Attempting to deflect mounting public anger, Prime Minister Dbeibeh took to the stage during a cabinet meeting on 18th July to publicly lash out at the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL). Except for a brief, deceptive period of relative grid stability over the past two years—which led many, apparently including the Prime Minister, to believe the crisis had been solved—the grid’s fragile architecture has repeatedly failed. This systemic dysfunction has inevitably led Libyans to draw bitter comparisons with GECOL’s operational history under the former Gaddafi regime. In a clear attempt to neutralize the fallout, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Mohamed Bin Ghalboun received Sheikh Al-Dardir on Tuesday, 4th August. Compounding this structural waste is a near-total breakdown in bill collection, as the vast majority of citizens and state entities simply do not pay their bills.