'Soviet' headline abetted false Republican rhetoric

Mr. Allen is correct. The only thing “Soviet Style” about the power disaster was the political rhetoric.

The ERCOT grid has been limping alone for years, just as the old Soviet Union did until each broke down. Ed Hirs statement did not say that the old Soviet Union owned private property and was not calling ERCOT a Soviet-style bureau. If you remember, just before it's the old Soviet Union collapsed they were doing things like reusing syringes and other medical equipment that should be used once.

ERCOT has been doing the same by just patching the problem's and not fixing them. I went thru the same thing in one of the companies that I worked for, with a outcome that was not good.

This is the statement that Ed Hirs made.

"Ed Hirs, an energy fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, blamed the failures on the state’s deregulated power system, which doesn’t provide power generators with the returns needed to invest in maintaining and improving power plants."

“The ERCOT grid has collapsed in exactly the same manner as the old Soviet Union,” said Hirs. in exactly the same manner as the old Soviet Union,” said Hirs. “It limped along on underinvestment and neglect until it finally broke under predictable circumstances.

“For more than a decade, generators have not been able to charge what it costs them to produce electricity,” said Hirs. “If you don’t make a return on your money, how can you keep it up? It’s like not taking care of your car. If you don’t change the oil and tires, you can’t expect your car to be ready to evacuate, let alone get you to work.”

That grid would have held up if Red China had given the instructions on how to build it, and not the Solviet Union I bet. Red China is our friend, ..China sells us cheap stuff made from SLAVE labor.