Why is Texas suffering power blackouts during the winter freeze?

The oil- and gas-rich state is experiencing what officials call a total failure' of its electricity infrastructure

Millions of people in Texas have spent days in below-freezing temperatures without power in what officials have called a total failure" of the state's electricity infrastructure. How did oil- and gas-rich Texas - the biggest producer of energy in the US - get here?

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