(Bloomberg) -- If President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was looking for ammunition in his quest to cut Mexico’s reliance on foreign energy, it would be hard to top the electricity blackouts affecting the north of the country.
Mexico reported 4.77 million homes and businesses losing power Monday after imports of natural gas from the U.S. were curbed, knocking power stations offline.
The disruption is a spillover of the worst electricity crisis in recent history in the U.S., where freakishly cold weather cut oil and gas output.
Mexico has restored 80% of electricity in northern states and expects power to fully return Wednesday or Thursday, Lopez Obrador said at a press briefing Tuesday. But he didn’t miss the opportunity to make a political point.
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WNU Editor: This is a wake-up call for Mexico.
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This is the result of a Liberal designed SNAFU chain reaction.
Joe Biden is not hobbling. He is walking pretty fast, but there is a catch in his step. His right leg has a stutter. He broke his right foot and maybe that is all it is. They said it would take several weeks. It has been several weeks. Eleven weeks and change could loosely be considered several.
Joe is right side dominant, so his right leg lagging like that is concerning. Maybe after the cast came off, he is not doing physical therapy?
Is the catch or limp muscle memory form having the cast on for almost 2 months?
On another note isn't pulling a dog's tail animal cruelty?
On a darker note playing while stepping out of the shower?
Joe Biden Hobbles Over to Air Force One En Route to CNN Town Hall Event in Wisconsin
Joe Biden says he broke foot tripping after shower when he pulled dog’s tail
No one owes you [or] your family anything,” Tim Boyd wrote on Tuesday in a now-deleted Facebook post, according to KTXS and KTAB/KRBC. “I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!”
Boyd’s tirade, which also demanded that “lazy” residents find their own ways of procuring water and electricity, immediately drew backlash. Later on Tuesday, Boyd announced his resignation and admitted that he could have “used better wording.”
Dangerous Arctic chill leaves more than a dozen dead, widespread power outages across the southern U.S.
The controversy highlighted how one of the worst winter storms in decades is testing the limits of the embrace of self-sufficiency and rugged individualism in Texas. The state’s decision to skirt federal oversight by operating its own power grid is one of the main reasons that close to 3.3 million residents in Texas still lacked electricity by early Wednesday morning, while outages in other hard-hit states had dwindled to less than one-tenth of that size. As of late Tuesday, grid operators still couldn’t predict when the lights might turn on, and advocates were warning that Texas’s poorest and most vulnerable residents were at risk of freezing to death. At least 10 deaths in Texas have been linked to the winter storm since Monday, according to the Houston Chronicle.
The failure to deliver basic services has angered countless Texans, including top-ranking elected officials. But in Colorado City, Boyd rejected the notion that municipal governments or utility companies had any obligation to provide paying customers with necessities like heat and running water during a catastrophic winter storm.
“The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING!” he wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.
Boyd suggested that residents without electricity should simply “step up and come up with a game plan.” Those without running water could either deal with it, or “think outside of the box to survive and supply water to your family.” He did not offer any further guidance, such as where safe drinking water or reliable electricity could be found.
“Only the strong will survive and the weak will [perish],” he wrote.
The Texas grid got crushed because its operators didn’t see the need to prepare for cold weather
Biden doing a great job and his numbers show this! Trump never in four years got over 50% approval!
Your vomit only dribbling on YOU
Liar
Mayor Boyd was mayor of Colorado City, Texas.
Population (2010) Total 4,146
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_City,_Texas
So 9:16 had a profound comment about what mayor of a city of under 5,000 had to say. Probably 1/2 are or a third are children.
So this mayor was elected by 1,000 to 3,000 adults. Still a big job. Maybe he was tired that a few hundred people looked to him for something that was outside his bailiwick. On the fly he cannot change the utilities in a few days.
9:16 does not know what Boyd had or did not have on his plate or if he could even leave his job to visit ERCOT to lobby. But 9:!6 the dribbling idiot only can repeat and copy what a WaPo journalist oozed out of his orifices.
Come on 8:16. What if Boyd's employer would not let him take off a few days to go lobby. Just what is Boyd going to do in a week or less?
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