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“And we know where that comes from. It's a coalition of wealthy landowners it's the Bass Brothers from Fort Worth. It's Dan Friedkin, who's a Hollywood producer and banker. We know about the folks down in South Texas. These are people who own hobby ranches. Rea…”

“They had a spokesman who tweeted out an image of a helicopter spraying a liquid onto a wind turbine, and the caption was, a fossil fuel powered helicopter sprays fossil fuels on a clean energy device to generate electricity. Now, of course, the image was not f…”

“The big, nasty bill that was You know, still alive as of Saturday until it was ripped out by negotiators was something called Senate Bill six 24. And it creates a list of places where if a wind farm is within 10 miles or a solar facility is within five miles o…”

“This is going to be really expensive. It's also going to be highly political because we don't know yet what the PUC will assign to different facilities, but it will definitely slow down new investment in Texas, renewable energy.”

“Texas is the only state in the country where pipelines get to own the gas inside the pipeline, and it allows pipeline generators to manipulate prices.”

“They are giving natural gas generators nine billion dollars a year in subsidies to help them compete with renewables.”

“One of the proposals was to mandate that 50% of Texas energy must come from fossil fuels. That measure didn't pass, but it kind of set the tone for what followed.”

“Well, you know, the Texas Consumer Association says that we saved about thirty-one billion dollars on our electricity bills over the last decade, thanks to wind and solar.”

“Well, I mean, there was one bill to ban all future renewable energy development.”

“A lot of these laws will make that battery storage even more economical, even if it's going to hurt future wind and solar projects.”

“We are running out of proven reserves in what we call tier one assets. So the cheapest, easiest oil and gas to obtain has been drilled.”

“So as we see natural gas prices rise, as they inevitably will over the next five to 10 years, We'll also see renewables become more popular as conservative politicians try to save consumers money.”

“They have taken a huge chunk of the market away from coal, and they're cutting into natural gas's market share for providing electricity to the state, and there are oil and gas guys who really don't want to give up anything else.”

“And it's about a million dollars a mile to run a transmission line in Texas.”

“You know, we've got 80 gigawatts of battery storage in the queue to interconnect into the ERCOT grid at, right now.”