Spain’s Blackout Shows the Regime Can’t Be Bothered With Affordable, Reliable Power

There’s a lot of conflicting information about the immediate cause of the recent mega-blackouts in Spain and Portugal. The governments in those countries claim the causes are “still unclear” after the largest blackouts in history. Given the rather spotty record of truth-telling by national governments, I suspect the causes of the blackouts are clear to those who are in a position to know.

What we on the outside do know, though, is that Spain and Portugal, like most European states, have spent ye...