Responding to Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s warning that the province will stop transmitting electricity across the border, North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis on Tuesday told the Independent’s Eric Garcia, that if Ford means he’s “cutting off transmission to the United States, you better figure out what to do with those surplus, electrons are drawing down your base load.”
Tillis did not warn that the electrons could then escape into Canadian waterways and mutate regular eels into electric eels but he may as well have given the level of understanding he demonstrated.