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We’re powerless in the face of the alternative-energy lobby
I have seen the future and I don’t like it.
I’m talking about alternative energy. I’ve spent the past four days looking for it.
Early Sunday morning, a tree took out a power line across from my house. Ever since, I’ve been trying to find an alternative to the energy that flowed so reliably from my electric outlets for so many years.
I called JCP&L to report my outage. I got an answering machine. The next morning, another answering machine called back to say my power had been restored. It hadn’t. That answering machine gave me a number to call, just in case I still didn’t have power. I called and got another answering machine.
In the midst of all this, I had to recharge my cell phone. I plugged it into my car’s 12-volt outlet. The car battery died. (Mulshine, The Star-Ledger)
