This has serious potential to overwhelm Paso Robles and San Luis Obispo county hotel capacities and take away space from tourism – the vital backbone of our city’s economy.
Posted by Al Fonzi | Mar 31, 2021
By Al Fonzi
Al Fonzi is an independent opinion columnist for The Atascadero News and Paso Robles Press; you can email him at atascaderocolumnist@gmail.com.
My March 11 column, “A Dark Green Power Failure,” panned by critics as “no facts to back up (my assertions),” was based upon data from the government’s Energy Information Administration and documented by national publications such as The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot) states that Texas “counts on wind to meet only 10 percent of its winter capacity,” but this statement requires further analysis.
Posted by Al Fonzi | Mar 31, 2021
By Al Fonzi
Al Fonzi is an independent opinion columnist for The Atascadero News and Paso Robles Press; you can email him at atascaderocolumnist@gmail.com.
My March 11 column, “A Dark Green Power Failure,” panned by critics as “no facts to back up (my assertions),” was based upon data from the government’s Energy Information Administration and documented by national publications such as The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot) states that Texas “counts on wind to meet only 10 percent of its winter capacity,” but this statement requires further analysis.
By Thomas Elias
Thomas Elias is an independent opinion columnist for Paso Robles Press; you can email him at tdelias@aol.com.
Memo to Larry Ellison (Oracle Corp.), Elon Musk (Tesla), and other Californians eyeing a move to Texas because it has no state income tax but does feature lower living expenses and far less government regulation than California:
Think twice, maybe three times, before you leap.
That’s one lesson of the mid-February combination of blizzard and deep-freeze that struck the Lone Star state, dropping some outdoor temperatures near zero and indoor levels into the 30s and sometimes lower.