The large power transformers, that control most the power flowing through the grid, are failing at an alarming rate, twice the rate as in 2001, and ten times the rate as in 1980.
Those attacks, in which a group of jihadists tied to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb seized control over a natural gas facility and took dozens of hostages, are indeed alarming.
The alarming thing for us in the train cars is that not only do we have little control over this stalemate but it is hard to imagine the two sides coming together to create a sensible solution between now and the new year.