Rick Perry: Texans would rather be without power for days than have more federal oversight
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Former Texas governor shared his thoughts on widespread, statewide outages
Fares Sabawi, Digital Journalist
Published: February 17, 2021, 10:13 am Tags: Rick Perry, Texas, PoliticsFormer Texas Gov. Rick Perry (Michael Humphrey/CNN)
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry said that millions of Texans, who have been out of power for days amid this winter storm, find the outages preferable to federal government intervening in the state's energy crisis.
Perry was interviewed and featured in Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's blog post about the freezing temperatures that have decimated the state's ability to provide power to its residents. As of Wednesday, more than 2.7 million Texans remain out of power with more freezing temperatures ahead in the coming days, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
Although every form of power was knocked offline by the weather, Perry took aim at renewable sources of energy, some of which are subsidized by the federal government.
"If wind and solar is where we're headed, the last 48 hours ought to give everybody a real pause and go wait a minute," Perry said. "We need to have a baseload. And the only way you can get a baseload in this country is [with] natural gas, coal, and nuclear."
Perry, a former Secretary of Energy for the Trump administration, said that the Department of Energy could help Texas better analyze its risks and recommend investments in weatherization, transmission, and energy storage. But, federal subsidies in renewable energy or making the Texas grid part of a larger nationwide grid, is not the answer, he said.
"Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business," Perry said "partly rhetorically," according to the blog. "Try not to let whatever the crisis of the day is take your eye off of having a resilient grid that keeps America safe personally, economically, and strategically."
That part seems to have escaped the people who hoisted this thing.
They are quoting a blog? Really?
You quoted the parts of a town hall transcript you partially took out of context.
Really?
Well, hell yea, what's good for the goose is good for everyone else.
Yeah, Kevin McCarthy's blog. Are you implying Kevin doesn't know what he talking about?
If so, I agree. LoL.
Icky Ricky Perry..... The gift that keeps on giving!
...my thoughts as well when I saw the article.
Glad to see you back Larry.... You were missed.
I think the Icky Ricky's should both run in 2024.... (Santorum being the other of the pair)......for the comedy they bring of course.
Thanks FlyNavy, good to see you as well
:~)
I wouldn't miss a Perry/Santorum comedy hour special.
Perry has to be one of the dumbest politicians I've ever seen. He's like a cement block.
Removed for context
They don't call him Rick -Dumb As A Rock- Perry for nothin.
I wonder if he can name the three federal agencies he wanted to abolish yet.
How do you rate him against Louie Gohmert....?
I swear, some of these people just cannot stay out of the limelight.
How dare we go green! I mean it may get cold...
Stupidity abounds...
He is talking about how renewable energy would fail while his old fossil fuel system has failed...
Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb...
Unfortunately, Rick is from the same dumb club that Texans get most of their politicians from.
Like Cruz, Abbott & Paxton, he doesn't have a clue.
6th day in a row, sub zero temps in Dallas Fort Worth, while Anchorage Alaska enjoys 25 degree days...
Meanwhile Tucker keeps repeating the lies...
Tucker Carlson Doubles Down on False Texas Windmill Claims (Video) (thewrap.com)
And thus Tucker continues with the Right Wing efforts to keep the Right Wing ignorant.....
Stupid is as stupid says.
I suspect Texans are more concerned about why the damned thing ain't working. They pay their taxes and pay their bills and still must suffer the consequences. The people in charge make all the decisions, average Texans only pay for everything. And the people in charge never seem to be held accountable for the decisions they make.
It's the people in charge pointing fingers at each other to avoid being held accountable. People on the street only get the consequences of decisions made by those in charge. Some fat assed politician or scientist or expert or activist decided what needed to be done, the people on the street didn't have a say. So, why the hell ain't it working?
That is really what it is. "Why doesn't my shit work, what in the hell are you all doing about it?"
When it comes to water, power, gas, or frankly the internet, I don't give a damn if it is run by the federal government, I just want it to work especially when the unexpected happens. Now granted, certain things like tornados hurricanes, earthquakes and the like are unpredictable and pack a ton of force into a very small timeframe, but the weather getting cold occasionally? we can't prep for that? Thing is I know we can because I live in an area where it regularly drops well below freezing and get no outages.
If my idiot city can figure it out, seems like everyone should be able to.
I wonder how many Texans without power he actually asked.