undergrounding lines, investin in the smart grid. right now we lose $20 billion at least per year when ther are power outages. we have technolo that's built on a 19th century platform. and we didn't get to be one of the most advanced countries in the worldy thinking small. we need to bring the othos that we brought to the highway system and commit money over decades to getting this fixed. tracy is absolutely right. >> i don't know, john. should we put this in a new energy policy? >> there is no doubt about it. we have no energy policy, so we don't know how things like a carbon tax fit into what we're trying to do. we have no long-term grid policy. what christian is saying is correct. ask a politician what's the grid going to look like when it's 2050? they have zero ideas. so when we have things, we patch things back together. we have got to fix this grid and we've got it get to a smart grid with a dc -- >> you want to do all this because of one storm? >> you have the audacity so call this an inconvenience! the people in staten island