Carter was right on energy all along

Capital Times ^ | 2-8-06 | Bill Berry

[SJackson]

"With the exception of preventing war, this is the greatest challenge our country will face during our lifetimes."

Just what Jimmy accomplished on the energy front escapes me. As to war, though the conflict has earlier roots, it's fair to say Jimmy was Commander in Chief in the first major battle, and blinked.

[Triggerhippie]

Missing the BARF warning?

[BenLurkin]

Not only -- that his effort to avoid the war that would have re-secured the embassy in Tehran doomed us to the current global roiling of terror.

[Cicero]

What I chiefly remember about Jimmuh's response to the energy crisis is lining up at the gas pump every other day, depending on your license plate number.

That was a GREAT plan for solving the energy crisis!

[Rakkasan1]

don't forget to wear your sweater!

[jazusamo]

You give him too much credit. He didn't even realize it was the first battle. I still don't think he realizes it.

[freekitty]

I remember the gas lines when Jimma was President. That is not an accomplishment. I am also not sure what he accomplished with energy.

[SJackson]

Turn down the thermostat and wear a sweater.

Wonder how much oil we'd save if we banned heaters and air conditioning in cars.

[Always Right]

Missing the BARF warning?

Well considering the article is titled "Carter was right...", it would be redundant.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Carter called on Americans to contribute to the solution at a basic level. "We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. Only by saving energy can we maintain our standard of living and keep our people at work," he said.

When Reagan helped unleash the American genius, oil and gas were discovered all over the world and energy prices plummetted.

Resources expanded.

Clinton had the luxury of $10 a barrel oil.

The Bush economy is much broader and hearty than that of the 1990s and at $40-$70 a barrel oil.

Carter is a small man with a small mind.

Reagan was a mountain of heart, hope and can do!!

[pipecorp]

carter has been wrong on EVERYTHING.

[Servant of the 9]

Nonsense.

We have a perfectly workable energy plan for the next 400 years.

Demand is slowly driving prices up, so that our economy can adjust to the costs without recession.
Prices are already high enough to make the Athabasca Tar Sands profitable. In another few years they will be high enough to support Oil Shale and Coal Gassification. At that point we will have a stable domestic energy supply good for 400 years at the current rates of growth.

The change in our balance of payments from the end of imported oil we will see a stupendous economic boom.

So9

[frankiep]

One of the stupidest articles I have ever read concerning this issue.

They may be a response to an insider's knowledge that the spigot is, indeed, drying up.

sigh. Any sane person should easily be able to recognize that the President did not say these things because of the oil spigot "drying up". Any sane person should be able to recognize that he probably said this because most of the world's oil is produced in countries overflowing with insane, goat humping, death cultists, and that continuing deal with them to secure such a vital source of energy is akin to suicide and slavery. Of course, I wouldn't expect a leftist "journalist" to be sane or rational and be able to see this.

[Always Right]

I remember the gas lines when Jimma was President. That is not an accomplishment. I am also not sure what he accomplished with energy.

Oh don't forget schools, businesses, and homes turning their thermostats to under 68 so everyone had to wear sweaters all the time.

[GeorgeW23225]

Next time. PLEASE include a "BARF ALERT"!!

[popdonnelly]

Very hard to find something Carter is right about. Was he right about the deal he made with the Haitian military, that would have allowed them to stay in power? Was he right about his nuclear deal that he negotiated with the North Koreans, and which they promptly violated? And his estimation of Chavez and Hamas hardly has to be talked about.

[Farmer Dean]

At this point in our history,I am not willing to consider that Carter was right about ANYTHING.If history teaches us anything,it is the man was beyond inept and possibly deliberately worked against the best interests of the country.I look forward to hearing his eulogy.

[MNJohnnie]

What a complete and utter ignorant fool this author is. Guess no one pointed out to this loser that Canada has the world largest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia. The USA itself has lots of oil. The problem is NOT a lack of oil, it is that a LOT of the oil is too expensive to be economically extracted and marketed. It is not the addiction to oil that is the problem, the problem is we are addicted to CHEAP Middle East oil. This loser doesn't seem to realize that all his fantasies of "renewable energy" are simply economically unfeasible. They simply cannot be made to work as economically or as efficiently as source of energy as oil

The other problem this moron has is the economic change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. We did NOT one day suddenly decide to be an oil based economy. We will not suddenly one day magically quit needing oil. The solution is multifaceted and will take time. NOT, as this clown thinks simply a matter of issuing the appropriate bureaucratic decrees.

[dead]

Carter was right about there being a malaise during his presidency.

[backhoe]

Besides Cubans in Angola & Yemen, the Soviets in Afghanistan, 23% interest rates, gas lines and shortages, and a host of other maladies, I remember Wee Jimmy ( like a real President, only smaller... ) for this:

Desert One