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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (32256)	2/11/2011 10:27:15 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

LMAO. It was sheer Texan incompetence. I've read La. protects against freeze-ups, but they have, gasp, a regulation for that...the wrap your pipe regulation.... That bit surprised me as well. They don't heat-trace (thermostatically controlled electric heat strips that run along piping to prevent just such a freeze) in Texas? Refineries here in New Orleans heat-trace everything and it very rarely gets below freezing here, much less cold enough to gel crude hydrocarbons. I would have to say this is a product of Texas's de-regulation. Louisiana has been hit with similar weather, albeit not as bad as gets in the panhandle, and has no such grid outages. And we export electricity to Texas! theoildrum.com