While liberals bitch about useless nothings like carbon taxes, Texas is the nations largest producer of green energy.
DNC shills left seething as their regressive policies continue to destroy the country.
https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-green-power-energy-america-economy-wind-oil-solar-prices-2023-11 America's greenest state is deep deep red
Highway 83, running between North Dakota and Texas, cuts America in half. The road runs mostly through isolated parts of the country, which has earned it the nickname the "Road to Nowhere."
John Davis, a rancher in Menard, Texas, is trying to make his little slice of US-83 a "somewhere" for road trippers. Menard Station opened in September and is gaining a fan base.
On Saturdays, Davis' family heads down to the Station to serve customers Wagyu steak burgers from their ranch outside of town, where seven white wind turbines tower over the cattle, sheep, and goats that graze in the grassland. The giant turbines are also the reason that Davis was able to open up the Station: In 2018, he signed a deal with RES Americas, which was developing 43 wind turbines in central Texas. The Davis' 1,300 acres of windy prairie were an attractive site for some of the turbines, which now crank out 24 megawatts of power.
"Everybody else struck oil. I struck wind," Davis told me.
Deals like Davis' have made Texas — America's oil capital for more than a century — the top producer of renewable energy in the US. The state has long generated the most wind power and is second only to California as a solar-energy producer. While fossil fuel still reigns supreme in the state's energy mix, wind and solar account for a growing share of the total. As of October, wind and solar met between 25% and 41% of Texas' energy demand, depending on the month, according to data from the state's grid operator ERCOT. Add in nuclear power, which doesn't produce greenhouse-gas emissions, and green energy met upward of 50% of the state's demand in some months.
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the boom has also triggered a Texas-size showdown: Gov. Greg Abbott and a group of his fellow Republicans in the state legislature launched a campaign to prop up fossil fuels and penalize renewables, arguing it would make the grid more reliable. Critics aren't convinced that subsidizing fossil fuels will solve the state's electricity crunch. The high-stakes battle for Texas' energy future is a microcosm of how tricky America's green transition is shaping up to be, especially when politics are involved. Slowing down renewable energy could cost Texas in the long term, both economically and socially. Billions of dollars of public and private investment are pouring into low-carbon industries. Meanwhile, the US is already losing billions to deadly climate-fueled disasters that scientists warn will get worse unless the world rapidly shifts away from fossil fuels. Yet there's still money and political points to be earned in oil and gas, indicating the fight is far from over. From black gold to green energy Given the current battles, it's a bit ironic that Texas' ability to become America's green-energy leader was the result of two Republican governors and the state's conservative, pro-business bent. The runway was laid more than two decades ago when then Gov. Bush pushed through a plan to deregulate the state's energy market. Instead of letting utilities control all the generation and transmission of power, the law created a competitive market that allows customers to choose their power provider. The goal was to lower the cost of turning on the lights for households and businesses. The plan also included a target for Texas to produce 2,000 megawatts of power from renewable-energy sources by 2009. The plan was so successful that in 2005, Republican Gov. Rick Perry raised the target to 10,000 megawatts by 2025 — a threshold Texas quickly surpassed.
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An energy market that prioritized the cheapest supply, combined with a quick process to approve and build new transmission lines, proved to be a winning formula in a state with vast swaths of open land, wind, and sunshine. Last year, the state generated about 30% of its power from wind and solar. Some Texans are profiting directly from this shift. While Davis said he signed a nondisclosure agreement with RES that prevents him from sharing how much he earned from his deal, the trade group Advanced Power Alliance said renewable-energy developers pay more than $70 million every year to Texas landowners who lease their property. Another $237 million is paid by these developers in state and local taxes, creating new revenue for rural areas like Menard, where Davis' ranch is, to use for education, infrastructure, and emergency services. This adds up to billions of dollars over the life span of these projects. Texans who don't have land to lease have benefited, as well. Since electricity from solar and wind farms is cheaper than coal and gas plants, renewable energy reduced wholesale electricity costs by $31.5 billion between 2010 and 2022, according to a study led by a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin. Divide that up, and residents have saved a couple thousand dollars on their utility bills during that period. And that doesn't include the tens of billions in healthcare costs that have been avoided thanks to a reduction in air pollution. A flurry of headlines this summer also noted that solar and wind power helped stabilize the Texas power grid as temperatures soared to the triple-digits for weeks on end and people jacked up their ACs. Battery storage and natural-gas plants were key when the sun wasn't shining and wind wasn't blowing, energy analysts said. Plus, the sector is bringing in jobs: As of last year, the renewable-energy sector employed 239,000 people in Texas, a 7% increase from 2021, according to an analysis by E2, an environmental group
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Conservatives taking credit for things they didn't do again, huh
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Yea nice title to your shitpost but that is not what this article says.
