To the Journal editor:

Fellow Yoopers, as we see more and more power lines cutting across country, bleeding our juice deeper and deeper into a national grid has it occurred to anybody that we are becoming ever more dependent and likely to be cut off if, for any reason you can imagine, problems occur elsewhere in the state? In the nation?

… and we would be cut off indefinitely?

What should we do? Buy emergency generators and a big gas tank? Or hook them up to natural gas?

Suppose you and your neighborhood were cut off for 10 days or so – then what?

Wouldn’t it make sense to maintain local existing power stations ready to provide the services we used to get from Reddy Kilowatt? U.P. Power? Marquette Board of Light and Power? Escanaba power? With big heaps of coal standing by? Or, second best, make conversions to pipeline gas?

An independent Upper Peninsula would be a reasonable compromise. Now would be a good time to prepare, before it happens …

Jack Parker

Baltic