They did change one thing. You used to be able to get electricity at wholesale prices from certain providers. When the rates went crazy during the 2021 storm and people's crazy bills for turning on the lamp blew up on the news, they shut down that option.

These rate surges do hurt customers, but now it's in the form of rate increases when their contract expires.

Rationality is out of the window. Ideology is the new religion. They don't want to become "socialists" even though they don't know what it truly means.

Correct.

Didn't the state basically re-elect everyone who oversaw that shit show?

Instead of requiring weatherization, they allowed power plants to opt out.

Lawmakers on the Senate Business and Commerce Committee were frustrated that the new law allows natural gas companies to opt out of weatherization requirements if they don’t voluntarily declare themselves to be “critical infrastructure” with the state.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/28/texas-power-grid-loophole/

It’s absolutely wild. The last time around, people died, and a lot more were put into financial hardship due to the shitty, hypercapitalist energy infrastructure. People were rightly ripshit angry about it.

And then nothing was done about any of it.

And then people keep voting for the politicians who created and perpetuated the situation.

It’s really hard to keep giving a shit about people who actively work and vote to make their own lives worse.

Desire for more money overrides literally every other thought for those who have the most

they almost learned nothing. The grid almost shutdown this time, instead of shutting down...

Sure we have: profits are worth more than 200 lives, and counting.