He was the marketer who posed as an expert, on everything from boat winterization to vinyl records, for whatever news sources would talk to him as a way to promote a book.

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Gov. David Dewhurst said the problem appeared be inadequate winterization and that the trouble centered on two new coal-fired plants owned by Luminant ( a subsidiary of Energy Future Holdings, formerly TXU) which suffered a broken pipe and a frozen pipe.

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