In February of last year, the Texas power grid suffered a massive failure, leaving 4.5 million people without electricity and about 700 dead. As we approach the anniversary of that power grid failure (and more bad weather on the way), many Texans are not convinced that the state's Republican legislature (and Governor) have fixed the problem.They claimed to have fixed the problem, but the truth is they did very little other than to ask electric suppliers to winterize their systems. But they did not force that winterization, and it is unlikely that many suppliers did what was necessary to prevent another failure. Instead, they are hoping that Texas is not hit again by such a massive winter storm.
That is not enough. With global climate change continuing to get worse, it is likely Texas will see another massive winter storm -- if not this year, then in the next few years.
As the chart above shows, 47% of Texas voters think the energy grid is not prepared to weather another massive winter storm.
The chart reflects the result of the new Dallas Morning News / UT at Tyler Poll -- done between January 18th and 25th of a sample of 1,082 registered voters in Texas, with a 3.5 point margin of error.
