From: "Geo" 

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
news:Ja5PCtgaXqhY092yn{at}attglobal.net...

> What you really need is a reliable electricity supply. Why don't "you"
(the
> USA) have one? The supply in this country isn't the best around, but we
> certainly don't see the problems you do. For example, my gas heating unit
> will (safety) cut out if there is as little as 1/10 second interruption to
> the supply. It has done so only twice in the last 18 months.

That's a really good question. In this country the electric people are
among the best paid workers and management folks around and as far as I can
tell all they work at doing is keeping things going from day to day or
figuring out how to create a shortage situation so they can charge more for
the same product.

Geo.

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