Oh Noes, Rick Perry shot me up with Gardasil
on the Trans Texas Corridor which doesn’t exist!
Discussion here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-4989692/Fuel-security-power-generation-United-States-Kemp.html
In Winter 2014 “...gas-fired generators accounted for 55 percent of forced outages during the vortex, even though they represented only 40 percent of capacity in the impacted areas.
By contrast, coal-fired units accounted for 26 percent of outages and 31 percent of capacity, while nuclear generators suffered 3 percent of the outages but provided 12 percent of capacity.”
Would prefer that the whole regulation scheme be re-examined. Lot of bad rules distorting the market now.
Until it becomes possible for every supplier to construct a transmission line to your home, this concept of a “free and open electricity market” is a myth.
When a bunch of establishment Republicans get together and play the “Orthodox Conservatism” card, they are likely acting against the best interests of the American People.
Just sayin’.
Once they start breathing the air inside the DC beltway their brains begin to turn to mush.
the real question is why did Trump appoint this swamp-man to even a second tier cabinet job ?
Maybe so, but if we're going to subsidize something, and you know FedGov will, reliable power is a great thing to subsidize. Beats subsidizing wind and solar, which are NOT reliable base-load power sources.