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Beto O'Rourke: “Whatever they spend, and I’ve seen estimates that it’s one to three percent of their operating costs for these gas…”

On the recordFebruary 1, 2022
Whatever they spend, and I’ve seen estimates that it’s one to three percent of their operating costs for these gas supply companies, it’s a hell of a lot less expensive than losing a life or more than 700 lives, or the more than $100 billion it has cost the state of Texas so far, or the tens of billions of dollars in insurance claims because, as you mentioned earlier, when it froze, the pipes froze as well, and then they later burst, and it created damage all across the state of Texas.
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Beto O'Rourke
Democratic · Texas
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msnbc.com

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O'Rourke discusses the costs of not winterizing the gas supply in Texas and the consequences of the February freeze.

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