Texas power grid RIDICULED as Tesla warns state of 'green' energy blackouts



Tesla is now asking its customers in Texas to avoid charging their electric cars during peak hours to avoid stressing the power grid to the point of rolling blackouts. The warning comes as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas is calling on residents to conserve electricity during the recent heatwave.

Meanwhile, the Biden administration continues its march toward so-called "clean energy" by forcing the nation off coal and other fossil fuels before we have a viable replacement. Instead of switching to reliable nuclear and hydroelectric power, our delusional leaders are betting on wind power, but the wind doesn't provide power when it doesn’t blow. Wind accounts for about 30% of Texas’ power supply, according to the Wall Street Journal.

After some Tesla customers in Texas reported the in-car alerts, the Twitter crowd reacted with their predictable penchant for mockery and ridicule.

\u201c"... Tesla owners in Texas are receiving in-car alerts that tell them to avoid charging their cars because the Texas power grid is on the verge of failure due to a lack of energy from wind turbines that aren't turning because the wind isn't blowing."\u201d
— AllieMarie-PureBloodMegaMAGA\ud83d\udeab\ud83d\udc89\ud83d\ude3c\ud83e\udd8b\ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2640\ufe0f (@AllieMarie-PureBloodMegaMAGA\ud83d\udeab\ud83d\udc89\ud83d\ude3c\ud83e\udd8b\ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2640\ufe0f) 1658178884
\u201c@ZacksJerryRig @saradietschy @verge It doesn't work in the heat. It doesn't work in the cold. Maybe they should come to Canada to see how we do it. Our grid in Ontario isn't perfect, but I'm the last 6 months the temperature has gone from -40\u00b0F to almost 100\u00b0F where I am, and the most I've had was a flicker \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\u201d
— The Verge (@The Verge) 1657740284
\u201c@business Texans getting the gov't they deserve! lol\u201d
— Bloomberg (@Bloomberg) 1658186706
\u201c@townhallcom Can't stop laughing.\u201d
— Townhall.com (@Townhall.com) 1657903505
\u201c@saradietschy @verge Yep, the wind turbines can't keep up, BUT please buy electric cars & you won't be able to go anywhere because of power grid not being able to keep up!!!! Sounds like a plan to keep us under control...\u201d
— The Verge (@The Verge) 1657740284
\u201c@stockhunterOTC @townhallcom We could hook up some of these congress members so set on green to the turbines like a bunch of gerbils\u201d
— Townhall.com (@Townhall.com) 1657903505
\u201c@townhallcom What\u2019s different in Texas? Could it be a fragile power grid? And who\u2019s responsible for that?\nQuestions that should be easy to answer \u2026.,\u201d
— Townhall.com (@Townhall.com) 1657903505
\u201c@townhallcom Texas got suckered into all this wind and solar power only to realize how unreliable they are\u201d
— Townhall.com (@Townhall.com) 1657903505
\u201cHey Texas Tesla (EV) owners\u2026.. unplug your damn cars\u2026.. the power grid is overloaded.\u201d
— done (@done) 1658076324
\u201c@elonmusk So don't charge Tesla cars in Texas the energy state because the grid can't handle it. Might have to rethink this electric car idea if it is contributing to rolling power outages.....Texas was energy independent until wind farms were built and electric cars moved in....\u201d
— Elon Musk (@Elon Musk) 1658214038

"I just want to remind people that rolling blackouts — that is something in the past. That is also something that you see in emerging countries or third world countries, not in America. And certainly, not in Texas," Glenn Beck said on the radio program.

"We're not California. We have all of the resources that we need to be able to have the power that we need. It's the only one that is not on an industrialized grid. Texas is on its own electrical grid. We don't sell energy to anybody else. We don't ask for energy from anybody else. We're on our own grid, and it's never been a problem. In fact, it's been something that we've heralded for a long time. That's why our energy is so dependable. But now we're going back. And the reason why we're going back is they put so much money into wind power. And they're turning other plants down. And that wind power is not dependable. Why, as Americans, are we allowing this?"

