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Something is wrong with mouser
floobydust:
One Texas Resident Still Has Power, but His Bill Is Now Over $8,000
"... Texas resident owes power company, Griddy, $8,162.73 for his electricity use in February. The total was a steep increase compared with his bill for his two-story home last month, which was $387.79"
Maybe only residential customers got this kind of Wall Street treatment "Greed is good, greed is legal". Hopefully Mouser and other businesses aren't going to get hit like this?
Critical infrastructure in the hands of corporations always fails - they only want max profit.
olkipukki:
--- Quote from: jmelson on February 18, 2021, 11:41:19 pm ---Mouser is in Texas. UPS sent out a message that ALL pickup and delivery service in I think 9 states are suspended for the next several days, including Texas.
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Mouser has postponed all deliveries until the next week, so more than 1+ week delay overall
--- Quote from: jmelson on February 18, 2021, 11:41:19 pm ---Digi-Key is in Minnesota, where they know how to deal with snow.
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DK didn't accept any orders at all on a few occasions, asked 'Contact Us' to discuss or 3-5 days delay "due to COVID"
TimFox:
In the US, there are three major power grids: Eastern, Western, and Texas. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_power_transmission_grid
Apparently, Texas didn't want intrusive Federal regulation of their power, which might require extra investment to ensure reliability in extreme conditions.
One of many news articles about the politics around the Texas grid: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/16/ercot-texas-electric-grid-failure/
VK3DRB:
Privatising vital utilities such as power is very bad policy. Vital utilities should be owned by the people for the people. Texas is a basket case. An Australian bank owns chunk of Texas's enegry supplies and has profited from misery...
https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/macquarie-jacks-up-profits-on-texas-big-freeze-20210222-p574jo
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on February 22, 2021, 07:30:49 am ---Privatising vital utilities such as power is very bad policy. Vital utilities should be owned by the people for the people. Texas is a basket case. An Australian bank owns chunk of Texas's enegry supplies and has profited from misery...
https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/macquarie-jacks-up-profits-on-texas-big-freeze-20210222-p574jo
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It's amazing how self-harming people can be, once they get infatuated with an ideal - in this case, "free" markets.
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