Despite years of increasing reliance on intermittent generation sources like wind and solar, Texas policymakers seem to have been caught by surprise by the blackouts experienced by millions of Texans this winter. They should not have been. While temperatures dropped into the single digits for extended periods over much of Texas, solar and wind generators…
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The Liberty Café 39: Top 10 Reasons for Christians & Conservatives to Oppose the Texas Budget
Next week the Texas Legislature will pass a budget that will ultimately account for at least $265 billion in spending–and perhaps as much as $280 billion; up from $209 billion only six years ago. This week on the Liberty Café we go over the Top Ten reasons conservatives and Christians should oppose this continued profligate…
The Liberty Café 38: Corporate Cronyism Run Amuck
Texas school districts use Chapter 313 of the Texas Tax Code to give large property tax breaks to businesses–especially renewable energy generators–that the rest of us don’t get. On Episode 38 of the Liberty Café, we take a look to see if the Texas Legislature is doing anything to rein in corporate cronyism through Chapter…
The PCA Has Fallen into Error, and Can’t Get Back Up: Part 3-David Frenchism
One of the most fascinating phenomena of our time is the number of evangelical Christians brought up in the wake of dispensationalism coming to grips with the problems of the church abandoning the culture. Now, I understand that dispensationalism, and its reformed cousin–Two Kingdoms (R2K) theology, don’t use the term, “abandon the culture.” And both…
Renewables Taking Over the Texas Grid
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the entity that operates the Texas electric grid, last week projected record-high demand this summer because of hot, dry weather and Texas’ continued economic growth. ERCOT projects that demand could reach as high as 77,144 megawatts (MW) this summer. But says with a projected 86,862 MW of generation…
Conservatives and Christians Should Oppose the Texas Budget Because it is Built on Lies
If the Texas Legislature uses all funds available to it this session, it will appropriate at least $279 billion of taxpayer money during the upcoming biennium. That will be an increase of at least $31.5 billion, or 12.7%, from what it appropriated in 2019. Since the 2014-15 budget, the budget in place when much of…
Energy Transfer Made $2.4 Billion From Texas Winter Storm
By Gerson Freitas Jr (Bloomberg) Energy Transfer LP, the pipeline giant controlled by billionaire Kelcy Warren, has emerged as the biggest winner so far from the deadly winter storm that paralyzed Texas in February. The company saw a positive earnings impact from the extreme weather of about $2.4 billion, it said Thursday in its first-quarter…
The Liberty Café 37: Chip Roy on God, Government, & Liberty
The place of God in government and in our personal lives is of great debate in our increasingly secularized culture. On Episode 37 of the Liberty Café, U.S. Rep Chip Roy discusses his views on the Christian faith and how faithful adherence to God’s Word in our personal and political lives is the only path…
The Liberty Café 36: The Texas Budget
The Texas Legislature keeps spending more and more our money. And most of what they spend it on is not good for Texans–or liberty. This week on Episode 36 of the Liberty Café, we visit with Texas Scorecard’s Jeramy Kitchens to talk about what the last few weeks of session will mean for Texan’s pocketbooks….
A Capacity Market Will Make Texas Electricity More Expensive, Not More Reliable
See a printable version of the report at the Texas Energy Alliance Introduction In 1999, a bipartisan coalition of Texas legislators bucked the interests of Texas public utilities to introduce what became the world’s most competitive electricity market. Though not without its flaws, the legislation passed that session set the stage for an unprecedented experiment…