• 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.

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[–] 129 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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  • [–] 89 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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