Posted on 02/01/2021 12:40:22 PM PST by KeyLargo
FLASHBACK – Jimmy Carter 1977: Set Winter Thermostat to 55 Degrees Overnight
As president, Jimmy Carter advised Americans to set their thermostats to 55 degrees overnight during the winter months to “waste less energy,” offering his guidance in a televised address to the nation on February 2, 1977, in the midst of a national natural gas shortage.
In laying out his proposed national energy policy, Carter did not call for reducing taxes on or regulation of the energy industry to incentivize increases in production. Instead, he prioritized “conservation.”
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In 1974 I turned 18 and got my first car. Just in time to wait on line for gas.
55 degrees at night can lead to hypothermia. Jimmy Carter was one of the worse presidents in American history. His prescriptions to solve problems were disasters. Amazing how the Democrats keep promoting these incompetents to run the country. Over and over again the country has to overcome these Democrat nitwits in the Oval Office.
My parents were also the good citizens to actually put the thermostat to 55 degrees at night. I had layers of blankets and a space heater by my bed to get up in the morning with. I could see my breath when I got up in the morning!
I had to get up really early too as I had a morning paper route. That's another thing you don't see today - kids delivering the morning paper. Now it's middle-aged divorced men driving in mini-vans.
Jimmy Carter: Rosalyn, I hate to spring this on you this way, but I’d like to introduce you all to my future wife and my next first lady. She was a widow, and, until recently, a maintainance worker here at Two Mile Island. Miss Violet Crawford.
Violet: Hi, everybody. As First Lady, I’d like to say I have nothing against nuclear power, honey. It’s the best thing that ever happened to me.
Can you imagine having to put up with having such a dingbat for a brother? Frankly, I don't know how Billy managed.
Jimmy Carter telling us to turn thermostats down to 55 at night
Dead tree media is rarely seen any longer on homeowners driveway.
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