EMP won’t take out the electrical grid,
decommissioning power plants will.
I see it as a two edge sword, what the EMP doesn’t get the EPA will.
“decommissioning power plants will.”
Now, you’re talking. THAT is a major issue with me. As we add need and decrease power plants we can find ourselves in a nasty situation where it becomes harder and harder to maintain the power grid load levels and keep them balanced. At some point it becomes impossible to keep them balanced and every time they turn on a grid section it goes down because of overload, making it impossible to keep any section up at any time.
I believe Obama and his liberal Luddite ilk are after that exact effect.
Both will take out the power grid, EMP is just faster.
An emerging issue is that generators have purposively made excess (standby) generating capacity go away. It's all about cost control and all that green-eyeshade stuff that minimized the number of boats on the Titanic, for example. It made sense because the Titanic was unsinkable anyway, so how can you defend burdening the shareholders -- of whom J.P. Morgan was the leader -- with a frivolous expenditure? You're going to tell Morgan he has to spend money on excess lifeboat capacity? Good luck with that!