{"id":175848,"date":"2020-11-12T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/12\/can-we-please-give-texas-back-to-mexico\/"},"modified":"2020-11-12T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T00:47:00","slug":"can-we-please-give-texas-back-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/12\/can-we-please-give-texas-back-to-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Please Give Texas Back to Mexico?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  In the episode of the continuing series,   <i>Of Course They Did, It&#8217;s Texas<\/i>, a bill has been submitted in the state   house that   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/business\/energy\/article\/Texas-bill-would-tax-wind-solar-generation-but-15719128.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&amp;utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral\">would tax solar and wind power, but not fossil fuels<\/a>, because \u2026\u2026\u2026 I don&#8217;t know, maybe owning the libs? <\/p>\n<p>  There are fools, there are damn fools, and then there is the Texas   legislature: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Power bills likely would rise next year for Texas consumers who get their     electricity from wind, solar, coal and nuclear generation if the Legislature     approves a bill filed this week. <\/p>\n<p>The bill from state Rep. Ken     King would add 1 cent to every kilowatt hour of energy generated. The tax     likely would be passed on to consumers, adding about $12 a month to bills     for households that use 1,200 kilowatt hours of renewable power sources each     month. Power generated from natural gas would be exempt from the tax.     <\/p>\n<p>Wind produced about 20 percent of electricity last year in     Texas, which is the nation&#8217;s leader in wind power generation, and 47 percent     came from natural gas, according to the state&#8217;s grid manager, the Electric     Reliability Council of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Metzger, executive director of     the Austin-based clean energy advocacy group Environment Texas, said the     bill makes no sense. <br \/><\/span>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">It flies against the rhetoric of Texas&#8217; market-based system of       electricity, putting the thumb on the scale for natural gas and raising       taxes on Texans by $2.3 billion every year,\u201d he said in a prepared       statement. \u201cIt would also discourage wind and solar power, which are       reducing pollution, helping us tread more lightly on the planet, and       boosting rural economies.<\/span>  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, this guy should have been drowned at birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the episode of the continuing series, Of Course They Did, It&#8217;s Texas, a bill has been submitted in the state house that would tax solar and wind power, but not fossil fuels, because \u2026\u2026\u2026 I don&#8217;t know, maybe owning the libs? There are fools, there are damn fools, and then there is the Texas &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[457,588,449,406,480,403],"class_list":["post-175848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-energy","tag-fail","tag-legislation","tag-stupid","tag-taxes","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}