Folks, I know that the electricity market is complicated.
This is Jared Patterson.
He's a state house representative representing Eastern Denton County in
Frisco.
It's very complex.
It's one of the the biggest and most successful electricity
markets in the entire United States.
Successful, huh?
Sure, you want to use that word.
State officials have added another 59 deaths to the total
of those killed during the February freeze and power outages.
The new death tally by the Department of State Health
Services Tuesday.
Raised the number of deaths from 151 to 210.
More than four million Texans lost power.
Many wouldn't get it back for nearly five days.
Even though the storm hit this huge area, it was
really just Texas that had major loss of power.
A lot of the time.
Yeah, this is a big deal happening in California being
such a regulated state.
And Donald Trump could fix this situation in a snap.
I mean, you basically do what he did.
You deregulate the economy.
But this isn't a Republican or Democrat issue.
Texas is the only southern state that's deregulated.
So most of Texas is on its own grid.
When Senate Bill 7 was passed in 1999 and the
market was deregulated, it separated wall of separation between church
and state, between the wires companies and the generators and
the retailers.
And the market bloomed, and we had a very successful
market for a long time until this proliferation of wind
power destroyed our market.
Some wind turbines stopped working in the freezing cold.
But the biggest failure in terms of its magnitude and
its impact was the natural gas system.
Natural gas, which actually contains water vapor, frozen storage wells
and pipelines.
Every one of these systems failed.
Wind isn't the reason the blackouts occurred.
Texas's power grid failure was an indictment of his political
ideologies.
The reason there were outages like the ones that happened
traced back to a degree deregulation agenda where the Texas
power grid is disconnected from two major countrywide ones in
order to avoid any federal oversight.
Which Peterson won't do because he's on the energy company's
payroll and even admits it on his own LinkedIn profile.