Conservatives blame proposal It wasn't just Carlson who blamed the proposal. Texas Governor Greg Abbott also directed his ire at the failure in the state’s independent energy grid- frozen wind turbines. “This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America,” Abbott said to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday. “Our wind and our solar got shut down, and they were collectively more than 10 percent of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis. ... It just shows that fossil fuel is necessary.”