This week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott appeared on local TV in Dallas and blamed the state’s power crisis on the devastating storm that disrupted power generation and froze natural gas pipelines.
He didn’t single out one power source to blame. Then he went on Fox News and gave a different story.
“Wind and solar got shut down,” he said. “They were collectively more than 10% of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis.”
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