My mechanic said Toyota made a stripped down bare bones truck but they banned it in NA for concerns it would steal too much business from NA auto manufacturers.
If true, that doesn’t really sound like a free market to me. Maybe the domestic market would adapt to follow suit and we’d all benefit. But nah. Follow the big easy bucks.
I am no fan of data centers, but natural gas is very clean, even cleaner than burning wood. So yes, natural gas does meet most jurisdictional regulations.Texas also has the most wind turbines of any state.
Texas is a backwards ass state when it comes to its politics, but their energy grid is pretty good.
it is literally the most decrepit energy grid in North America. Mexico's is better, unironically.
They deliberately removed themselves from the national grid so the could have lower standards and do less maintenance - and then it paid off for them when it failed in mild winter weather and killed people.
And has failed totaly again at least twice more since then.
Maybe try living in the real world with the rest of us.
Yeah absolutely bizarre take. I am all about green energy, but this 'everything Texas bad' take just makes people look ignorant.
Texas is right behind California on green energy in gross Twh, and South Dakota has the largest percentage of green energy. Two distinctly red states with some of the more modern grids in the country.
You seem to be talking about green energy. I wonder if the comment you’re responding to is referring to the actual reliability of the infrastructure rather than green energy specifically.
The above poster, doesn’t get it or has a home generator, which, parts of Texas make mandatory, due to hurricanes.
Either way, I remember, no AC, for three weeks after Ike, and another three weeks after the most recent hurricane, while the Governor sat on his ass in Austin waiting to pay people his rate, instead of getting power on. Not the standard rate, his rate.
I doubted that claim on natural gas and now I'm disinclined to look it up because you discredit yourself with your claim that Texas' energy grid is "pretty good". It's famously dysfunctional and Ted Cruz notoriously flees to Cancun whenever it goes down in the middle of winter.
Every single person actually interested in the environment, will tell you that any fossil fuel is bad. Any amount is bad. More is worse. As far as I know, resource consumption, water and energy, is one of the top complaints about data centers.
So the variable conviction is on the side of the people making the rules, not on the side of the people who actually have convictions.
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u/TransparentMastering 9h ago
My mechanic said Toyota made a stripped down bare bones truck but they banned it in NA for concerns it would steal too much business from NA auto manufacturers.
If true, that doesn’t really sound like a free market to me. Maybe the domestic market would adapt to follow suit and we’d all benefit. But nah. Follow the big easy bucks.