The WORST PRESIDENT IN US HISTORY.. TRUMP

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

" NICE TRY ", La La.

I have seen, twice in my life the following pertaining to semi's and Chains, for going UP STEEP GRADES.

A few miles outside of Seattle, on I-90E, For climbing UP (I think) the Cascade Mountains, AND on I-80E in CA, heading for the Donnar Pass into NV,..... TRUCKERS CHAIN UP when the huge roadside yellow sign is blinking !!

Your Turn !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Again..... weight and tire size matters. You can't compare a semi with large tires hauling cargo (weight) with a econobox commuter car. Perhaps you should have stuck around longer. Semis slipping backward while "chaining up" is not uncommon. Ask ANY trucker with experience driving in that environment.

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Are studded tires legal in OK? Just curious.

I honestly have no idea. I have never seen studded tires. Not here, not in Missouri, not in Colorado, not in Illinois. Honestly I did not even know those existed before you made your post.

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

The latest and greatest in arctic tire technology.

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Hey Bears.... you think this purpose built Snow Cruiser looks a bit like a push back tractor?

 

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Again..... weight and tire size matters. You can't compare a semi with large tires hauling cargo (weight) with a econobox commuter car. Perhaps you should have stuck around longer. Semis slipping backward while "chaining up" is not uncommon. Ask ANY trucker with experience driving in that environment.

Back in 2009 and 2010 during my commute to BWI then i witnessed an 18 wheeler slide or jacknifed right off side of I-83 MD and PA border on uphill section. Rought then with 2 back to back blizzards and then polar vortex n 3 more back to back snowstorm

 

[delldude]

He is facing criminal investigation in NY related to tax bank fraud. But honestly in my personal opin i seriously doubt he ever see jail. But he pretty much damaged his kids efforts at political stage. Not discounting it. He costed repubs the house the senate n the WH by his actions.

Today jeff flake told cnn kate baldwin pretty much why repubs lost n would continue if people like trump n his supporters continue the path

Pelosi lost about a dozen seats by Trumps actions......Biden's first 100 days will likely cost them both houses.

 

[delldude]

You didn't even look at the charts I posted, did you? There were PLENTY of gas and coal "backups". Indeed, the small number of wind turbines (especially in the area managed by the Texas grid). And just under half of those wind turbines were for areas in Texas that are NOT on the "Texas grid". Again...while Amarillo, who would be far more dependent on wind than Dallas, Houston or San Antonio, did experience rolling blackouts, they blamed reduced efficiency in gas transmission. How come they weren't blaming the windmills?

And solar is less than 1% of Texas power source so I'm not sure why you are bring it up. And in the major cities in Texas, the fossil fuel plants seem to be the primary...are you suggesting a secondary fossil fuel plant to back up the other fossil fuel plants?

Elon Musk Rescues Texans With Giant Flamethrower Mech

AUSTIN, TX—Texans have been frozen in their homes without power for days, and no end was in sight -- until Elon Musk emerged from his new Texas home in a cobbled-together mech that shoots giant flames out of its arms.

Residents of Texas were huddled together for warmth, about ready to give up, when they beheld in the distance an orange glow. One girl shivering in her house looked down at her glass of water and saw a ripple start to form as she heard a thud-thud-thud growing louder and louder. Looking out the window, she cried a cry of hope: "Look, mommy! A fire robot!"

Sure enough, there he was, clad in mech armor and blasting snow all around him.

"BEHOLD! THE GIFT OF FIRE!" cackled Musk as he began to melt snow all over the state. "I threw this together with some spare parts in my garage! It needs a few tweaks, but I think it's an OK working prototype to start with. FIRE!!!!!!"

One truck was sliding by on an adjacent road, but Musk jumped to the rescue, grabbing the truck by the bumper and flinging it toward its destination. "YOU'RE WELCOME, FRIENDLY CITIZEN!" he cried as he turned to torch a compact car out of a snowbank.

At publishing time, Musk had installed an arc reactor in his chest to power the suit more efficiently.

 

[KCFlyer]

Elon Musk Rescues Texans With Giant Flamethrower Mech

AUSTIN, TX—Texans have been frozen in their homes without power for days, and no end was in sight -- until Elon Musk emerged from his new Texas home in a cobbled-together mech that shoots giant flames out of its arms.

