Dear Editor,

As I was about to pen a letter in response to Mr David De Groot’s letter, “Government has considerably improved the electricity situation it inherited” (08.01.07), my area was hit by a blackout at 6:25 pm Having only a small UPS back-up and no private power plant, solar-power charged batteries or wind-powered generator, as the elites of our society possess – courtesy of the tax-payers, and straining my eyes in the dark to see the keyboard (I am not a touch typist), I had to shut down my computer at 6:32 pm to conserve the UPS battery and await the return of GPL power