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Submitted by john wertz on 2022-01-18 05:00:14

Pros

• Incumbent - 50th Texas Railroad Commissioner (11/16); Chairman this term
• Free-market conservative businessman
• Texas Representative, appointed by governor, to the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission.
• One of first Republicans elected to the Texas House in 1966
• Served as President of the Texas Conservative Coalition while in the House
• created a private sector task force to address the (negative) -$37/bbl crude price up to $32/bbl, w/in a month
• Against preferential treatment of subsidizing wind and solar
• Correctly asserted that An obsessive focus on reaching the unattainable goal of carbon-zero caused decades of poor policy decisions that prioritized and subsidized unreliable energy sources (wind and solar)
• Against subsidies of any kind for energy sources. let the free market decide.
• Huge proponent of private property rights

Cons

• Was his administraion adequately prepared for the freeze, could he have done a better job to prepare?