Some time in the 1980's in Virginia.
Family built a home of the future, they erected wind mills and used solar power. They had a deep well and big septic tank.
They were self sufficient with a pellet stove for heat and other ways to go green.
One day they noticed the power company running lines from a just put up poll to their home.
They were told that there is a law that all occupied homes have access to power.
OK, no problem until they received a $1,250 bill for the pole and the lines run that did not connect up to anything.
Then they find they have to pay a service charge every month just to keep the non-used electicity used ready to vamp up at a later date.
We have become a country that punishes those who are resourcefull enough to find a way not to pay into big industry, So much for living in a cabin on a lake way into the woods.
SHHHHH whats that noise, oh no it is the power company putting in poles we have had no need for in the last 45 years.