t put “accidental” outages past em anyway.
But overall I’ve noticed the DOE hasn’t faced nearly as much doge cage rattling when it comes to the power administration. I have to wonder if the planners of this maga takeover are being extra cautious in making sure the critical creature comforts like stable electricity are maintained to minimize true upset.
