User blog comment:Ichigostop/Enel's Weakness/@comment-1595565-20110309215302/@comment-3279487-20110310181839

It's not "rubber can't travel through electricity" but "electricity can't travel through rubber". You can't touch Enel because his body will travel through your body which is a conductor and you'll simple go through him. The gold makes no difference, it's not because of it that Luffy defeat Enel, rather it was an hindrance to Luffy. The gold become useful to destabilize the raigo, the ogon rifle would have been succesful even without the gold (maybe the only thing that it improved was kinetic energy since the gold is really heavy). But, in my opinion, the problem is that ANY insulator would nullify Enel's power (rather let you touch him) but I guess in a manga you can't pretend much.