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TEX NEEDS POWER FROM MEX TO KEEP LIGHTS ON
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Posted on 02/03/2011 10:37:58 AM PST by dragnet2
Mexico supplies electricity to wintry Texas
MEXICO CITY (AFP) – Mexico's state electricity company on Wednesday started supplying electricity to the US state of Texas, where demand shot up amid unusually cold temperatures and caused power outages.
Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission "was determined to support Texas with electrical energy faced with the problems the state is suffering due to climatological conditions," a statement said.
An energy transfer of 280 megawatts began at midday (1800 GMT) via the north Mexican border cities of Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Piedras Negras, it added.
Texas Governor Rick Perry said in a statement that power and emergency management experts were working with utility providers to ensure power was restored as quickly as possible.
"Until that happens, I urge businesses and residents to conserve electricity to minimize the impact of this event," Perry added.
TOPICS: Front Page News; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: border; electricity; energy; ercot; globalcooling; messwithtexas; texas
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Mexico rescues Texas.....
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posted on
02/03/2011 10:38:03 AM PST
by
dragnet2
To: dragnet2
Maybe Texans can vote out open-border RINOs like Perry, Kay Bailey and Cornyn and stop worry about nonsense like football.
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posted on
02/03/2011 10:39:58 AM PST
by
Frantzie
(HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
To: dragnet2
Maybe Texans can vote out open-border RINOs like Perry, Kay Bailey and Cornyn and stop worry about nonsense like football.
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posted on
02/03/2011 10:40:08 AM PST
by
Frantzie
(HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
To: Frantzie
Texas needs to build more power plants and drill for more oil. Very simple. Defund and get rid of EPA and 9/10 of the other alphabet bureaucrats.
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posted on
02/03/2011 10:44:06 AM PST
by
brushcop
(CW4 Matthew Lourey CW2 Joshua Scott/ Kiowa pilots KIA Iraq '05. Thank you for our son's life.)
To: brushcop
And shut down the anti-nuke groups. After what TXU went thru to build the Comanche Peak plant, they will never try again without protections from these eco-saboteurs.
To: dragnet2
Is it true that the DHS is asking each illegal to string a 200 ft. extension cord across the border when they come?
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posted on
02/03/2011 10:51:54 AM PST
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: dragnet2
I don’t get it one minute some of you people scream about an open world market and the next you are crying about buying off of the world market. So which is? ????
To: dragnet2
Wha hoppen, windmills couldn't carry the load? I thought windmills were the Messiah of energy supply?
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posted on
02/03/2011 10:54:56 AM PST
by
chimera
To: dragnet2
It’s nice to see something come over the border legally.
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posted on
02/03/2011 10:55:44 AM PST
by
Made In The USA
(This post may be recorded for quality purposes.)
To: org.whodat
I don’t get it one minute some of you people scream about an open world market and the next you are crying about buying off of the world market. So which is? ????Obviously you are NOT A TEXAN. It's not about economics, its about pride !
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posted on
02/03/2011 10:57:40 AM PST
by
SecondAmendment
(Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
To: org.whodat
I don’t get it one minute some of you people scream about an open world market and the next you are crying about buying off of the world market. So which is? Buying off? What? What are you talking about?
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posted on
02/03/2011 10:58:45 AM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Kartographer
Ohhhhh....Get a big extension cord for Texas!
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posted on
02/03/2011 11:00:01 AM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Frantzie
Maybe Texans can vote out open-border RINOs like Perry, Kay Bailey and Cornyn and stop worry about nonsense like football.
In good times football was OK...But since the collapse, watching millionaire lumberheads and paroles arrive in limos, then run around on a field just doesn't seem very exciting anymore..
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posted on
02/03/2011 11:03:11 AM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: dragnet2
Gosh, I would have thought all those giant windmill spread across the the panhandle to Amarillo would make more than enough power to run a modern, industrialized state like Texas. This didn't happen when Texas was covered with oil rigs and Jensen Jacks.
If you find yourself sitting in the cold and dark, your electricity off, freezing in a rolling green out, give Barry a call, and ask him where all your green energy is when you need it.
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posted on
02/03/2011 11:08:33 AM PST
by
pallis
To: dragnet2
Do we have the right to free world markets are do we not, and do you support open free world markets. Not nuclear science??? Buying electrical Power from Mexico is no different than buying oil from Canada.
To: dragnet2
Let's not forget the democrats aka liberals involvement in this: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Coal_plants_cancelled_in_2007
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posted on
02/03/2011 11:13:09 AM PST
by
theymakemesick
( islam - inspired by Satan www.prophetofdoom.net)
To: dragnet2
reminds me of what Steyn said “doesn’t anything work in this 3rd world country any more?”
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posted on
02/03/2011 11:13:28 AM PST
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge, MA grad student. Any potential conservative Christian FReepmail-FRiends out there?)
To: 5thGenTexan
That might be an idea to build nukes across the border to supply parts of Texas with electricity.
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posted on
02/03/2011 11:17:48 AM PST
by
Rio
To: Christian Engineer Mass
reminds me of what Steyn said “doesn’t anything work in this 3rd world country any more?” Texas is going to owe Mexico big.....
The Mexican government must be laughing there butts off.
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posted on
02/03/2011 11:19:07 AM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: dragnet2
TEX NEEDS POWER FROM MEX TO KEEP LIGHTS ON
Is it being brought up by illegal aliens in backpacks?
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posted on
02/03/2011 11:20:51 AM PST
by
righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a U.S. Marine.)
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