This is the dumbest ENERGY CHIEF that has ever opened his mouth! A .22 rifle? Really My son is 13 and target shoots one of those and it's not the dilema this uneducated person says it is! I am just appauled at the stupidity in this country! It's just another excuse to get control over the guns!

Obama's energy chief sees rifles as 'terrorist threat'

Warns 'large portions of our grid' could be taken down by attacker with a .22 rifle!

(Bloomberg) An attack on the power grid by terrorists — even ones armed with relatively simple weapons — is among the greatest threats to the reliability of the nation’s power system, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said.

“There are ways that a very few number of actors with very rudimentary equipment could take down large portions of our grid,” FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff said today at a Bloomberg Government breakfast in Washington. “I don’t think we have the level of physical security we need.”

 

The security of the power-network components such transformers “is an equal if not greater issue” than cybersecurity, Wellinghoff said.

 

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