And good morning, and good morning, Bill Handel here.

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Texas, I've said this before, is a weird state.

It's probably one of the most independent states that exist in the union.

When I talk about independent, there is a deep down, almost DNA-wired philosophy that

Texans do not want overseeing by the federal government.

They're about as states' rights as you can get, we do not want the feds telling us anything,

which is why Texas, as the pandemic was rolling out and the numbers were falling and are falling, Texas, the first state says

masks off. We are bailing out of the mandate or the recommendations of the federal government

because we are our own people. Same thing with their electric grid.

Electric, and when you talk about grids grids are connected from state to state

here in California for example

we're connected to the Pacific Northwest

as well as states adjacent

east to California

so when a given location needs more power, let's say there's a drought going on,

electricity goes crazy, it can draw power from other parts of the grid, from other parts of the system.

Texas, and that involves federal oversight because it's going across state lines.

Texas said, no, we're not interested in that. We don't want federal oversight. So you know what Texas

does? It creates its own system that is not connected to others. So when the system goes down or parts of it are out of commission,

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