[UCANSEE2]

Except if the power has gone out the stores can’t run their registers. So no form of money is going to accomplish much.

Power is out. We go into a store and tell the manager we both want to buy a case of water.

I offer him my bank card.

You offer him $50 cash.

Who will walk out with the case of water ?

[discostu]

Nobody. Power is out, the door is locked, the manager ain’t talking to anybody.