(02-21-2021 07:33 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:What did Schumer say?
The New York Democrat said he hopes Texas "learned a lesson," attributing the significant energy issues to officials who have "ignored climate change."
"The bottom line is, Texas thought it could go it alone and built a system that ignored climate change," Schumer said while speaking in Manhattan, the New York Post reported.
"It was not what's called resilient, and now Texas is paying the price," he mocked. "I hope they learned a lesson."
Schumer went on to bash Texas officials for allegedly not considering the effects of climate change when constructing their energy systems.
"When we build power, when we build anything now, we have to take into account that climate change is real, or people will have to be caught the way the people in Texas were," Schumer said.
"When I wrote the [Hurricane] Sandy bill, $60 billion for New York, we made sure everything was resilient," he added. "When they built back the subways, built back this, built back that, they were going to be resistant to climate changes, and we have to do that."

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