hereās a transcription of what this guy says in this video, because he talks extremely fast ā iām also including sources wherever possible, in case anybody wants to do some further reading or wants proof
If youāre looking at Texas right now and thinking, āIt seems pretty bad that a stateās electrical grid can fail overnight from a snowstorm,ā I have news for you. Itās so much worse than you could ever imagine. Donāt be a heartless idiot and blame āred state voters;ā itās red states, blue states, purple states, green states, everywhere is in crisis.
In 2017, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave our energy grid a D+, because almost all of it was built in the 1950s and 60s with a 50-year life expectancy, and weāre 10 to 20 years past that. Across the country, 640,000 miles of high voltage lines run at full capacity at almost all times, which is way more than the grid was designed to handle, and Texas in particular has one of the worst ratios between planned and real capacity.
Itās so bad that the US Government has said that if just nine of Americaās 55,000 electrical substations are brought down, it could cause a coast-to-coast blackout lasting 18 months or more. And testimony from the executive director of Task Force on National and Homeland Security has said that a prolonged collapse of the electrical grid could result in the death of up to 90% of the American population. [screenshot in the video has highlighted text from this source, saying:Ā āa prolonged collapse of this nationās electrical gridāthrough starvation, disease, and societal collapseācould result in the death of up to 90% of the American population.ā]
Today, the US has more power outages than any other developed country. And thatās because 68% of the electricity in the US is managed by investor-owned privatized utility companiesĀ [the source I found said itās actually 72%], and updating their systems cuts into their profits, so they donāt do anything until something fails. And when things do fail, and, for example, start massive wildfires in California, guess who pays for it? Mostly taxpayers.Ā
Thereās no good news, and thatās just the tip of the iceberg, because all of Americaās infrastructure is failing, so Iām gonna keep doing videos about it.
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