Texas governor walks back Fox News comments on Green New Deal, says gas, coal failed in Texas freeze

[januoro]

Source: The Week

While millions of Texans were without power in below-freezing temperatures Tuesday night, Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott (R) went on Fox News and told Sean Hannity that the failure of the state's power grid "shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America." Abbott said "our wind and our solar got shut down," which "thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power in a statewide basis." The main culprit for the Texas power outages is failures in the natural gas sector, though, so on Wednesday, Abbott walked back his comments.

"I was asked a question on one TV show about renewable, and I responded to that question," Abbott said. "Every source of power that the state of Texas has has been compromised, whether it be renewable power such as wind or solar, but also, as I mentioned today, access to coal-generated power, access to gas-generated power, also have been compromised."

Read more: https://theweek.com/speedreads/967540/texas-governor-walks-back-fox-news-comments-green-new-deal-says-gas-coal-failed-texas-freeze

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The fact-checkers caught him on a lie.

[dogknob]

1. Screw him. He made his point on national TV. Big Lie wins again.

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. Bingo

That has been one of Republican tactics for a long time. Go on national Fox TV to create a false narrative where its someone else s fault, probably some Democrat. Then can skip back to their riding or State and quietly "clarify" their statement on local news. Yeah that retraction will be publicized....like on DU etc...or a 5 second spot on network news, but the damage is done. MOST Republican voters will now believe the Big first Lie. So that when The Green New Deal ever comes up again, they will have the Pavlovian response they have been conditioned to have.

[Midnight Writer]

11. Exactly. Shows one face on FOX, shows another face on MSM.

[riversedge]

16. sadly, you are right.

[marble falls]

2. He didn't walk it back far enough ...

Wind power lost 30% capacity, petroleum/nat gas lost 80%.

[getagrip_already]

5. actually, what I heard was much different...

Wind actually saw a slight net gain in overall production. Sure, some turbines went off line, but do to higher than average winds the others over produced to plan. The net output was still higher than pre outage levels.

Don't know about solar. But that isn't really badly affected by cold as much as cloud cover.

[marble falls]

6. 30% loss in wind is no big deal: they give the power away for free at night due to over production.

[Laelth]

7. I heard something similar.

Not that wind had a net increase in production, but that wind suffered the least loss in production. Natural gas saw the greatest loss in production due to the freeze.



-Laelth

[JohnnyRingo]

3. That's mighty big of him....

...but it would be better if he went back on Hannity's show and walked it back to the wackos who heard him before. As it is, Hannity will continue to make republican hay while the anti-liberal sun shines on him, and Fox viewers will blame the socialists' love of renewables.

[Fullduplexxx]

4. He said what they needed to say for their base

[perfessor]

8. He shouts the lie,

and mumbles the retraction. Typical.

[Grokenstein]

9. Project: Unf#@$ That Chicken

Hopefully it'll be as big a failure as the rest of his "reign" and put an end to same.

[Warpy]

12. This is what will eventually sink all these mendacious hosers.

Dumdum never told the truth and got away with it because so many poor, desperate, dim people are susceptible to star power.

Men like Abbot and the rest lack that kind of weird charisma. They're not going to get away with bald faced lies on the scale of Duymdum. I don't think they'll realize that until it is far too late.

[turbinetree]

13. Some more of libertarian double speak to defend his ass.............

there are tapes dipshit..............


Resign right along with your other corrupt bought off oil and gas legislature ...............

[turtleblossom]

14. First of all, the Green New Deal hasn't been put in place yet.

TX is a very red state. At what point in time have they implemented anything green that affected pretty much the entire state?

[R B Garr]

15. So why even give these clowns a chance to obfuscate

and lie with such an unvetted and unrealistic set of talking points as the Green New Deal. We need to be taken seriously. Now they pin the Green New Desk on every Democrat when the reality is that even Democrats defeated that during our primaries. Brand building is only good in some districts.

[ck4829]

17. K&R