I never saw, on one of these programs, make reference to foreign made transformers, so I suppose these were on ‘news shows’ and not science programs.
from what I did pick up from these programs, was the fact that if we are hit with the BIG ONE....as the planet was in the 1850s we will be in a world of hurt, not just from damage to our power transmission systems but it could fry all of our satellites, rendering us, for a time, without our beloved cell phones, satellite TV, and internet.....
what do you know of these?
I find the whole thing interesting...
http://www.futurescience.com/emp.html
quote.... It would likely be months or years before the electrical grid could be repaired because of the destruction of large numbers of transformers in the electric power grid that are no longer made in the United States.
http://www.empactamerica.org/faq.php
quote...These massive transformers are no longer made in the United States and must be imported from overseas
http://www.traviskelly.com/bus.html
quote....There is a pending bill in the House to provide funding for EM shielding of those transformers (which, like most everything else nowadays, are no longer made in U.S., and can’t be quickly replaced), which would solve the problem.
On and on…….. They all follow the same line as the stuff that they have in the shows. That is because they are just repeating what they heard in the shows.