The infrastructure that supplies electricity to the United States can be very fragile and when it is not working everything slows to a crawl. Recently in the New England a major power line was damaged and power is no longer being provided for train service. This is causing major problems for the people that rely on the commuter rail to get them to and from work. The big question comes down to who is responsible for the outage. You can bet the electrical company is at fault seeing how they failed to fix a backup line for over six months.

The electrical outage has a domino effect on the economy considering that people are not able to get into work. Those that have alternate transportation are saddled with sitting in hours of traffic on roads that are now bottlenecked even more. In the same sense a computers power grid is one of the most important things. Without good clean power the system will slow to a crawl and often times crash. This instability will not only be frustrating but could damage other expensive components.