How the Power Grid Works 1. Electricity, in thousands of megawatts, is generated at Regional Power Plants.
2. Campaign contributions, in millions of dollars, are forwarded from energy company executives to lawmakers.
3. Executives meet secretly with Dick Cheney, dictate plan to deregulate energy industry.
4. Executives of deregulated market cut work force, skip maintenance, manipulate system they designed to rob state and county governments.
5. Blackouts are delivered from local substations directly to consumers.
APOLOGY Due to last week’s blackout, a story about the tremendous success of deregulation of the power industry never ran. We will try to run it again in the near future.
ODDS AND ENDSSanta Orders Elves To Practice Safe SexHas condoms, educational literature distributed to all workshop employees.
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