March 8, Bruce Bullock and Bob Lawson, business professors at SMU Dallas Cox School of Business, for a piece advocating that free market action — not more regulation — is the path forward to repair and best position the Texas energy grid to meet future challenges following the February freeze. Published in the Dallas Morning News with the heading The answer to the Texas grid problem is more free markets, not less: http://bit.ly/30kWPbU
The lights are back on and the heat restored in Texas. Pundits, politicians, the media and many so-called experts are playing the blame game in everything from Tweets to tense statements before legislative hearings.
Unfortunately, very few of the accounts paint an accurate picture of the role free markets have played in meeting Texas’ growing need for affordable power that its citizens and businesses thrive on while emitting some of the lowest emissions in the country.
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