If you read the article, you would have answered your own question.

Californians have their own identity and within California you have independence movements within the state away from California.

You would think a democracy would outlaw misinformation and lies from politicians as to be honest to the public, but no…

Texas should bring Oklahoma with it. Then it should join OPEC.

Right because you know what I look like from your computer screen. You know everything, don’t you?

We left because the area was bad. The area had a lot of criminal activity, drug overdoses, and drunks falling over the balcony face first, busting their gums on the pavement. I don’t miss urban D-FW. Well, if it makes feel special to accuse other people of being racists because they think people who like MS-13 with teardrop under their eye, which I heard that in certain gangs means they killed somebody, as being weird, and untrustworthy. You need to take care of your self-esteem.

May be because I don’t live in Dallas. I lived in the metro when I was younger. Good observation. Pat yourself on the back.

There is no law that prevents me from using my mobile phone and record you. If you can do it, why can’t the DPD? That makes no sense. Google spies on you, and other marketing companies buy their data. So what? Why do you need privacy in a public space? That is illogical. I have cameras everywhere that records the street and I record people who are acting up. The police use body cams. Without recording people, perhaps Derek Chauvin wouldn’t have gone to prison. It is an irrational fear. European countries have surveillance. Cameras make certain people think about their actions when they know they are being recorded, and video can be used as evidence. Are you saying the DPD are going to “deepfake” you planting cocaine with the video? Lol. What a secure society needs is the removal of all guns except for hunting license, and police departments need body armor and packing firepower. They need to record everybody in public. I fully support that. Those are taxes well spent, if there ever were any good taxes. A country like Japan does not need cameras because they have a harmonious culture. American culture on the other hand is wild and Americans believe they are dignified in their rebellious ways, and being lawless, even looking like freaks with a bone across their nose. You can literally be in your yard taking your dog a bath and a psycho will show up to threaten to steal your car and threaten to kill you with absolutely no provocation. That is America at the bottom. I have been around for many years and I have never been abused by a cop. I am not a white person, and a white supremacist would not think I am worthy of life. Sure, there are corrupt and psycho cops, but I bet that the majority of people who complain about cops are inharmonious people who are troublemakers. As I said, wild.

How it is a privacy concern when paparazzi can snap photos of celebrities in public? This is good technology to improve security for citizens. I support it.

California electricity prices now second-highest in United States - https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/electricity-price-rate-pge-19429422.php

Certainly, but Texas is mostly Cfa, humid subtropical; it isn’t always clear skies in Texas. Texas does get a lot of cloudy skies. There is a reason why solar and wind have climate recommendations; that is for maximizing reliability. I just don’t think that solar power from West Texas and wind from the Texas panel handle going all the way to the population centers and the population core of Texas is worth it. Activist claim solutions, but they are comprises, not solutions. I support regional grids that take advantage of their own strengths. Northwest Texas and the panhandle should take advantage of wind energy for their own consumption. It is costly to export the energy. This is true of exports in general consumer standard of living; it is better for Texans, and Americans to consume their own energy, than it is to export., because it is cheaper Especially, when you have a federal government that has economic sanctions on fungible commodity and now puts the responsibility on supplying more oil and natural gas due to artificial supply restrictions.

There are no omissions regarding fossil fuels; we all know they pollute. Omissions are in the renewable energy news media. They tell you all the positive sides of wind and solar, and none of the negatives. That is propaganda, the very definition of the word; typical of Western news media.

KEY QUOTE “With the growth of renewables, the retirement of base load fossil-fired generation and the dependence on renewables, on days renewables are not showing up, it’s going to be very pricey,” said Amperon CEO Kelly.

It is federal policies that are undermining industry growth. Wind and solar are not industrial scale energy. Texas does not need these renewables. California is benefitting because of the heavy rainstorms which power their electric dams. What you get with solar and wind is expensive energy because the backup energy will not have a fixed volume of supply, those power plants have to be in standby, not making profits, and when they do come online, it is spot market distribution. The problem is the Federal Government, that is pushing the market into malicious investment. I am not against wind and solar, but they are no replacement for base load energy. If you hear otherwise, then you are consuming propaganda. Base energy generates revenues by constant generation. Germany is an example of what renewables will do; renewables deindustrializes an economy. Considering the unpredictable nature, it is questionable whether building transmission lines just for these energy types is really all that worth it.

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It should not be a paywall on first visit to the website. I just tested on another browser and I received none.

Texas politicians need to get over the hurdle of “NIMBY” with the voters. They need to somehow circumvent the voter or get sneaky with legislation that relaxes zoning laws statewide.