Don’t confuse some of Texas’s shortcomings with faults in the free market system for energy. This is my only issue in these conversations. Not everything the Texas market does is bad and they were not the only grid impacted by the weather storm but certainly the most severe because of the lack of interconnects.

>Except then they’d be subject to regulations. And we can’t have that now can we?

Why so salty? There are n>0 things the federal government does that I disagree with. On a subject I know nothing about why would I assume that Texas is wrong to avoid it's rules?

I’d be curious how many people in Texas have died from power loss compared with the rest of the country combined over the last few years.

Congress could remove Texas's exemptions from those rules at any time. It's got nothing to do with whether and how much the Texas grid connects with others.