‘Several levers he can use’: Does Gov. Greg Abbott really have power over CenterPoint Energy?
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- Earlier this week, the Texas governor had a lot of tough talk for CenterPoint Energy.
“CenterPoint has completely dropped the ball with regard to getting power back on,” Gov. Greg Abbott said during his first news conference.
last time he did the "tough" talk, they paid him a million to look the other way. several outages have occurred since then. guess he wants another check.
But they not going to talk about that
Proof? Otherwise shut your pie hole
Abbot just working for a political donation there is no progress since the big freeze when the last time they ' fixed ' the grid
While people are dying in Houston, Abbot and ted were at the republican convention!!🤮🤮🤮🤮🤬🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
You were here. What did you do? Did you offer to help those in need? Did you offer to drive those without AC to a cooling shelter? Do you donate money to shelters or organizations that help those need? Of course not. No matter who is in office you have to learn to help others.
I am sure you have power or maybe you never lost power, many didn't. So what did you you besides it in a nice AC cooled home drinking a nice cool drink while others suffered and YOU DID NOTHING.
@dps6198 you don't know anything.we were without electricity for 4 days.
And yes. I helped some of my neighbors.
So, shut up!!
You are the one who doesn't know anything!!
ABBIT IS A Loser!!
He is full of hate!@
@@dps6198so do you know that person or are you just assuming to try and prove your weak points?
@@rynor2691😂😂😂😂Get'em rynor2691!!!!
@@rynor2691not "weak" points. OBVIOUS points. an answer to the question is appropriate
And here in lies the problem with monopolies.
Corporatism gone wrong. Why the hell is the essential infrastructure in the State of Texas at the mercy of private corporations? This is horrific.
This is a state level failure. Texas should have been regulating the hell out of centerpoint after the freeze making sure they are continuously cutting limbs and upgrading the system. In my neighborhood they come every 5 years and they only cut small branches nothing large. they also dont take care of branches above the lines only directly on the line be more proactive and tell crews to be more imaginative when trimming when the wind speeds are 80+ everything is going flying. this is just wishful thinking but id like them take care of lines going into houses. this was cat 1 storm what happens when the next one is a 5 or last longer then a day our power grid will be wiped away. From my understanding houston is a pretty important city for the us if texas wont step up to protect it then maybe houston request the feds to protect our grid
His inability to do anything for Texas should make people see and reevaluate if they vote for him
Gov, Abbot talks the talk but can he Walk the Walk, ohhhh got ya..
REREGULATE ELECTRICITY
DEREGULATION HAS CONSEQUENCES
The governor should require new subdivisions to have their electricity cables underground
Why now! He has served 2 terms and this continues to happen. People has died in Houston and Texas overall.
Why is Centerpointless the only power company in Houston?? We live in a small town and have 4 power companies depending on where u live. Why cant Houston do the same! Just dont get it!!🤔
People died so they should be charged with murder.
Nothing but talk!!! Until that check clears!!!!
A tree in my backyard fell on the power line, and the pole fell. They came and fixed the power line and pole but there is still another tree close to the power line that they didn't trim down.
Abbot is going to blame the immigrants!!😂😂😂😂😂😂
they definitely do exacerbate any given situation
Deregulation does not work, period. Houston Lighting & Power, the old power co. before dereg, used to have trucks up and down neighborhood streets with linemen maintaining power lines or tree crews maintaining overgrown vegetation near power lines. It is the responsibility of power co. to regularly maintain vegetation (power lines are where they make money!) instead of "outsourcing for free" to regular citizens.
Of course deregulation doesn't work and it didn't' work during regulation. The power companies are NOT responsible for keeping trees trimmed and away from power lines. The city who planted many of those trees along city streets and the citizens who let their trees grow on the easement where power poles and lines are situation. When storms winds break branches and fell trees they will disrupt power.
Abbott just talking trash for the cameras. He's at Centerpoint right now negotiating his new price. At the 0.20 mark, he started stuttering when he said if Centerpoint doesn't comply to his request, they are going to re-evaluate. He's either lying or he has a speech impediment. I'm gonna choose the 1st one.
He just asked for bigger campaign contributions. That's it, and that's all!
John whitmire is an centerpoint investor
Centerpoint "bought" the governor, what don't y'all get??????
Greg Abbott is so full of it. He’s just talking. He was in Asia while this was going on
I know one thing it ain’t just Centerpoint people are mad at it’s Xfinity to and I am going to cancel mine because I have tried getting through their line and they keep hanging up on me I don’t want to go with a company that hangs up on you and don’t transfer you to an agent so come August I will be kissing Xfinity goodbye to governor and I won’t credit for all these days that I have not had cable
Greg was in China with the Centerpoint CEO when this happened. They also contributed a lot to him. I like Abbot but this is not being r
Paid for peoples foods dump
Abbott is all talk, unless it comes to taking away womens rights lol
Is Abbott able to regulate Texas's notably unregulatable power grid? Tonight at 12
He could . The BUSHWACKERS DEREGULATED ELECTRICITY WITHOUT THE PUBLIC PERMISSION OR VOTE.
What happened to Houston Lighting and Power? I was raised in Pasadena and Houston always had good Power, at least in the 60's thru the late 80's. We suffered thru tropical storms and hurricanes regularly but it seems like somebody down there has screwed the pooch.
Good luck on supporting big business! Thoughts and prayers!
So in reality he has no authority lol
Do coops price gouge?
Power co-op's suck, especially in rural areas of Texas.
@@johnevans1969 My power only was out for 5 hours and the eye went right over this area. I'm at the edge of the grid and my experience has been way better than any of the cities.
What will he do about the infrastructure?
It;s not the governments job to create power infrastructure. That's private business job
The bottom line is they chose certain positions due to the savings. Everyone is trying to save and not spend. Bidenomics.
This has zero to do with Biden. Do your research on exactly why TX has this shotty system to begin with. They didn’t want to deal with government interference. This is the result of no oversight. Let the politicians and corrupt corps who make politicians rich and run things like a business. Their bottom line is profits, taxpayers be damned.