Get yours before they're rationed.

The tension, the brawls, the near-riots. The unbelievable waits. The shock and outrage that we might have to delay or curtail our plans because energy, once so cheap and ubiquitous, was suddenly expensive and hard to find.

That’s the Battery Crisis. And it happens in too many homes after Christmas.

It just feels downright un-American to be denied the enjoyment of our bountiful gifts just because we’ve already blazed through all the batteries in the house. Fortunately, there’s something you can do about it that doesn’t involve bombing anyone, siphoning battery power from your neighbor’s transistor radio, or making a black-market deal with that shifty creep that everybody says has “connections”.

You can be prepared for the next battery embargo with this Panasonic Eneloop Battery Kit. While the other suckers are waiting in line, you’ll be sitting comfortably at home with your four-battery charger, eight rechargeable AA batteries, two rechargeable AAAs, and four “spacers” that can turn a pair of AAs into a pair of Cs or Ds.

While tempers flare down at the battery pump, you’ll be playing Head-to-Head Football and making shadow puppets with your amply powered flashlight. If Jimmy Carter was smart, he’d have one of these kits sent to every voter in America.

More importantly, you’re smart enough to keep the battery fuel flowing even during the worst crisis. Maybe you can even be that that shifty creep that everybody says has “connections”.