The OP on the Green New Deal not being a new idea reminded me of when Jimmy Carter...

[brush]

put solar cells on the WH roof which Reagan immediately had torn out when he took office.

It made me think of how far along towards technological and socio/economic development the country would have moved towards if repugs hadn't stolen the WH for Nixon, then Reagan/Daddy Bush, W Bush and now the orange pustule that is trump. All those regressive administrations put the brakes on so much it's almost incalculable.

[KPN]

1. Great post.

[Dave in VA]

2. The Love of Money

and no thought to the future is what will destroy civilization if not humans altogether.

[MyOwnPeace]

3. And that's why......

IQ45 believes in "clean coal." Chances are we're gonna' see him open up a new chain of "TRUMP STABLES" - somebody's gonna' need to fix those buggies and shoe the horses, right?

[Autumn]

4. I was pissed when the Pukes did away with the select committee on climate change in 2010.

Such stupidity.

[Me.]

5. Can You Say James Watt?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. i was doing ok until you mentioned that

"a woman, two jews and a cripple"

[George II]

8. How about the Reagan cabinet secretary (forget which one) who decided that ketchup should be....

....considered a "vegetable" in school lunches.

[Me.]

9. This

!

[TSheehan]

10. I thought that was the Ghastly Gipper himself.

[George II]

11. Actually it wasn't a cabinet member him/herself, it was a decision by Reagan's USDA....

....and they didn't specifically mention ketchup.

News reporters ridiculed the decision by equating what the USDA really implied "ketchup" and the story took off. NY Times op-ed writer/satirist Russell Baker (I loved that guy) seemed to the most fun with it.

Long, interesting entry about this on wikipedia here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_as_a_vegetable

[George II]

7. Reagan and the republicans also ridiculed Carter's idea of underground petroleum stockpiles....

....yet any time anyone today wants to release some of that oil for any reason (generally to control skyrocketing prices) the REPUBLICANS scream and holler that "they're too important and strategic to tap into" (not exact quote)

It's a case of the republicans want their cake and eat it too.

[WhiteTara]

12. I know for a fact that *co was jammed down

our throats, kicking and screaming. Think of what could have happened had we elected McGovern, Gore, Kerry, Clinton in addition to our democratic presidents? We would be in a more peaceful, plentiful world. Not a utopia, but not the hellscape we live in today.

[allgood33]

13. Jimmy Carter was way out in front on alternative energy during his term in office.

I still have copies of his Executive environmental studies and their recommendations. They covered the spectrum of solar, wind, and water.