Reply #10: Jimmy Carter was the president at one turning point [View All]

Perhaps many are too young to remember...but he gave speeches about how we needed to lower our expectations, conserve, make do with less, fund alternative energies. He had a solar water heater installed on the WH roof, and established a cabinet-level Secretary of Energy...and so on. He had us on a sound track, 30 years ago when I was a teenager and wrapped up in the beauty of the science of it.

Reagan was elected and everything went out the window. No more Secretary of Energy, solar heater taken down and scrapped, everything turned to military power and influence over oil producing regions, and economic expansion at the cost of everything else. Needless to say, he did as a President what he said he would do as a candidate, and he was voted in fair and square. We are reaping now what was sown.