"It doesn't make any sense ... and we also have the largest nuclear power plant in the country here in south Texas," Pat Gray added. "If we could build more nuclear plants, you could power this country forever ... It just goes to show that that's not really the goal. Sustainable energy is not really the goal for [the Biden administration.] Their goal is to bring everybody down to ... a third-world nation. Then we have equality."

Watch the video clip below to catch more of the conversation. Can't watch? Download the podcast here.


Want more from Glenn Beck?

To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The Kavanaugh fight is a fight over false idols

To quote the prophet Allen Iverson: “I’m tired.”

Tired that the decision of who to name to the U.S. Supreme Court has been turned into a perpetual 11th hour of American politics.

It was never meant to be this way. One of Justice John Marshall’s most enduring legacies was his ardent search for unanimity when the court rendered a decision. Even though he was most certainly a political animal, this was not fundamentally a political game of gotcha to him. It was a genuine search for consensus that could be transmitted through bedrock Constitutional principles. It was a quest for careful and fair adherence to the rule of law that would bring the closest thing to justice we mere mortals could hope for.

And with that understanding in mind, the appointment of a new judge should in fact produce little more than a yawn from the public, if indeed we were a republic where the people rule, rather than of the banana variety. For what on earth should be raucous or sexy about men and women who are trained in painstaking depth how to soberly read laws without prejudice and settle disputes accordingly? Sounds kind of like reading the phone book for entertainment.

But not only do we not agree on what the law means in most specific circumstances these days, we also don’t have much respect remaining for the general notion of the rule of law, either. Chaos in the pursuit of raw power is now our jam. Which means that instead of quickly passing the black robe on to the next ready and able nerd-in-waiting, who is no more a threat to constitutional revolt than Mr. Rogers was a threat to suddenly hurl F-bombs in front of children on public television, we have turned Supreme Court justices into de facto demigods.

They are our saviors. On the Left, that means the judges are the architects of their progressive intelligent design. The judges create the world that the Left denies the Creator originally did.

Keep reading...Show less

Levin and Bolton cheer US reversal of Obama's decision to join extremist UN Human Rights Council

Tuesday evening on his nationally syndicated radio show, CRTV’s Mark Levin interviewed national security adviser John Bolton about the Trump administration’s decision to leave the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Bolton explained that the UNHRC has been manipulated and “used by human rights abusers against the United States” and Israel.

The national security adviser went on to explain how the Trump administration decision effectively reverses the posture of the Obama administration, which re-entered the UNHRC following a U.S. departure under the Bush administration.

 

Keep reading...Show less

U.S. departure from UN Human Rights Council is reportedly ‘imminent’

The Trump administration may decide to depart from the highly corrupt United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), U.S. sources told Reuters.

“Diplomatic sources said it was not a question of if but of when the United States retreats from the Human Rights Council,” the Reuters report said, adding that a U.S. official said that withdrawal appeared to be “imminent.”

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to observers of the activities at the United Nations. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has threatened to leave the UNHRC on numerous occasions, often citing its “obsession” with the State of Israel, along with its institutional coziness with dictatorial regimes.

What is supposed to be a body that calls attention to human rights has instead been warped into a U.N. agency that provides cover for the atrocities committed by corrupt member states. Look no further than the UNHRC’s membership roster to understand why this body could never take a legitimate interest in defending human rights. Its current membership roster includes authoritarian states and Islamic supremacist regimes such as China, Cuba, Pakistan, Qatar, and Venezuela, among many others.

And it seems the only thing that these totalitarian UNHRC members can agree on is how much they hate Israel.

From 2012 to 2016, the UNHRC adopted 123 condemnatory resolutions against specific countries: 103 of those 123 resolutions singled out Israel.

The United States was the highest contributor to the UNHRC in 2017, sending the U.N. body over $20 million last year.

Keep reading...Show less