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Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
14. Jimmy Carter called the energy crisis in 1977 the moral equivalent of war..
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 11:01 PM
Aug 2012

In 1980 Ronald Reagan came in and reversed all the positive things toward energy independence that Carter had initiated.. It has been a downward slide ever since with the occasional random jink upwards but the trends have been negative on the average ever since then.

"The future's uncertain and the end is always near" - Roadhouse Blues

I think our political problems are worse than the technical ones, there has been a propaganda campaign in this country for the last thirty years that would turn Goebbels or Molotov green with envy and a great many people have been convinced that up is down and black is white, I have a number of them in my own extended family and they are utterly unreachable.





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