system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
How can electricity nearly move at the speed of light if electrons can’t move at such speeds without an enormous amount of energy?
gpt
Waves in the sea move, but the water mostly just goes up and down. Sound travels as pressure variations in air, but the air from a speaker's lungs does not reach your ears. Quickly moving a rope you are holding makes a wave travel along it, but the rope stays in your hands. Like that. The water, air and rope are the medium of transmission in each case, not the signal.

The signal moves through the electric field at the speed light, but the electrons themselves are really just part of the medium.