Sen. Cruz finally shuts his mouth

When asked about his tweets bashing California energy policies, while 3 million Texans are without power: "I have no defense."

i doubt that quote!!!
fake news!

i doubt that quote!!!
fake news! Originally Posted by oeb11

Here's the actual tweet.

Good on him for owning it. Ted just moved up several ranks in my book. To think, a politician who owns up to shit he said? What's this world coming to?

Well ok. But TX did this because of a single weather event. Cali constantly has power outages all year!

Well ok. But TX did this because of a single weather event. Cali constantly has power outages all year! Originally Posted by buzzlghtyr401

And all their forests are burning because they stopped performing brush clearing.

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Originally Posted by oeb11
i doubt that quote!!!
fake news!

GG- Here's the actual tweet.

Good on him for owning it. Ted just moved up several ranks in my book. To think, a politician who owns up to shit he said? What's this world coming to?
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Thank You - GG - I stand corrected.

Cruz heads for Cancun in the midst of the power failures
Overheard on the airplane saying "It will be in the 70s next week. What are they complaining about ? Our capital riot lasted longer than that."

Oh Ted....looks like you are the only one who didn't get it

One was a bad storm unpredictable carfornia it goes off just because it get used.

Here's the actual tweet.

Good on him for owning it. Ted just moved up several ranks in my book. To think, a politician who owns up to shit he said? What's this world coming to? Originally Posted by GastonGlock

This is really a nonstory but you have all the media outlets in Cali and NYDC needing a distraction from Biden and Cuomo. Ted won't be deicing any windmills.

Well ok. But TX did this because of a single weather event. Cali constantly has power outages all year! Originally Posted by buzzlghtyr401

This. But I have to stress this isnt a "hundred year event." This happened in Houston 3-4 years ago and nobody batted an eye. No massive loss of power.

The magic number is 32. Utilities and all the rest are not going to spend money to winterize their various equipment in places like Texas. Would you ?

And all their forests are burning because they stopped performing brush clearing. Originally Posted by GastonGlock

It is not just Cali...


There was a time, he said, when fires flared up naturally—after a lightning strike, for example—and simply burned themselves out. This regular phenomenon served to keep the density of trees relatively low, which also meant fires tended to be relatively localized. New trees that sprouted after a fire also didn’t have the time to grow as tall as old growth, as the next fire would consume them but spare the older, taller pines. This process repeated with each fire.

But all that changed when humans began to see fires as threats. In his book Collapse, Jared Diamond tells us that in the early 20th century, the US Forest Service began interfering in this natural cycle. They felt they had to protect homes and lives; they also could not allow valuable timber to simply burn down. So, it became official Forest Service policy to fight and extinguish forest fires.

Over several decades, the Forest Service pursued this policy with extraordinary success. But the result is forests that are denser and even more prone to fires. Not only that, newer trees, previously kept in check, now grow unhindered, approaching the height of old growth pines. So, these forests are choked with trees that tend to catch fire and are also tall—a recipe for fire on a different scale altogether.

Yup, and the fire gets too hot now, and kills things it didn't previously. So now they're more harmful.