Carter's 1977 Speech on the Energy Crises
- From: mg <mgkelson@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:18:14 -0600
The following is an excerpt from Carter's address to a joint session
of Congress. After the address, American automobile manufacturers
responded by building SUVs and Americans responded by buying them. In
our infinite wisdom we even provided tax incentives so that people
would buy more of them. That way the benefit would trickle down to
those who couldn't afford to buy them.
I remember years ago, a frustrated division superintendent at a steel
plant I worked for told me, "Somebody ought to build bleachers and
sell tickets, they'd make a fortune". It's too bad there's no way to
build bleachers to watch humanities folies. I'll bet most historians
don't have much of a sense of humor. If they did they'd spend all
their time laughing their ass off and never get any work done.
.. . .
"B. STRATEGY
1. The objectives of the National Energy Plan are:
a. In the short term, to reduce dependence on foreign oil and to limit
supply disruptions.
b. In the medium term, to weather the eventual decline in the
availability of world oil supplies caused by capacity limitations.
c. In the long term, to develop renewable and essentially
inexhaustible sources of energy for sustained economic growth,
2. The major strategies for reaching these objectives are:
a. Implementation of an effective conservation program for all sectors
of energy use so as to reduce the rate of demand growth to less than 2
percent, thereby helping to achieve both the short- and medium-term
goals.
b. The conversion of industry and utilities using oil and natural gas
to coal and other more abundant fuels to reduce imports and make
natural gas more widely available for household use, thereby helping
to achieve both the short- and medium-term goals.
c. A vigorous research and development program to provide renewable
and essentially inexhaustible resources to meet United States energy
needs in the next century, thereby helping to achieve the long-term
goal.
.. . .
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7373
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