Once upon a time, Puget Sound Energy took out all of the trees along a busy Bellevue street so they could put up more power lines. It would accomplish nothing and no one wanted them, but they put them up any way. It was, they said, to help prevent more blackouts in the future. As I sit in a Starbucks, trying to avoid a cold, dark house that hasn't had power for five days at this point, I'm reminded of those hated powerlines, a monument to man's hubris and stubborness. The people at PSE, who put in those lines, and the people in the Bellevue City Council, who allowed those lines to go in, should remember them as well. We are not one's to forget slights, and I don't think people will be too happy to find firm confirmation that their enegy bills are nothing more than expensive lies.