[Sherman Logan]

I’m so positively ancient that I remember when one of Jimmy Carter’s big answers to the impending shortage of oil was to increase federal funding for research on how to extract oil from shale. It ended the way you would expect: it went nowhere. But some decades later, private oil companies did find a way to more economically extract oil from shale—and environmentalists promptly made it public enemy #1.

Carter tried to develop oil shale, not shale oil.

Oil shale is a type of rock. Shale oil is more or less ordinary petroleum, just trapped in rock.

[hadaclueonce]

and Iowa loves them some Ethanol from Corn! Thanks Jimmy!
they need to build a Jimmy Carter statute taller than their mountain of Corn.