CME vs. Transformers

I have been thinking ( a dangerous thing at any time) about Transformers, the companies that make them and the industries that supply them.
If (God forbid) a major CME (coronal mass ejection) were to hit the earth and 80% of the large step-down transformer’s (found at power stations) and small (on your street post) were to melt down, the Specialist have claimed that it would take 2-10 years before the lights would come back on. No ELECTRICITY.

Reality Check.
OK it takes a full year, for a large transformer to be built, WHEN and if they have the parts that they require to build them. Most companies are on the JIT or Just In Time delivery system. Most industries are 100’s of mile’s away from the company that they supply. Most of them require trucks to deliver these parts. Older trucks might still work but they still need fuel, no power, no fuel. And all of the companies require ELECTRICITY to manufacture these parts.

Now we talk about PEOPLE, since the majority of the cars today are micro technologied, a big CME would wipe them out. The Los Angeles area could boast that they have the longest/largest parking lot in the world, especially if all cars died during rush hour. But back to the point, how far do you have to drive to get to work, how long would it take you to get to work by bicycle, and when you get there, would it be open.
How long can most people last without the food stores, gas-pumps, and the pharmacies’. How Many people that you know have a usable adult bike.
How many people have enough cash on hand to buy food/gas/medicines.
The only people that I know of that has a lot of cash at any time, are drug pushers, politicians, the extreme upper class and pimps and some preppers.

And last but not least, how many skilled people would be left after 2 month after a melt down. After the sanitary and water systems fail, how many SKILLED people would be left that were not affected by all diseases and maladies that would follow. All of the diseases that had been suppressed would once again appear and be rampant, Starvation, Cholera, Lyme Disease, West Nile, Malaria, TB, Typhoid, Smallpox, Plague (Bubonic, Pneumonic, Septicemic) any type of Flu and STD’s.

So would we be seeing FEMA work camps, to ensure that the right people survive to rebuild the industry? Would you be invited to live in one of the underground bases that the American Government developed, DUMB, or Deep Underground Military Bases, each able to contain 10 - 100 thousand people each.

The celestial scientist have claimed that we are due for a CME soon, maybe 12-21-12? Who knows when or how strong it will be. Will you be one of the survivors or an occupant of a mass grave.
One more thing, if it happens, how long would it be before the US of A would change to United States of North America.