Liam Denning, Columnist

Texas’ Red-Blooded Energy Market Is on Ice

The state’s libertarian streak runs into the hard realities of oil, gas and power.

February 18, 2021 at 12:00 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
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Texas is no country for cold men. Or women. Or children.

That’s part of a Tuesday morning Facebook post by Tim Boyd, mayor of the small town of Colarado City in west Texas. Or rather, the ex-mayor; later the same day, after a backlash, he announced he had resigned.