Residents of Texas were huddled together for warmth, about ready to give up, when they beheld in the distance an orange glow. One girl shivering in her house looked down at her glass of water and saw a ripple start to form as she heard a thud-thud-thud growing louder and louder. Looking out the window, she cried a cry of hope: "Look, mommy! A fire robot!"

Sure enough, there he was, clad in mech armor and blasting snow all around him.

"BEHOLD! THE GIFT OF FIRE!" cackled Musk as he began to melt snow all over the state. "I threw this together with some spare parts in my garage! It needs a few tweaks, but I think it's an OK working prototype to start with. FIRE!!!!!!"

One truck was sliding by on an adjacent road, but Musk jumped to the rescue, grabbing the truck by the bumper and flinging it toward its destination. "YOU'RE WELCOME, FRIENDLY CITIZEN!" he cried as he turned to torch a compact car out of a snowbank.

At publishing time, Musk had installed an arc reactor in his chest to power the suit more efficiently.

Meanwhile, that Socialist Biden sent generators, blankets and other supplies to help Texans and did NOT demand they kiss his ass to get the help.

 

[delldude]

Meanwhile, that Socialist Biden sent generators, blankets and other supplies to help Texans and did NOT demand they kiss his ass to get the help.

Gov. Greg Abbott thanked President Joe Biden for declaring a federal emergency in Texas.

Is what Fema is for.....duh

 

[KCFlyer]

Gov. Greg Abbott thanked President Joe Biden for declaring a federal emergency in Texas.

Is what Fema is for.....duh

IT's socialist. No matter how you cut it. Texas voters didn't want Biden because they didn't want socialism.. But... I do like your last sentence....it kind of reminds me of this:

 

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Why did Texas lose power? Math — apolitical, non-ideological, and sometimes cruel math.

During such an extreme cold for which Texas is mostly unprepared, the demands on the electric grid exceeded its output capacity. The majority of Texans heat their home with electricity, and, under typical circumstances, it makes sense. Why spend money to bring natural gas heat into the home when it’s very likely you can go an entire winter without turning it on? As temperatures plummeted, Texans turned on and turned up the heat.


But something else was happening. The extreme cold was impacting all electricity production. All of it: coal, natural gas, nuclear, but most of all wind.

The Department of Energy tracks electricity generation hourly. On Sunday, Feb. 14 at 8 p.m., this was Texas’s electricity makeup in kilowatt-hours:

• • Natural Gas: 43,798
  • Coal: 10,828
  • Wind: 8,087
  • Nuclear: 5,140

The next day, during the height of the storm at 8 p.m., this was the makeup:

• • Natural Gas: 30,917
  • Coal: 8,023
  • Wind: 649
  • Nuclear: 3,785

Why the delta? Natural gas, for starters, experienced a shortage. Those Texans who do have natural gas heating their homes turned it up, and what would have been available for electricity generation, went to homes. Similarly, nuclear and coal were adversely impacted by the cold. These are failures, plain and simple, and they can be explained away as anomalies in an unlikely, black swan scenario.


But what of wind power? Wind turbines froze and were rendered useless. Here is the real reason for the failure and I’ll prove it with an apples-to-apples comparison.

One decade ago, almost to the day, Feb. 2, 2011, extreme put a strain on the electric grid. The electric grid was unable to meet demand, and many experienced rolling blackouts for “https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/1...lures-contributed-to-texas-deadly-power-loss/up to an hour.” Yes, fossil fuel plants also struggled in the cold, but this isn’t about spin or protecting industry or pushing an agenda, it’s about facts.

Fast forward one decade and two weeks, and Texas again faced with extreme cold and a straining electric grid, but it’s not the same electricity mix. Texas for the past ten years had made concerted efforts to go green.

In 2011 about 6 percent of the electricity mix was generated from wind power. Today it’s 25 percent. Simultaneously, Texas has increased its overall electricity consumption by 20 percent as the state is attracting people from everywhere and the population is booming. Furthermore, three coal plants were taken offline. Indeed, the same type of storm of 2011 did not play out in the same circumstances in 2021. Did fossil fuels struggle? Absolutely, but their percentage of the grid dropped significantly.


