“The Long and Winding Road” sounds right, but how about another metaphor: Nero fiddling while Rome burns.

At the risk of being called Johnny One-Note, I’ll say again that I was willing to let the new Administration get its feet under it before it started to run. The Bush Administration wasn’t interested in regulation of any kind. But by now, shouldn’t the new Administration at least be walking? Just like the FDA issue you have spoken on, this is really important stuff. If we don’t get reliability right, we’re screwed.

We have so many vulnerabilities in this country. The infrastructure is crumbling while at the same time our competitors in Asia are building advanced infrastructure at an amazing rate. We need to catch up, if we are to compete once again. Can we do that without a reliable generating and distribution system for utilities? No. No why does NERC seem to be strolling….sleep-walking…..through this critical effort?

I hope that people like you are heard and that we can build some (excuse the expression) fires under these folks. Maybe Nero is our guy, eh?

dj