I had to jump out of Youtube and go look at articles in Google, but I did read it and kind of believe that Texas is suffering blackouts because of our increasing reliance on green energy. If this is what it means to be green, it is yet another reason to kick AOC right square in her ignorant ass. Believe me, I got suckered into buying solar panels for my house about 5 years ago. I have yet to feel like I won anything of an advantage in that deal. My light bill hasn't changed much plus I have an extra bill of $311 a month to pay for the solar panels for a twelve year span. They are supposedly good for twenty five years which made me go for it, but what is going to happen when the roof starts leaking and I need a new roof? I bought a huge array that is supposed to provide 85% of my power, yet I have a bill from the city every month, last month it was $159, just for electricity, plus the $311 for the panels, then another $210 for the other utilities and I am paying about $680 to run my house. That is about as cheap as the utilities get per month. I did have one month that was like $50 a year or two ago, but that does not happen when we use the ACs once it warms up. In the summer, we still pay as much as $370 or more just for electricity apart from the panels and the other utilities.
Anyways, I read that Texas is the leader in wind power. We get a little over 15% of our energy from wind turbines which sounds great until we get a winter storm the likes of what we are experiencing right now. I keep hearing of rolling blackouts here in the neighborhood which seemed to have started even before the real cold got here this weekend. Neighbors on the other side of our community have mentioned on our Facebook community bulletin that they are without power which is scary enough. A coworker also mentioned along with one of my supervisors that they had been without power which sounds like it is more than a blown transformer in the area. Now my mom, brother and sister have lost power in their homes (although they all do live next door to each other all lost power awhile ago (writing this at 1030pm, Monday).
It is one thing to trick me into paying for bullshit technology which doesn't yield me any financial gains. It is entirely something else for our great state siting more natural gas and oil than any other state to get duped into converting to "green energy" that fails when it is needed the most. We might be fine going a night or even a day, if we had to, without power, but there are elderly and sick people who shouldn't be stressed in situations where they could freeze to death in their own homes because we all have to take turns turning off our power so that these green energy sources can continue. What is the point of living in a country with an abundance of everything only to sit like idiots freezing our asses off because our leaders bought into stupidity with no contingency plan in place.
I know I sound dumb but I am going to get serious about installing a home generator or at least invest in one that I keep in my garage. Home generators are installed outside in the yard and will run off of gas or propane to power a house during an emergency. If the state is going to continue relying on "green energy", then we need to rely on ourselves during emergencies and have a back-up plan. I feel stupid for not having thought bigger and investing in some other heat source in the event we loose our power. A generator would do the trick, a heater that runs on gas or propane would also work, provided it is classified to burn indoors. I don't want to be in this worrisome situation again. We have been lucky so far, but I fear the worst right now with temperatures headed to single digits tonight.
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