by Stefan Stanford, All News Pipeline:

According to this February 11th story over at the Epoch Times (saved here at the Wayback Machine), electricity is among the most essential sources of America’s prosperity and productivity over many decades, though as they also report, it’s also our greatest vulnerability.

Reporting that the US has become so utterly dependent upon an uninterrupted supply of affordable electricity that a sudden and long time stop to it would instantly become an existential crisis for 100’s of millions of Americans, especially those who’ve never taken the time to consider what would happen to them should the grid go down, as that story warned, according to former CIA director James Woolsey, if America’s electric grid were to go down for an extended period, such as one year, “there are essentially two estimates on how many people would die from hunger, from starvation, from lack of water, and from social disruption