Okay so after making my previous post I came across this.

WTF? Is everything to friggin retarded and greedy they can't see how stupid they are being? This sort of thing makes me believe that politicians aren't worth the air they breathe. Reasons: first they are so stupid that we happily keep on going along with the capacity we have without building new (preferably renewable sources, but even conventional would work for a while...until we run out conventional energy sources). Second they promote consumerism to get the economy going. And they get pissy when the lights go out. You notice how nobody cared when California went dark? Yah because politicians don't live there. When it comes down to it, everything that went dark in the "largest U.S. blackout" was for the most part inconsequential to the economy. So yah go ahead and blame one little power plant because you didn't get to live in air conditioned splendor for one day. Oh and the whole thing about making a super-grid? We isolated them for a reason, forcing it back into a super grid would be even worse then the days of regulation. Instead of a government protected monopoly (regulation is that by default) you would now have socialized power companies. What keeps you from "liberating" power plants and the grid like every communist nation would?