Well, you see, there's been a sort of technological advancement. Power can be generated through the air. No copper wires. Jump in your car, and it picks up the power generated by your friendly power company it needs to lift off through antennae sticking out the roof. It takes off, flies you back to Pennsylvania where you grew up, and you sit down to Thanksgiving dinner with Mom and Dad and your sisters and brothers.
Mom cooks with an oven having the same antennae sticking up.
The turkey don't cook. Unless your spare emergency battery works. And that's not the worst of it. It seems people are getting less active these days. No one has been able to high jump over seven feet in quite a few years.