I read about T. Boon Pickens and his plan to build huge wind farms across the high plains from Texas to Canada.  This is already going on in the Texas panhandle.  He, Mr. Pickens, is quoted as saying that Texas is the Saudi Arabia of potential wind power.  There is one problem though not mentioned in the stuff I have read.  Texas is not connected to the North American Power Grids.  All electricity generated in Texas must stay in Texas.  This is because the power companies in Texas have prevented any "Texas power" from crossing the state line so they, the power companies would fall under the jurisdiction of the Texas Railroad Commission instead of the Federal Trade Commission because they are NOT INTERstate only INTRAstate.  They are so powerful in this that when Lake Texhoma Hydro plant was built on the north side of the old river channel, the Texas/Oklahoma border, Oklahoma tried to impose their taxes.  The Texas electric companies were able to get Oklahoma to redraw the state line to include the power station in Texas.   This came to light again during the hurricanes recently.  Large scale blackouts in southeast Texas lasted far longer than in southwest Louisiana just a few miles away across the border.
I am not trying to shoot down anything. Just bringing up the point that as much as we dislike it. local politics can prevent more good programe than they can provide!

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