Question - Who said it?
U.S. President's speech delivered to the entire nation:
“Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this nation…From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation.”
“Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this nation…From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation.”
“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.”
“We will protect our environment. But when this nation critically needs a refinery or a pipeline, we will build it.”
“You know, we can do it. We have the natural resources. We have more oil in our shale alone than several Saudi Arabia’s. We have more coal than any nation on earth.”
Sobering, Carter argued that Americans were living a lifestyle of worshipping “self-indulgence and consumption.”
Honest, He was then replaced by Ronald Reagan who, in his 1981 inaugural address, told Americans that “Government is not the solution, it’s the problem.”
Just words..., the U.S. is facing the same energy crisis of the 70's and hearing that, if we just build enough solar and wind farms we can solve the crisis.
“If history teaches anything,” said Reagan, “it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.”
History learn from it or become it - Haase
