Texas mayor quits after calling residents ‘lazy’ and ‘weak’ amid power outages from storm
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COLORADO CITY, Texas -- The mayor of this Texas town of about 4,000 people stepped down Tuesday in the wake of a controversial social media post in which he said residents without electricity and water due to a winter storm are "lazy" and "weak," adding that local government and utility services owned them "nothing," ABC
Dirty stuff went down:
📌Texas electricity ⚡️ power plants didn’t want absorb the cost of natural gas surge. So it cut the power.
📌Texas @[email protected] gets the rules changed so power company can price gouge consumers—
All while folks freeze & vaccines spoil.
#texaspoweroutage https://twitter.com/jmontforttx/status/1361703554789031937
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1361802979079311362
“It's looking like power plants in Texas unplugged to avoid skyrocketing natural gas spot market rates that went to hundreds of $$ to avoid losses. @ERCOT_ISO has now passed an emergency order allowing them to charge consumers those spot market prices. Capitalism at its finest.”
Been hearing from so many friends and family members in Texas about the situation there. Take care and hope this blows over soon.
"More than 4 million people in the state were without power early Tuesday." 😮