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>>1238407 >While liberals bitch about useless nothings like carbon taxes, Texas is the nations largest producer of green energy. >DNC shills left seething as their regressive policies continue to destroy the country. Nice blog faggot
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>itt: libshits losing it over the fact that Texas is the nations largest green energy producer
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>>1238414 >Yea nice title to your shitpost but that is not what this article says. Deals like Davis' have made Texas — America's oil capital for more than a century — the top producer of renewable energy in the US
Seethe and cope, retard
It says exactly that
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>>1238436 >>1238437 >my headcanon is real! no it isn't
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>>1238431 >>1238436 Every other Texas Energy thread: Green energy is unreliable and ruining the grid
This thread: TX Green most gooder!!!
Do Conservatives even have convictions?
They're just reflexive contrarians
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>>1238436 Let's just hope all that green energy means ERCOT can keep the lights on this winter
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>>1238410 Lol yeah also remember when these absolute fucking retards blamed green energy when they had that blackout from the blizzard?
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>>1238458 How do you even get by?
A state that doesn't even care about green energy produces the most in the nation while democrat states keep crying about it and so they reduce their own states fossil energy production, and buy the deficit as coal-fired electricity from the next state over and then pay themselves on the back for a job well down
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>>1238455 Hey shizo retard.
Still haven't managed to drown yourself in your own drool I see
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>>1238472 If we ignore facts and move that goal post alllllllllll the way up, then Texas wins!!!! In your face liberals!!!!!!
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Texas has doing more to slow global warming by being America's largest green energy producer, than has every cent collected from every progressive carbon tax
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>>1238488 The less a man makes declarative statements the less apt he is to look foolish in retrospect.
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>>1238488 Texas has done more to cause global warming by making Democrats seethe bright red with rage.
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>>1238502 And this is conservatives entire platform. They have no policy and no ability to lead or govern, but they can own the libs, so you win I guess?
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>>1238516 Why yes. If you own the libs you win.
Comparing Texas and California shows that.
>Uh, but the power went out in Texas once. The general state of Texas is way better than that of California in literally all metrics.
Owning the libs works.
And it works because the libs are idiots whose policy is damaging and they enjoy governing with an iron fist.
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>>1238522 owning the libs is in your head anon, everyone is laughing at you
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>>1238522 >the libs are idiots whose policy is damaging and they enjoy governing with an iron fist. Also truth
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>>1238523 >everyone is laughing at you Why do you do this? This isn't an argument, and it's not clever.
Concession accepted.
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>>1238523 Nta but you got owned and I'm laughing at you
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>>1238522 >pwning the libs I aint gonna listen to my mom, I can do what I want,
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How is it that Texas does more for green energy without even trying using an open market strategy than any democrat state with all of their green energy taxes?
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>>1238573 GDP is a metric only useful to billionaire investors. A banker slapping a button to transfer imaginary money between accounts creates GDP.
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>>1238573 I knew some dumb ass, probably unironic communist faggot was going to mention "Muh GDP".
Californians can't buy houses with GDP.
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>>1238618 The homeless are celebrating GDP, chud.
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>>1238620 >The homeless are celebrating GDP Low quality bait. It's a transparently try-hard retard post.
Nobody is this dumb
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>>1238625 It's called sarcasm you humorless dunce
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>>1238580 >>1238597 >>1238618 >>1238620 The point of this post was to show the willful ignorance of the post above it that claimed “Texas is better then California in all measurable metrics” this post showed in 5 seconds this false information was debunked…
And your response is more willful ignorance. Keep being stupid, conservatives. I’m sure that will work out for you.
I also don’t give a shit about the GDP of any state, I just like fact checking idiots and exposing their false narratives. I know conservatives hate facts.
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>>1238650 >Imagine getting this bent out of shape over an obvious shitpost You must be going thru fentanyl withdrawals or something, I know you democrats love your fentanyl
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>>1238650 >Texas is better then California in all measurable metrics” this post showed in 5 seconds this false information was debunked… Then why do all the Californians moving to Texas want to live in Texas and not California?
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>>1238650 insert whataboutism here
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>>1238666 Because we want to turn Texas blue.
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>>1238666 Probably tired of the rampant population of drug addicted homeless