[SeeSac]

Screw ERCOT and the PUC We need to get rid of ERCOT and the PUC and then let the free market distribute energy. While this crisis during the icestorm would have been much worse had we been fully regulated (we would have had long blackouts, not just brownouts) ERCOT really screwed the pooch on this one and gave the uneducated liberals a talking point on how deregulation failed, even though we’re not truly deregulated.

Please explain how ERCOT screwed the pooch on this one.

[veritas3]

One thing I’m confused by....in the summer Texas sells electricity to California and other states. Why can’t they buy it from them during these winter problems? Also have they released numbers re the amount of electricity used? I would seem difficult to use more at 15 degrees in Feb than 110 in August......with every AC compressor in the state running hard.