one of my favorite guys . former
texas rancher, david simpson .
david your still filled with
common sense . what is your take
with what is going on in texas
with the blackouts are free to.
david: as rick said, this is a
storm of unprecedented severity
and duration.
with the dynamics of this, over
the last decade, texas has
4 million newew president.
and the base electrical
generation capacity it and thus
with this is all about, the base
generational electric it
capacity.
they have decreased from
33 percent of the red down to
about 20 percent . is been no
new nuclear energy unit built in
texas since 1992.
and gas-fired generation has
been stable.
texas has doubled it down the on
greater reliancee on wind and
solar which can be helpful when
conditions are perfect.
but that somebody needed when
the weather is severe that's
really been the problem that we
have encountered over the last