The great sovereign state of Texas is the home of fossil fuels, rugged individuals, and the free market. Consistent with those concepts, the state built a power grid which is designed to be self-sufficient, and which provides an option for consumers to pay wildly higher rates during times of peak demand. Furthermore, there was no effort to winterize facilities, because climate change is, of course, nothing but a hoax, and because spending money for maintenance would drive up prices in the short run.
Now, of course, the bills are coming due, and guess who’s going to pay? Blue America, of course, through disaster relief. Expect the representatives of the great sovereign state to express their gratitude, much as they do after hurricanes, by objecting to state and local government pandemic relief as a “blue state bailout.”