For the love of money is the root of all evil. This is a phrase that's commonly known to most Americans, yet so many of us have lost our way. For some of us, we've decided that money supplants goodness, that money supplants community, and that power power associated with having money is so worthy and so valuable that it supersedes all of our other desires.

May 4th, 1976 — Under the cover of night, a rogue power company in Texas decided that enough was enough. They wanted better than a power grid that was poorly regulated and they wanted better. On this night, they successfully proved that they could connect to the wider gride across the United States by sending people from Vernon, Texas to Altus, Oklahoma. So yes, Texas could send power and be combined into the federal power grid. So what happened?