ryan cooper: "The Texas grid could certainly be made more robust. But building backup natural gas plants that should ultimately sit idle 90 percent of the time is probably the most expensive way to address the problem" www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/o...

"The Texas grid could certainly be made more robust. But building backup natural gas plants that should ultimately sit idle 90 percent of the time is probably the most expensive way to address the problem" www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/o...

Opinion | Oil and Gas Companies Are Trying to Rig the Marketplacewww.nytimes.com Fossil fuel interests are spreading misinformation that renewable energy is harmful, unreliable and worse for consumers.

Expensive for us, sure. But lucrative for the handful of sociopaths who run this place as a personal fiefdom.

here in Colorado, our electric utility is profit-incentivised to build capital infrastructure. natural gas is appealing for short-term profit which will then need to be retired in coming decades. and probably at ratepayer expense.

Strange, it's not like energy companies to scam customers.

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