Reply #2: Sure, I remember reading about a bunch of that. [View All]

[Trillo]

I also remember a generalized feeling at roughly the same generalized time that the end of oil was drawing near, and reading about many technologies that had they been adopted, may have helped. Someone had concepts for a nuclear powered car(!), as well as another one that would fly. Solar heating and cooling. Hydrogen was supposed to save us, or so I read many times.

I don't specifically remember there being a categorical exclusion granted to big oil-drilling companies, instead, it seemed that there was some kind of push in environmentalism, at least for little people, such as learning to recycle the cars oil instead of pouring it down a drain where it would find its way into water ways and eventually the ocean. Lots of exhaust controls getting placed on vehicles, yada yada. Turning down the thermostat on AC (which we didn't have anyway). Recycle those aluminum cans, recycle recycle recycle!

Another curious thing that happened in the 1970s, at least in Southern California, were the beginnings of the real-estate bubble. That may have been as early as 73-75, placing that timeline outside the Carter years (I think).

"pursuit of happiness?" No. Not by a long shot. Just a bunch of authoritarians telling us little folks what to do, how to do it, and simultaneously telling us how deficient we were, all while they apparently winked at their buddies in high places and no doubt had lots of laughs taking their gains to the (now) Too Big To Fail banks.