Here's an article for those of you who hate Libertarians.

Power industry faulted in blackout report
Investigators warn of repeat without regulations
The Associated Press
Updated: 5:36 p.m. ET April 05, 2004

WASHINGTON - The power industry’s disregard of its rules intended to ensure the reliable flow of electricity contributed significantly to last summer’s blackout in eight states and Canada, investigators said Monday in their final report.
...
The power industry has an array of voluntary requirements aimed at preventing blackouts. They are administered by the private North American Reliability Council, which lacks the ability to hand down penalties.

Many reliability rules were ignored and the council could not do much about it, investigators have found.

How about going public? Do you think the public doesn't care about these things? Raise a frickin' stink! The only reason these people didn't is because they wanted to foist responsibility off on the government. Which doesn't accept it either.

Note: I just went back and ran spellcheck. It wanted to replace frickin' with Frisian. The budding Frisian Nationalist movement might object to that.