Frey for Texas#Republican Rep. Jared Patterson is literally telling you to ignore the experts when it comes to #naturalgas and that #windpower is useless. Let's #factcheck that! #txlege @dentondemocrats @mckinneydemocrats
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Alright, so my State House representative is literally telling you to ignore the experts and is trying to tell you that it's a fact that natural gas is the savior to all things. Also, someone wants fact checking on that. So let's go ahead and fact check that. Some wind turbines stopped working in the freezing cold. But the biggest failure uh in terms of its its
magnitude and its impact was the natural gas system. Natural gas, which actually contains water vapor, frozen storage wells and pipelines. Clearly, you can run an energy system in cold temperatures. There are wind turbines operating in Antarctica. This has happened in Texas before. In 1989, the same kind of Arctic storm caused natural gas plants to have the same problems, resulting in rolling
blackouts. And the same thing again in 2011.