On Wednesday evening, spot electricity prices topped $5,000 per megawatt-hour, up more than 200 times from Wednesday morning.

  • Texas power prices soared 20,000% Wednesday evening amid another brutal heat wave.

  • Spot electricity prices topped $5,000 per megawatt-hour, up more than 200 times from Wednesday morning.

  • The state’s grid operator issued its second-highest energy emergency, then later said conditions returned to normal.

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
    9·
    1 year ago

    Of course, but the only way out is to push through. People need to understand that although republicans put their fingers on the scales in any way they can get away with, with enough resistance and turnout, this can absolutely be overcome. Jaded ideas about election interference, gerrymandering, etc. only create hopeless apathy and make it easier for them to retain a tight grip on power.

    In fact, gerrymandering is often carefully calibrated to a particular electoral environment. It often involves creating many districts with just enough votes to be safe for the incumbent. But if that environment shifts, it can actually backfire as there are a huge number of districts with a similar level of partisan split. If you get enough votes to flip those, there can be a huge change.

    • Demonbooker@lemmy.world
      32·
      1 year ago

      While your right that the way past it is to literally push through and get the numbers up to break their margins, that’s hard to do when the system is rigged to make it so difficult to vote it might require you taking an entire day off to do it. So many people are living paycheck to paycheck that they can’t afford that, and the people with disposable income and time to do that are the old and the rich who typically vote republican. Which is the point.