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BasroilII t1_j1imdc3 wrote

Reply to comment by ParaNormalBeast in At least 9 dead as massive winter storm leaves more than a million without power and bitter cold across much of US | CNN by bobybobobo

There's a gigantic difference though.

The outages in Tesas were less because of the storm, and more because of two things:

  1. Deregulation of the power industry allowing them to ignore crucially needed winterizing;

  2. The people of Texas voting to NOT tie into the nation's grid.

If they hadn't voted that way, no one in Texas would have died, most likely. They might not have even had many lose power.

The one in the Northeast? No one voted to set up their state so that they would have no backup. It wasn't caused by corrupt companies ignoring regulations. It was just a powerful storm.

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