While NERC, FERC, DOE, MISO, and every other electricity-related acronym debate the cause of the August 14 power blackout and whether or not some poor Joe literally fell asleep at the switch with his phone turned off, I'm going to cut through the acrimony and confusion and give you the real reason. Make sure you're sitting down. Here it comes...Blame it on Y2K. That's right, Y2K. Basically, the blackout was all part of a giant conspiracy that had its genesis in the Y2K scare. Remember all of those "experts" doing their best Chicken Little impressions and boldly proclaiming the collapse of the energy sector when the clocks passed midnight on Dec. 31, 1999? Well, over the past three years, those discredited experts have conducted an underground sabotage campaign to salvage their battered egos, culminating in the cascading blackout of August 14.
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