Bill O'Reilly here Friday, February 19th, 2021, you are listening to the O'Reilly update.

Is what's happening this week in America.

As you know, cold weather, snow, ice, all of that, causing chaos in many states, but most

particularly in Texas, at least 10 people have died.

The amount was more stuck in their homes as frigid temperatures descend on the lone star

state.

Thermometers in Houston, San Antonio, Austin, dipped to single digits for the first time

in years.

4.6 million people lost power and heat in Texas, forcing some to seek refuge in their

cars for warmth.

Now a major cause behind the Texas outage was frozen wind turbines.

Officials with the state's main energy supplier confirm about 50% of the entire wind operation

stopped generating energy because of the cold weather, causing blackouts for 90% of customers

in some places.

Wind generation ranks as the second largest source of energy in the entire state of Texas,

counting for 23% of the power supply.

Another source for the power outage was the region's diminished oil and gas output in

order to comply with new federal regulations.

Said Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who has ordered an investigation, quote, this shows how

the green new deal would be a deadly deal for the United States.

Fossil fuel is necessary.

We wish the people of Texas good fortune and we hope the temperatures moderate this weekend

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