This is CBS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor.

Gen Iraq is a company that makes a product that is not much understood. It's about electricity. It's about

having electricity that you need when the power lines go down that there's a brown

out or in my case I'm in a forest. Building power lines under

limbs is an entertainment for the local electricity company. So if you need power

all the time and we do increasingly in our homes you go to a generator

Don't take my word for it. We welcome Robert Rice and author about energy his most recent book is a question of power

electricity and the wealth of nations you can find his reporting at

Robert brice dot substat.com Robert a very good evening to you.

It turns out we're both fans of Generac.

It's a box looks like a large freezer.

You put it outside of your house, you connect it to a power source,

natural gas or propane and within five seconds of the power

going off in the house and everybody's saying oh the generac fires up and runs your house.

Mine will run for weeks out of the power source I have outside.

I'm told by Generac.

You don't need to touch it.

They service it remote.

What's your experience so far? Good evening to you, Robert.

Well, thank you, John. Well, my experience so far, and I live in Austin, Texas, in fact, my wife and

I, we have a house right in the middle of town and you know during winter storm

Urey as many millions of other Texans we lost power and we lost power for two days

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