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... pledging that the government would work to allow America to achieve energy independence in 10 years...every time new resources such as ANWR are proposed for drilling in this country, libs in congress start yapping that it will take ten years to develop the recources and therefore we should do nothing - had we started thirty years ago, or even ten years ago, we'd be in much better shape now - the crisis mentality of the 'rats, who fail to take any long-term action, is criminal.....

every time new resources such as ANWR are proposed for drilling in this country, libs in congress start yapping that it will take ten years to develop the recources and therefore we should do nothing - had we started thirty years ago, or even ten years ago, we'd be in much better shape now

How right you are!

had we started thirty years ago, ..., we'd be in much better shape now - the crisis mentality of the 'rats, who fail to take any long-term action, is criminal.....

"I am tonight setting a clear goal for the energy policy of the United States. Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977 -- never. From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation. The generation-long growth in our dependence on foreign oil will be stopped dead in its tracks right now and then reversed as we move through the 1980s, for I am tonight setting the further goal of cutting our dependence on foreign oil by one-half by the end of the next decade ...

To give us energy security, I am asking for the most massive peacetime commitment of funds and resources in our nation's history to develop America's own alternative sources of fuel -- from coal, from oil shale, from plant products for gasohol, from unconventional gas, from the sun.

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You know we can do it. We have the natural resources. We have more oil in our shale alone than several Saudi Arabias. We have more coal than any nation on Earth. We have the world's highest level of technology. We have the most skilled work force, with innovative genius, and I firmly believe that we have the national will to win this war. ..."

- Jimmy Carter, July 15th, 1979