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Texas pays 11 dollars per kilowatt hour. Far lower than left wing states and has a manufacturing base. The market grid bids down prices for the right to sell electricity. That is one major reason companies move to Texas. Louisiana and Oklahoma, and states may be cheaper, but they don't have a manufacturing base.
Every Texan I know has a generator to deal with the unreliability of the grid, and there's never been an article about someone in Iowa getting a surprise $100k electric bill...and the average wage in Texas is substantially lower than in "left wing" states like California or Washington...so not sure you're making an apples-to-apples comparison, but time will be the judge, we can all check-in in a year and see how this plays out. Does Lemmy have a remind me! bot?
So none?
I lived in TX while I was stationed there for like 3 years. Exactly 0 people I've met there had a generator.
The cost of living is also significantly less.
Where it's double my mortgage payment to have a 2 be apartment?
I think that it's a good idea to have a generator in places that get serious storms, and coastal Texas can get hurricanes. I don't think that this is something specific to Texas' power generation, which is what I think the parent commenter is complaining about. Florida, which really gets whacked with hurricanes, is somewhere I'd really want to have a generator.
Texas is big. You have tornados in the north, hurricanes in the south, and a lot of nothin' in the west. Some areas it makes sense to have a generator, but in many parts, it really doesn't.
I'd rather take their statement for what it literally was. Since that's what they went out of their way to explain. And since you're not them...
Very few Texans I knew (with the number being literally 0)... for years of living there. And myself during that time. Did not have a generator. That's it. Short of them providing any actual evidence of their claim. It's been dispelled. That's it.
Should they have one? I don't really care to comment deeply on that. I didn't see a point to having one while I lived there. So I would assume most people would also come to the same conclusion.