It’s not very funny. Especially if you live in the Metropolitan Washington, DC area. But, here’s the “joke” that I cracked last week. (This post was written on 4 August 2012.) Dominion Power and Pepco are thrilled at the recent events. India proved to the world that these two (Dominion and Pepco) were not the worst utility companies in the world. After all, they only blacked out one region of the US with a million or so residents. India blacked out 18 states and 680 million people.