Original sentence: (The term "nuclear excursion" is commonly used to describe a nuclear criticality accident, perhaps in this case - given the reference to the California coast -- taking place at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant).Before the Jaunt's supposed invention in 1987, the planet's air was polluted with coal smoke, gasoline was rationed to the point where people could only drive two times a week, thousands of people in America alone had frozen to death the previous winter due to a lack of heating oil, and a large portion of the California coast had been rendered uninhabitable for "at least sixty years" due to a "nuclear excursion".Bester's concept of the "jaunte" - a term first coined in the aforementioned novel, published in Galaxy magazine in 1956 - was the instantaneous movement of one's physical body by a sheer effort of the mind only.Exxon (now ExxonMobil), along with most petroleum corporations, become water purification corporations after a supposed oil crash in the early 21st century.Jaunting was discovered on Callisto when Charles Fort Jaunte accidentally set himself on fire and teleported to the nearest fire extinguisher.The premise of the work is loosely taken from Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, which is mentioned by name.The story references both Hubbert peak theory and the water crisis, as well as general concerns about air pollution and nuclear energy