Reply #33: The Carter Presidency was a turning point for the United States. [View All]

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The perils of over-reliance on foreign oil were recognized. The fragility of the Earth's ecosystem, especially the Earth's climate was revealed. The need for sustainable and renewable energy resources was most apparent in the Carter years. The Texas Petroleum Cartel and their accomplices, the Saudi royal family, saw Carter and his good stewardship of the Earth policies for what they were: bad for the oil business. OPEC, which at that time WAS a Saudi lapdog, flexed its petrol muscles and created the oil shortage, which reverberated throughout the country, in a calculated and successful attempt to thwart the Carter policies. The so-called gasoline shortage was a man-made event and part of the "perfect political storm" of events designed to weaken the Carter reelection bid and strengthen that of his rival, Ronnie "mourning in America" Raygun. As I should have said, the Carter Presidency should have been a turning point for our country, instead we were tricked into voodoo economics and the beginning of the end of adequate corporate oversight.