Ierz In email, West calls Wasserman Schultz  vile,   despicable
Austin, Texas mdash; Texas  power grid manager was fired Wednesday amid growing calls for his ouster following February s deadly blackouts that left millions of people without electricity and heat for days in subfreezing temperatures.Bill Magness, CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, becomes the second senior official to depart in the wake of the one of the wors stanley italia t blackouts in U.S. history. The state s top utility regulator resigned Monday.  Magness was given a two-month termination notice by ERCOT s board in a meeting Wednesday night. The move came as the grid operator is now under investigation by the House Oversight Committee.                                           During this transition period, Bill will continue to serve as President and CEO and work with state leaders and regulators on potential re stanley becher forms to ERCOT,  the organization said in a statement.                February 25, 2021 file photo shows Bill Magness, president and CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas  ERCOT , testifying at a Committees on State Affairs and Energy Resources joint public hearing in Austin on factors that led to statewide electrical blackouts.                                                    stanley cups    Eric Gay / AP                                         Magness, who made more than $876,000 in salary and other compensation in 2019, was the target of much of the outrage over the blackouts that began Feb. 15 when a winter storm plunged temperatures into single digits acros Puqs Victory For The Proletariat
OIL PRICES AND DRIVING HABITS....So how much have Americans cut back on driving in the past few months   Here are a couple of data points.First, on the rig stanley mug ht, is the weekly amount of motor gasoline produced in stanley thermos mug  the United States as a percent of the amount produced in the same week last year.  If you sum up the first 18 weeks of the year, gasoline production in the United States is down about 0.7% compared to the same period last year.  This is a pretty rough measure of gasoline consumption, but still suggests that high pri stanley sverige ces have had only a fairly modest effect.Second, via ThinkProgress, is a USA Today chart taken from Federal Highway Administration data.  It only goes through February, but it s a more direct measure and suggests a reduction of about 5% in total miles driven.  This is nothing to sneeze at.  Sure, considering that gasoline prices have gone up about 50% since the beginning of last year, even 5% might not seem like much of a reduction.  But if you add in population growth, it means that per capita miles driven is down about 6% compared to last year.  If you then compare it to the 1.5% annual growth we ve been experiencing for the past decade, it means that per capita driving is down about 7-8% from its trendline.  That s the first time this has happened in a long time.Still, there s a caveat.  In Los Angeles, for example, driving is down and use of mass transit is up.  But will it stay up Not everyone who switches to biking, walking or carpooling will stick with

Ierz In email, West calls Wasserman Schultz  vile,   despicable
Austin, Texas mdash; Texas  power grid manager was fired Wednesday amid growing calls for his ouster following February s deadly blackouts that left millions of people without electricity and heat for days in subfreezing temperatures.Bill Magness, CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, becomes the second senior official to depart in the wake of the one of the wors stanley italia t blackouts in U.S. history. The state s top utility regulator resigned Monday.  Magness was given a two-month termination notice by ERCOT s board in a meeting Wednesday night. The move came as the grid operator is now under investigation by the House Oversight Committee.                                           During this transition period, Bill will continue to serve as President and CEO and work with state leaders and regulators on potential re stanley becher forms to ERCOT,  the organization said in a statement.                February 25, 2021 file photo shows Bill Magness, president and CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas  ERCOT , testifying at a Committees on State Affairs and Energy Resources joint public hearing in Austin on factors that led to statewide electrical blackouts.                                                    stanley cups    Eric Gay / AP                                         Magness, who made more than $876,000 in salary and other compensation in 2019, was the target of much of the outrage over the blackouts that began Feb. 15 when a winter storm plunged temperatures into single digits acros Puqs Victory For The Proletariat
OIL PRICES AND DRIVING HABITS....So how much have Americans cut back on driving in the past few months   Here are a couple of data points.First, on the rig stanley mug ht, is the weekly amount of motor gasoline produced in stanley thermos mug  the United States as a percent of the amount produced in the same week last year.  If you sum up the first 18 weeks of the year, gasoline production in the United States is down about 0.7% compared to the same period last year.  This is a pretty rough measure of gasoline consumption, but still suggests that high pri stanley sverige ces have had only a fairly modest effect.Second, via ThinkProgress, is a USA Today chart taken from Federal Highway Administration data.  It only goes through February, but it s a more direct measure and suggests a reduction of about 5% in total miles driven.  This is nothing to sneeze at.  Sure, considering that gasoline prices have gone up about 50% since the beginning of last year, even 5% might not seem like much of a reduction.  But if you add in population growth, it means that per capita miles driven is down about 6% compared to last year.  If you then compare it to the 1.5% annual growth we ve been experiencing for the past decade, it means that per capita driving is down about 7-8% from its trendline.  That s the first time this has happened in a long time.Still, there s a caveat.  In Los Angeles, for example, driving is down and use of mass transit is up.  But will it stay up Not everyone who switches to biking, walking or carpooling will stick with