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Wall Street Journal + CenterPoint Energy = Hiding the Ball

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We've all seen magicians and the "hidden ball trick. The Wall Street Journal  hides the ball in this story about Houston's energy reliability. The Journal's  article about the crisis in Houston pertaining to CenterPoint Energy's latest power outages -- due to Hurricane Beryl -- hides the ball by not mentioning a key factor. As has become all too typical in the Journal's reporting recently , climate change is blamed for things that have little or nothing to do with climate as last month's story does.  This latest story says,  During the same period, CenterPoint documented 15 extreme weather events around Houston including hurricanes, ice storms and tornadoes. It took CenterPoint at least two days to restore power following six of the events, with outages lasting for more than four days after two major storms in 2021... “We’re going to be dealing with more of these storms, which means we either need to start burying more lines or hardening the system even m...