What Caused the Texas Freeze? | Man on the Street

What's up guys, this is Will Witt with PragerU. Today, we are at University of North Texas talking to people about the Texas freeze that happened earlier this year and wondering if people know why it happened. Let's do it. And guys, if you're watching this on YouTube, make sure that you subscribe to PragerU and you hit that bell button so you never miss a new video. Do you think that wind and solar energy here in Texas has been helpful for the state? Do you think it's hurt it or no effect? I'm sure it's helped it. I'm not too sure, but I feel like it should I think they're a good idea. I think it's good for the environment, especially on campus. I saw the windmills. It produces less pollution or no pollution. I'm not quite sure. Until you have to recycle them. Were you here for the Texas freeze that happened in February and all that? Yes. How was that for you? It was pretty tough. We didn't have power for about five days, so it was pretty cold. Yeah. Did you lose power? I lost power and your cat? Yeah. Oh, no. The cat died. No, it just got lost in the snow and I never found it again. So it probably died. It's in cat heaven. OK, don't worry about that. Do you know why that Texas freeze happened? I'm not quite sure. Texas, I think, didn't have like power from outside sources. It wasn't like connected with other states and other places that would have been able to get the power in and things like that. The government gave a lot of subsidies to wind and solar, paid for a lot of it. And because the snowstorm happened and the sun wasn't shining really and the wind wasn't blowing, it caused a lot of the reliance that might have been there with these renewable energies for the power grid to fail during that time. And there wasn't really a backup. Did you hear about that at all? No, I really haven't. Is that shocking to you? A little bit. The Texas government spent 19 billion dollars on funding this wind and solar energy in the state since 2006. Oh yeah, tax dollars always pay for something we don't need. So yeah, that's nothing new. That's basically all our tax dollars do. Basically. Yeah, that's true. We spend taxes on a lot of things. A lot of useless things. Yeah. Is it upsetting to you that your tax dollars go to something like that and then it fails at the moment of truth? Yeah, because I mean, our tax dollars go to like for roads and everything and they can't even fix the roads like as well. So like last week, somebody got a popped tire down the street because they don't fix it. So I wonder what they do with their tax money. I just think the power grid overall, at least from what I hear and what I've seen in the nation, is not what it should be. It's not up to par. In some ways, having these green energy without the best alternative makes it so that the whole power grid fails and people lose power when something like this happens. If you wanted to power the entire state of Texas with wind and solar energy, it would be like the size of Houston, Harris County, like that whole area would have to be dedicated to just that that energy source. And that's a pretty big piece of land. You know what I mean? Lots of that wind and solar energy, I mean, is actually fairly bad for the environment, like the wind turbines killing all the birds. I don't care for the birds. You don't care for birds? Oh, my goodness. So I guess cats eat birds. Why don't you care for birds? Because they're birds. They carry diseases. They carry diseases? Yeah. Like COVID? Well, I don't know about that. Well, that's bats, not birds, I guess. It also takes a lot of fossil fuels to get that renewable energy, mining it and for solar panels and shipping the big wind turbines, everything. It's a big deal. Yeah. And that's where fossil fuel really does do the best thing because it's tried and true. I think we should move more to nuclear energy. It's more cleaner. It's actually cheaper as well. So that's something that we focus on. But I know like wind and solar isn't the best for Texas. It actually really did fail us during the winter storm. You know, the answer to the question before I even get to ask it. That's very, that's very good. Very impressive. Yeah, that's exactly what happened. All right, guys, thank you so much for watching. If you enjoyed this video, make sure you share with your friends. Comment your thoughts down below. Follow me and PragerU on social media. We're going to see in the next one. Peace. I feel like there's no win-win situations with trying to conserve energy or not. Did you say wind-wind? Is that a pun? No. What's up, guys? Thank you so much for watching this video. PragerU is a 501c3 organization. Help us keep our videos free by making a tax-deductible donation today. I'd really appreciate your support.