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Folks, I know that the electricity market is
complicated.

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This is Jared Patterson.

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He's a state house representative representing
Eastern Denton County in

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Frisco.

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It's very complex.

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It's one of the the biggest and most
successful electricity

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markets in the entire United States.

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Successful, huh?

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Sure, you want to use that word.

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State officials have added another 59 deaths
to the total

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of those killed during the February freeze and
power outages.

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The new death tally by the Department of State
Health

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Services Tuesday.

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Raised the number of deaths from 151 to 210.

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More than four million Texans lost power.

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Many wouldn't get it back for nearly five
days.

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Even though the storm hit this huge area, it
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really just Texas that had major loss of
power.

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A lot of the time.

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Yeah, this is a big deal happening in
California being

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such a regulated state.

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And Donald Trump could fix this situation in a
snap.

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I mean, you basically do what he did.

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You deregulate the economy.

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But this isn't a Republican or Democrat issue.

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Texas is the only southern state that's
deregulated.

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So most of Texas is on its own grid.

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When Senate Bill 7 was passed in 1999 and the

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market was deregulated, it separated wall of
separation between church

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and state, between the wires companies and the
generators and

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the retailers.

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And the market bloomed, and we had a very
successful

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market for a long time until this
proliferation of wind

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power destroyed our market.

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Some wind turbines stopped working in the
freezing cold.

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But the biggest failure in terms of its
magnitude and

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its impact was the natural gas system.

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Natural gas, which actually contains water
vapor, frozen storage wells

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and pipelines.

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Every one of these systems failed.

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Wind isn't the reason the blackouts occurred.

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Texas's power grid failure was an indictment
of his political

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ideologies.

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The reason there were outages like the ones
that happened

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traced back to a degree deregulation agenda
where the Texas

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power grid is disconnected from two major
countrywide ones in

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order to avoid any federal oversight.

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Which Peterson won't do because he's on the
energy company's

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payroll and even admits it on his own LinkedIn
profile.