Opinion: Texas shows that when you cannot govern, you lie. A lot.
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The grid leaves us powerless - "Would this be happening if Texas, a secessionist state craving freedom from federal oversight, had not insisted on its own grid? When the government began regulating interstate utilities in 1935, Texas kept its power to itself. Now most of the United States is powered by two mega-grids, the Eastern and Western interconnections, while Texas cultivates its own island of electricity.
"'Texas is the way it is, infrastructurally, because of these cultural biases: stereotypically American values like freedom and independence and the ability to make a quick buck,' says Bakke, by phone. 'And so the whole reason this is happening now is because there’s a certain culture that has existed in Texas for the last 100 years.'"
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