Wow! I am a republican and I am in favor of conservation. People look at me as if I am nuts when I tell them fuel isn't going to get cheaper. The price will continue to stair step up and up.
MQ, I know many people didn't think Carter was a great president. I did and still do. This speech you posted from is some of what made me think so. I didn't vote for him but admire him because he did tell the American public the way it was. Not what they wanted to hear.

This post should be considered as one that new people to this site should read. Mainly because of the fact a President was saying just this thing years ago. To bad the partisian shit had to come up again. It was going so well until the ignorant post about the republicans.
My oldest brother is a liberal democrat. When I began to talk about peakoil. He told me I was crazy. Started all this bullshit talk about political issues. Then one day. I found this speech. I asked him what he thought about Carter. He had great respect for Carter. Then I presented quotes from this speech. Telling him Carter knew and tried to get the word out.
My brother no longer doubts peak oil and the ramifications.

Here is another great speech by President Carter:
Carter: The Crisis of Confidence July 15, 1979
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MP3 audio link of speech: link

A great opportunity wasted.

Wow - just listened to that MP3. Incredible... that was pretty much the answer. What went wrong? Why didn't it pan out like that?

Greed.

He failed to be reelected and fell to defeat by Ronald Reagan and the Republican Reaganomics. Reagan cut taxes and increased deficit spending that spurred the economy and got us out of double digit interest rates, but it also moved us from the largest creditor to the largest debtor nation and just put off paying the piper until a later date. He rescinded Carter's executive orders and removed the solar panels from the White House roof. This speech was also called the Malaise Speech and is largely credited with his defeat by Reagan.

Thanks MQ. This is good stuff. I was just a little kid in 1979. Going to listen to the MP3 now.

Its funny how many thought Carter to be weak but he actually showed great strength to tell the people what they needed to hear.

Most conservatives have considered Jimmy Carter to be the “sorriest president our nation has ever endured, but his noteworthy administration's achievements included a comprehensive energy program conducted by a new Department of Energy; deregulation in energy, transportation, communications, and finance; major educational programs under a new Department of Education; and major environmental protection legislation, including the Alaska Lands Act which doubled the size of the National Park system.

Jimmy Carter has been by far the most active ex-president in recent American history and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. He is universally known throughout the world as one of America's greatest statesmen. Post peak-oil history may show him to be one of our greatest Presidents with a vision far ahead of his time, or more appropriately, right on time. He had a world view well worth considering, albeit it was, and still is, anathema to most Americans, about 51% by last vote.

It seems to me that economists will be regarded as the nazis in the future. They are primarily the ones who encouraged exploitation and competition all in the name of a theory. We had sensible people telling us to diversify our energy portfolio for nearly 50 years now. Even back in the fifties, there was a sizable number of people who knew there were limits to growth and more importantly now, natural resources are finite.

Pull your head out MQ. I'm part of the 51% you refer too. Most Conservatives? I don't think so. Maybe the conservatives who are most vocal. Oh ya that doesn’t follow along with your agenda.

Omar, to have the luxury of history on your side and criticize people of the past is rather hypocritical. Nazi’s! Come on. You show your stupidity when you make such a comparison. If the Nazi’s were in control. This web site would not exist. The “Nazi’sâ€

Economists are the same as Ingsoc. They look at the objective facts and objective reality and twist it so it suits their purposes. And when they bring us so close to the edge (I do believe that most of the ill economic policies will be repealed a few years after the peak, once it is shown that captalism is running its wheels in the mud) willingly and against all the facts, I think that is as close to Nazism as the modern world can get.

My paragraph wasn't aimed at you, ML. Among those 51% are Democrats and Independents, too. But I would wager that most of the 51% are conservatives. When given a choice between reelecting Carter and choosing Reagan in 1981, most conservatives chose Reagan. Did you vote for Reagan or Carter? Most conservatives and many liberals consider Carter to have been a very poor President. In some circles he is considered a traitor to his country.

Carter emphasized ecology, conservation and enviromental protection, efficiency in government, and the removal of racial barriers. He was a multi-lateralist and put great credence in diplomacy. Carter was determined to free the nation from dependency on foreign oil by encouraging alternate energy sources and deregulating domestic oil pricing. Since Bush embraces none of these concepts, I think it is fair to say that most Americans find these concepts anathema having voted for an imperialist administration devoted to unilateralism, canceling treaties, violating International law, drilling ANWR, and rolling back environmental legislation achievements to the detriment of us all. We can do a poll in the open forum and find out if most conservatives think Carter was the sorriest President they ever had to endure.

[quote]The Nazi’s would take a conspiracy nut like MQ and lock him up or torture him. The people who are out spoken would get the “cutâ€

Sorry MQ

I got started reading you book. You really seem to have it all figured out.

I guess I wrote here what I was thinking while I’ve been reading your book. Conspiracy nut, Anti-establishment, anti-republican, etc.

I should have kept this to myself until I post the review. I apologize.

Sounds like an early review right here! LOL! Anti-republican? You get that from my book? Wait until you see how I trash Roosevelt during WWII.

MQ