The difference is wind. So serious is this percentage of the electric grid coming from unreliable wind power that more than two years ago, the Chair of Texas Public Utility Commission called lack of dependable electricity reserves “very scary.” Yet, Texans still saw three coal plants removed completely from the equation, even as a back-up, a safety net.

The question is: Why?

In 2005, then-Governor Rick Perry — who most would agree is a “champion” of the fossil fuel industry — signed into law a mandate requiring Texas to increase its wind power electricity. Why? Rick Perry is not an electrical engineer, and I’m not saying he is to blame for what happened. But even fossil fuel advocate Rick Perry, may have the teensiest notion in his head that fossil fuels are “bad,” insufficient, and therefore, we “need” wind.

In 2017, the Sierra Club celebrated the closing of the Monticello Coal plant in Titus County, Texas. Their campaign “Beyond Coal” is funded with over $500 million from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and they pride themselves on taking more than 60 percent of the coal plants offline in America.


I am sure in Bloomberg’s circles this is considered noble, and I started my group Power The Future to advocate for the thousands of people in rural America who have lost their jobs as a result of his green activism.

But there’s another component to taking coal offline: the 1,800 megawatts of electricity it generated could have genuinely helped stabilize the electric grid. Maybe instead of more than 20 deaths from the cold, the number would be less. Sadly, we’ll never know.

There’s a lot of blame going around, and frankly, most of it is quite stupid. “Republicans Blame” is the Washington Post headline. An NBC News column claims that wind and solar are “fairly small slices of the state’s energy mix” as if 25 percent were trace figures. And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., neither an engineer nor a Texan, tweeted that Texas Governor Abbot needed to “read a book” about his state’s energy supply — whatever that’s supposed to mean. It’s all so very, very stupid.

Energy isn’t sexy. It’s math, physics, and numbers. But it’s also life. We’re told to stop the “existential threat” of climate change we must “go green,” and switch to green energy. I do this for a living and I’ve never seen one confirmed death from “climate change,” but today I can show you several Texan deaths clearly attributable to the cold, and no NBC news spin or AOC twitter stupidity will comfort their families. They are dead from a combination of factors: billionaires don’t like coal, politicians invent mandates, and utility commissioners rest on their reports as well as a severe winter storm.

Fossil fuels aren’t perfect, but renewables aren’t either. They have severe shortcomings, and the results can sometimes be deadly. We can learn from what happened in Texas if we have a serious and necessary conversation about renewable energy. But will we?

China is building more coal plants right now than all of Europe has combined and the reason is simple: it works. China is serious about its energy. I wish we were, too.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/1...lures-contributed-to-texas-deadly-power-loss/

 

[delldude]

IT's socialist. No matter how you cut it. Texas voters didn't want Biden because they didn't want socialism.. But... I do like your last sentence....it kind of reminds me of this:

Tax dollars for emergency national situations isn't socialism, it's preparedness.

 

[KCFlyer]

Tax dollars for emergency national situations isn't socialism, it's preparedness.

Tax dollars for emergencies like a nautural disaster is preparedness. Pulling yourself off the national grid because you don't want those nasty federal regulations (other states seem to be faring much better) and then finding that YOUR decisions created a problem that isn't a problem in 49 other states, then accepting help from the rest is socialism.

Instead they blame the wind generators and mock "the green new deal"...citing Texas as the fate that awaits the rest of us if those tree hugging socialists have their way. But last I checked - Alaska pretty much has it's own power grid (just like Texas) and temps are usually below freezing for the better part of a year. Here's a little story about it.

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

Again..... weight and tire size matters. You can't compare a semi with large tires hauling cargo (weight) with a econobox commuter car. Perhaps you should have stuck around longer. Semis slipping backward while "chaining up" is not uncommon. Ask ANY trucker with experience driving in that environment.

FACE IT !

You OKIES would NEVER Survive/Make-It in a Tough NORTHER NEW ENGLAND Winter !!!!!!!!!!1

 

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Pelosi lost about a dozen seats by Trumps actions......Biden's first 100 days will likely cost them both houses.

As long as repubs continue to support a sore loser trump is and being sharply divided as that party is itll be much harder for them to capture the houses. Nancy is retiring in 2 years. So we shall see what occurs