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Who Said This?

Posted by: Mike's America @ 9:02 am in Uncategorized | 0 views

Hint: The year was 1979*

What you see too often in Washington and elsewhere around the country is a system of government that seems incapable of action. You see a Congress twisted and pulled in every direction by hundreds of well financed and powerful special interests. You see every extreme position defended to the last vote, almost to the last breath by one unyielding group or another.
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I am tonight setting a clear goal for the energy policy of the United States. Beginning this moment, this Nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977 — never. From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation. The generation-long growth in our dependence on foreign oil will be stopped dead in its tracks right now and then reversed as we move through the 1980’s, for I am tonight setting the further goal of cutting our dependence on foreign oil by one-half by the end of the next decade — a saving of over 4 1/2 million barrels of imported oil per day.

That’s a mighty strong promise to make… How’d that work out?

*No fair Googling.

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Just A Grunt

Easy. If it is 1979 it must be Jimmy Carter. Yeah that worked out real well. He was full of hope and change too.

June 26th, 2008 at 9:40 am

If it was Carter, and it’s a bold statement whoever said it, why did he impose the windfall profit’s tax in 1980? And Jimmy did set the wheels in motion to deregulate oil. Anyway, goals are one thing, I want to wake up tomorrow 3 inches taller, you must accompany your goals with what your actions will be. So where’s the rest of that statement?

June 26th, 2008 at 10:10 am

SoCal Chris

Do you think Carter is choking on his words and would now say he “misspoke” when he said this? Ha!

June 26th, 2008 at 11:05 am

Aye Chihuahua

Yes, Jimmuh Cartuh.

June 26th, 2008 at 11:06 am

BarbaraS

His reasoning was not that we drill our own oil. It was that we consumed less. Therefore a ban on domestic drilling. Threfore, a law was passed that we freeze in winter and burn up in summer thereby using less fuel. I don’t call that an improvement. It was a failure just like ALL of his other policies. It is irratating to see this jackass throwing his weight around all over the world just as if he had any creds to back them up. The worst president in the history of America. But I will say that he would lose that title if Obama wins in November

June 26th, 2008 at 11:14 am

Dreadnought

There is the joker side of me that wants Obama to win (since we have no good candidates anyway), just so that I can see the faces of people in a few years after realizing that they voted in a Marxist. That would be hilarious.

Less hilarious would be dismantling the crap that he did in office. You know how government programs are – once created they are impossible to un-create. That’s the only this that is stopping me from voting for Obama in order to see the people embrace conservatism in 2012 and 2016.

June 26th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

SpideyTerry

“*No fair Googling.”

Damn. Now, I’ll never know.

June 26th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

Marvin

Barack Obama.

But he retracted the statement the next day.

June 26th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

Mike's America

Dreadnought: The idea that the voters would learn if Obama were elected and made a mess of things is faulty. Jimmy Carter, who did speak the words in this post in his infamous “malaise” speech made a mess of things and we are still cleaning it up today. The damage was severe, especially so with the mess Carter left over Iran. The entire current war on terror can be traced back to the failure to confront Islamic radicalism when it first reared it’s ugly head. We had the chance to stand by our ally, the Shah and instead we allowed the mullahs to take over.

I don’t think we can afford another Carter in the White House.

June 26th, 2008 at 9:04 pm

Thomnj

Isn’t it just downright scary that people of this ilk populate so much of our government? The statement above is akin to the one made so many years ago by a one-time head of the US Patent Office who stated something to the effect that ‘there was nothing left to invent’. Tlak about a lack of SIMPLE foresight – and I mean that which can easily be envisioned from the facts at hand. For Carter to say we would never use more foreign oil but only our own while at the same time restricting energy development (he killed nuclear, too) and ignoring that our country had no history of halting any and all growth was incredibly myopic.