Exactly - instead of complaining about the outages, they'd be complaining about their power bills.

There's something very very nice about being in a house, even a rental. Not that the house is built to conserve energy - it's from 1953 and isn't insulated too well, and the heater heats the front rooms reasonably well, but leaves the back rooms cold in winter and hot in summer. We've got a space heater with a timer on it that we set to run for 2 hours just as we're going to bed. :) (And microwaveable heating pads for the cats to keep them off of US.)