> you can bet your sweet ass that I would be A. monitoring the wholesale price B. switching off my main breaker the moment the price went above $X. On that not

> you can bet your sweet ass that I would be A. monitoring the wholesale price B. switching off my main breaker the moment the price went above $X. On that note, a "smart" breaker that could do that monitoring for you and start cutting non-essential (and eventually "essential") circuits as prices exceed user-configured thresholds (perhaps integrated with a household UPS) could probably sell like gangbusters in places like Texas.