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February 16, 2021, 9:10 am
Texas is being hit with a freezing wave of weather that the state is completely unprepared for, it being so rare. Some areas are seeing snow for the first time in decades.
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On Monday night, the state’s electrical grid failed, leaving more than 4 million people without electricity or heat, according to NBC News. It’s a very dangerous situation for the unhoused and for people in homes built with minimal insulation.
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Though Senator Ted Cruz seems to be immune to accusations of hypocrisy, it wasn’t hard for people to dig up some not-very-old tweets Cruz posted about power outages in California last summer.
In August of 2020, Cruz quote-tweeted an announcement from the Office of the Government of California about people making an effort to conserve energy in the state.
“California is now unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity,” Cruz wrote. “Biden/Harris/AOC want to make CA’s failed energy policy the standard nationwide. Hope you don’t like air conditioning!”
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Parts of California were experiencing blackouts due to high heat and wildfires. But it had nothing to do with the Green New Deal or clean energy efforts, it was basically poor planning for extreme weather, much like what Texas is now experiencing.
Ted Cruz doesn’t really care about that as much as he cares about keeping oil production up in Texas and squashing clean energy conversion efforts.
People were quick to pounce on his previous statements now that texas is going through similar troubles:
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Cruz isn’t the only Republican who has gloated about blue states having power issues in the past, as climate reporter Brian Kahn pointed out:
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Maybe the lesson here is that it’s never a good idea to gloat about people suffering, especially when it is usually the poorest and most vulnerable who end up suffering. I seriously doubt a Texan senator was the coldest person in the state last night.
*First Published: February 16, 2021, 9:10 am
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