Frozen windmills are only a very minor factor in the Texas blackouts that have come about due to the polar vortex, a fact that was well publicized on Tuesday, but that didn’t stop Tucker Carlson from doubling down on his false and misleading claims that incorrectly blame those windmills freezing for the blackouts.
“So Texas — big, durable, well-run place generally — is still kind of a disaster tonight. A lot of people without power. The Texas Public Utility Commission says the state had very little margin of error, it turns out, in its energy grid. Yeah. Turns out to be absolutely right.