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Millions of people are still without drinking water today, Sunday Texas, where parliamentarians reacted strongly to astronomical increase of the cost of electricity associated with the murder cold wave that hit her country.
Although 30,000 households still do not have electricity, crews have not yet repaired all power lines that collapsed due to snow and bad weather. According to the site Energy cutWith power outages, many Texans face another problem: exorbitant bills up to $ 16,000.
Texas is in fact the only state whose electrical grid operates individually and the electricity market is fully deregulated. Many households have contracts whose monthly price varies according to the demand that has increased dramatically with the cold snap.
“These bills, these prohibitive costs, must be paid by the state of Texas and not by individual consumers who are not responsible for this disaster,” he said today. Sylvester Turner, the mayor of Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States, on the NBC television network.
“Everything that happened this week was predictable and could have been prevented,” he said, adding that it had long been clear that the Texas independent network was vulnerable to extreme weather conditions.
“We have a responsibility to protect Texans from soaring electricity bills due to severe winter weather and power outages,” the Texas Governor said Saturday. Greg abbott.
President Joe biden Sign a new Texas emergency declaration that releases funds that could help pay residents’ electricity bills, according to the Republican deputy Michael Macaulay.
“This is the current plan, with federal help, so that we can help homeowners,” he told CNN.
Meanwhile, Texas federal and local authorities have requested conducting research for this energy crisis.
The Democratic Senator Tina smith, for its part, called for the launch of a federal investigation into the exponential jump in prices natural gas during the polar cold snap across the country, in Texas but also in the Midwest.
Aside from the electricity problem, residents of many Texas cities stayed on Sunday no drinking water. In Houston, the instruction to citizens to drink only boiling water can be valid until Monday.
This extreme weather event, which wreaked havoc in the southern and central United States this week, cost him at least his life 70 persons, according to US media.
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