Texas energy from wind stupidity

The legislature of the State of Texas has mandated that all power produced in Texas 3% to 10% must be generated from renewable resource, such as wind. The power companies in an attempt to comply with this political correct, environmental friendly edict erected huge wind mill farms in West Texas. West Texas were the land is flat and the wind is strong. What the idiots in the state legislature failed to factor in was the cost of transmitting that energy from the wind farms to the population centers of Texas. The cost can be as much as $5.75 billion to construct the transmission lines needed. The power companies do not plan to absorb this mandated expense but plan to past that cost on to the rate payers. Meaning because of environmental wackos, political correctness, and spineless legislators, the cost of electricity in Texas will sky rocket. Now remember these bums in the state legislature told us the deregulation of electricity in Texas would bring down the cost of electric and that has not come true