All right, question number two.
How would you prioritize Texas project paid for by federal
infrastructure grants?
Federal infrastructure grants.
Okay.
All right.
Well, oh yeah, so if we're going to talk about
infrastructure, there's a lot that we need to fix here
in Texas.
I mean, the top two things that comes to my
mind is our failing power grid for one.
I think that comes to everyone's mind.
I probably don't need to tell you much about that
because I'm sure that everyone's aware of that.
Another one that you might not be aware of as
much, particularly particularly around here, is our water grid, which
we're also having issues as well.
Let me talk about Lunchita Falls for a second, real
quick.
I know that's quite far from here, but it's part
of my district, and it's an area where they nearly
ran out of water.
They have massive water scarcity issues up there.
And so they're very concerned about the uh the water
grid.
The problem with water in Texas, it's not that we
necessarily always run out, we just don't always have at
the right places at the right time.
And we need to uh introduce uh more uh funding
into trying to upgrade our grid so we can transport
water uh across areas to where they need to go.
This will also help out our farmers.
We also need to increase, I believe, uh if if
we could take uh federal grant money and put it
into our infrastructure, I would invest that into uh uh
aquafirers and in water recycling centers because that will help
us out as well.
Um I'm not sure if many of you are familiar
with Lake Ringold.
It's a lake that does not exist yet, but it's
something that uh some legislatures have been pushing for.
Uh it will help out with our water situation.
However, you have to understand the more lakes we create,
most of the lakes here in Texas are man-made, by
the way.
Uh, but most of the lakes are very, very shallow,
and because they're shallow, the Texas uh sun comes in
and evaporates all that water.
So even though it's really cheap to create uh more
and more lakes here in Texas, it's actually not the
most efficient way for us.
And the more lakes that we create makes us run
into these like imminent domain issues where you have to
take people's land away in order to create more of
these lakes.
So I think if we could get you know these
grants, I would uh introduce that into water recycling centers
and aquifers and try to uh silt uh water out
from other areas where we can.
Very good.
All right, question number two.
How would you prioritize Texas projects paid for by federal
infrastructure grants?
Federal infrastructure grants, okay.
All right.
Well, oh, yeah, so if we're gonna talk about infrastructure,
there's a lot that we need to fix here in
Texas.
I mean, that's the top two things that comes to
my mind is our uh failing power grid for one.
I think that comes to everyone's mind.
I probably don't need to tell you much about that
because I'm sure that everyone's aware of that.
Another one that you might not be aware of as
much, particularly particularly around here, is our water grid, uh,
which we're also having issues as well.
Uh, let me talk about Lunchitaw Falls for a second,
real quick.
I know that's quite far from here, but it's part
of my district, and it's an area where they nearly
ran out of water.
They have massive water scarcity issues up there, and so
they're very concerned about the uh the water grid.
The problem with water in Texas, it's not that we
necessarily always run out, we just don't always have at
the right places at the right time, and we need
to uh introduce uh more uh funding into trying to
upgrade our grid so we can transport water uh across
areas to where they need to go.
This will also help out our farmers.
We also need to increase, I believe, uh if if
we could take uh federal grant money and put it
into our infrastructure, I would invest that into uh uh
aquafiers and water recycling centers because that will help us
out as well.
Um, I'm not sure if many of you are familiar
with Lake Ringold, it's a lake that does not exist
yet, but it's something that uh some legislatures have been
pushing for.
Uh, it will help out with our water situation.
However, you have to understand the more lakes we create.
Most most of the lakes here in Texas are mandated,
by the way.
Uh, but most of the lakes are very, very shallow.
shallow. And because they're, the Texas uh sun comes in
and evaporates all that water
So even though it's really cheap to keep to create
more and more lakes here in Texas, it's actually not
the most efficient way for us.
And the more lakes that we create makes us run
into these like imminent domain issues where you have to
take people's land away in order to create more of
these lakes.
So I think if we could get you know these
grants out, uh introduce that into water recycling centers and
aquifers and try to uh silt uh water out from
other areas where we can.
Very good.