Texas Gov Spearheaded winter price gouge

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/busine ... dium=email

The former chief of Texas’s power grid testified today that Greg Abbott *instructed* officials to charge the maximum amount for power during the winter storm. Texans still owe $3.4 billion.

[Draco Dracul]

Probably why he decide to wage war on trans kids. Man's a monster.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Yep. Poor kids may as well have a target sign on their back and SCAPEGOAT written on their foreheads. =/

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Abbot said to "do what you have to do" to keep the power running without rolling blackouts.

In order to attract more energy suppliers to the grid, the operators adjusted the regulated price between consumers and suppliers to its max at $9,000, specifically to attract larger scale suppliers to the grid while the factories they normally power aren't in operation.

The buck seems to stop at Abbot in that case, but this seems largely a departmental or policy issue.