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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:52:49 -0500
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On 7/17/2024 10:42 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:47:12 -0600, John Savard
> <quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:15:08 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
>> Nicoll) wrote:
>>
>>> Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds
>>>
>>> Celebrate the coldest summer of the rest of your life with some
>>> frosty SF and fantasy novels!
>>>
>>> https://reactormag.com/five-sff-books-featuring-frigid-icy-worlds/
>>
>> I could comment that your posting is itself a dystopian SF story,
>> about a world where giant oil companies have managed to control the
>> political system and hypnotize the populace so as to prevent any
>> effective response to global warming...
>>
>> if it weren't for the fact that it seems like calling that scenario
>> "fiction" has already proven to be over-optimistic.
> 
> One of the two theories I have seen on why the Texas electrical system
> died again (if that actually happened; Bing seems to know nothing
> about it, being fascinated by the event in 2021) is, indeed, that the
> State of Texas, having funds that could have been used to fix the
> problem, chose instead to shovel it into the pockets of the Oil
> Industry. Typical Republican behavior.
....

I do not know of any Texas state funds being used for the State Crude 
Oil and Natural Gas industry.  On the contrary, they are the number one 
tax payer in the state, the state universities are 100% funded by oil 
and gas revenues, google Texas Permanent University Fund.

Please specify the exact amount of funds being paid from the State of 
Texas to the Crude Oil and Natural Gas industries.

Lynn