I don’t know what Kristoff’s personal situation was, but being as he’s an MSM propagandist, he’s simply writing what he thinks will inflame the the proles. He’s telling them that those who had generators to help them through their difficulty had them because they had some unfair advantage. Hell, Obama gave them a phone...why not a generator like the rich pigs (who caused global warming to begin with) do.
Sounds like it's a 'Rat problem.