Oh come on. They did EMT tests on cars that were both running and stopped. Some of the cars that were running the engine died. They had to be restarted, the horrors! The cars that were not running had no damage whats so ever.
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Your logic is lacking. If there is no power and gas cannot be pumped to fuel the cars, it would not matter. I suggest you do some research and brush up on your critical thinking.
I am not going to go back and forth with you on this.
The study subjected vehicles to simulated EMP attacks both while shut off and while running, and it found that none of the vehicles suffered any ill effects if the attack occurred while the engine was off. When the attack occurred while the vehicles were running, some of them shut off, while others suffered other effects like erroneously blinking dash lights.
Although some of the engines did die when subjected to an EMP, each of the passenger cars tested by the EMP Commission did start back up.
The study finding suggested that 90 percent of the cars on the road in 2004 would suffer no ill effects at all from an EMP, while 10 percent would either stall out or suffer some other ill effect that would require driver intervention. That number has no doubt gone up in the intervening decade since there are more cars on the road today that make use of delicate electronics, but none of the vehicles tested by the EMP commission suffered permanent damage.
Dude there are tens of thousands if not millions of “EMP” strikes every day.... It’s called lightning.
The worst power impact from an EMP would be at the local distribution level. That means some transformers would need new fuses or have to be replaced. No big deal.
Not trying to be snide here, but the refineries might be down for awhile, but I’ve seen people get gas without electricity, you’ve just got to jury rig a hand pump to get it out of the underground tanks.
Not saying there wouldn’t be problems once the tanks were dry, but if people don’t go sight seeing, might have enough to get by...if they are careful.