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Memes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You can read it on any Facebook meme \u2013 or you can see it on right wing media.  Gas prices are up, power has failed in Texas.  And it\u2019s all Joe Biden\u2019s fault.  The \u201cterror\u201d of the \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d is already being blamed.  We won\u2019t be able to afford to drive our cars, and people are freezing in their houses in the Arctic vortex winter.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez must be laughing hysterically.  After all, doesn\u2019t she control what the Biden Administration does?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I call BS.  Let\u2019s talk about what\u2019s really happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGas Buddy<\/a>\u201d is a great website.  It can show you where the cheapest gas prices are in your area.  And it also tracks historic gas prices nationally, and locally.  So you can make \u201capples to apples\u201d comparisons of what\u2019s really going on.  Today, if you drive down to Kroger\u2019s, regular gas costs $2.45\/gallon (without the loyalty discounts).  That\u2019s up $.46 since election day.  One argument goes that just the \u201cthought\u201d of a Biden Administration has driven the price up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let\u2019s look at the history.  Now, February 2021, the price is $2.45.  A year ago, before anyone knew that Joe Biden was going to be President, the price was– $2.44.  Two years ago, in February 2019, the price was – $2.38.  Three years ago it was a little better – $2.25.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s the point?  That gas prices in February have trended higher for the past few years.  There\u2019s lots of reasons for that:  gas production switches over to \u201csummer\u201d blend gas, more oil is refined as fuel oil for heating rather than gasoline, the Saudi\u2019s have raised prices.  None of that has anything to do with the \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d, Ocasio-Cortez, or Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frozen Wind-Turbines<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So for those right-wing doomsayers who cry that Biden will make gas prices $4.00 a gallon:\u00a0\u00a0that might happen someday, but it ain\u2019t happening yet.\u00a0\u00a0We all know the story of the \u201cBoy who cried wolf\u201d, and they\u2019re doing a lot of crying now.\u00a0\u00a0The Biden Administration will try to make the United States more energy efficient, and climate friendly.\u00a0\u00a0But it hasn\u2019t happened yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what about Texas the home to gas, oil, \u201cTexas Tea\u201d, and wildcat drilling?  The arctic vortex has drifted all the way down to Dallas, with several inches of snow and ice, sub-twenty-degree temperatures, and three million people without power.  And, according to the Facebook memes and the Governor, it\u2019s all because Texans have switched to \u201cwind power\u201d and the wind turbines have frozen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one has ever claimed that Texas was in the fore-front of the environmental movement.  But the \u201cGreat Plains\u201d do lend themselves to frequent winds, and the wind power industry is taking advantage.  A full SEVEN percent of Texas power is provided by wind turbines.  So how did those FROZEN wind turbines shut down the Texas power grid?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ninety-Three Percent<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

They didn\u2019t.\u00a0\u00a0Texas has a separate energy grid, with the vast majority of power generation based on natural gas, oil, coal and nuclear.\u00a0\u00a0But the problem is this:\u00a0\u00a0the power generators in Texas \u201cbet\u201d that the once a decade cold snap wouldn\u2019t be too bad.\u00a0\u00a0So they didn\u2019t protect the energy generating sources, particularly natural gas.\u00a0\u00a0When this cold snap hit, the natural gas pumps literally froze up, and couldn\u2019t pump the natural gas out of the ground to be burned for electricity.\u00a0\u00a0Even some of the nuclear plants have shut down, their cooling pumps frozen by the sub-freezing temperatures.\u00a0\u00a0And yes, the wind-turbines are frozen too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But those same turbines aren\u2019t frozen here in Ohio where the current temperature is three degrees, Fahrenheit.\u00a0\u00a0They have been winterized, as well as the natural gas electric plants and even the two nuclear plants.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What You Pay For<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Think of Texas like that \u201cspecial\u201d car you only drive in the summer.\u00a0\u00a0No reason for snow tires, and no reason to check the anti-freeze.\u00a0\u00a0No need to protect it, because you don\u2019t ever bring it out, stored in the warm garage for the cold, cold winter.\u00a0\u00a0So when all of a sudden you decide to take it out in February, would you be surprised that the tires don\u2019t grip and the radiator freezes up?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Texas power industry \u201cbet\u201d on the weather, and they lost.\u00a0\u00a0And now the regulators in Texas, like the Governor, are taking the \u201cheat\u201d (or getting the \u201ccold shoulder”) from the millions of Texans left out in the cold without power.\u00a0\u00a0So it\u2019s easier to blame Biden, or Ocasio-Cortez, than to take responsibility for their own failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texas wanted cheap energy.\u00a0\u00a0And it was cheap for a reason, and not just because it was sitting in the ground for the drilling.\u00a0They got what they paid for.\u00a0 Bet they wished they\u2019d put a few more dollars in now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Memes You can read it on any Facebook meme \u2013 or you can see it on right wing media.  Gas prices are up, power has failed in Texas.  And it\u2019s all Joe Biden\u2019s fault.  The \u201cterror\u201d of the \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d is already being blamed.  We won\u2019t be able to afford to drive our cars, and people are freezing … Continue reading “Biden’s Fault”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBiden's Fault : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Governor of Texas blames the Green New Deal for the state's power failures. 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