Gee, Jimmy Carter's energy policy sure would be handy right about now.

[KyuzoGator]

Just sayin'.

Every passing year proves Carter more and more right. He will forever be remembered as the, "Why didn't we listen to him?" president.

[unblock]

1. definitely way ahead of his time.

politically, anyway.

as an ecological and energy management matter, he was right on time; it's the banana republicans who are behind the times.

[etherealtruth]

2. Jimmy Carter

That man is as close as I come to having a hero :loveya:

Had we listened to him then (even a little) we wouldn't be where we are now ... r/t to energy ... come to think of it, had people listened we wouldn't have ended up with Reagan and the Republican "revolution"

OK, I am biased, I love Jimmy Carter :loveya:

[Buck Turgidson]

4. Amen! Brothers and Sisters.

Remember how horrible the MSM was to him when the rescue attempt failed.

[lapfog_1]

3. I saw James Woolsey on CNN last night

former CIA director.

He drives a Prius and has a home that is nearly energy self sufficient.

He says that we are in a resource war and will be from now on... and the eventual competitor is China, not fundies in the ME.

Interesting to note that both Cheney and Shrubya also own some of the most energy self sufficient "ranches" which can be made from existing technology without giving up modern life.

[Old and In the Way]

6. You right about the state-of-the art ranches.

I wonder why they don't showcase and push the technology? Maybe because they are owned by Big Oil?

[madrchsod]

9. he is exactly right on the china-us

resource war and there are many more people waking up to this fact. i was flamed for saying the middle east is not our problem ,our problem is what we do for our country and our relating with canada and countries south of our borders.

[AX10]

11. China is taking up a ton of oil and other resources.

[Old and In the Way]

5. Remember when Carter made the Department of Energy a cabinet

level department? And remember how one of Bush/Reagan's 1st acts was demoting it?

[madrchsod]

7. carter had some good ideas and intentions

but looking back some of them were not the best for the environment. he was and is one of the more intelligent presidents we have ever had. why have the most intelligent presidents of the 1900`s all been democrats?

[KyuzoGator]

8. Must be an enormous coincidence!

Seriously...Lincoln, TR and Ike are the only GOP presidents that weren't a complete failure.

[madrchsod]

10. going back to the 1800`s

yup the federalists never have gone away have they? those three were liberal/ populist republicans.

[Inland]

12. At least Dem presidents did SOMETHING. Compare Bush

whose contribution to energy policy was for us to buy more from the Middle East (open the spigots, twist twist) and to dig up and burn whatever was under public lands. Like nobody ever thought of that before.

[KyuzoGator]

13. Kick for Jimmy!

[KyuzoGator]

17. Another kick nt.

[Zorra]

14. The election of Reagan was the tipping point for the world.

Reagan was nothing but a greedy, egotistical, simple old fool, and his legacy will, ultimately, be large scale planetary catastrophe.

Jimmy Carter was and is a wise man and leader, and he will always be revered in history books for his uncanny practical foresight.

[yellowdoggess]

15. Ditto! been saying that for years

and really thought Kerry would issue a Kennedyesque challenge during the debates or somewhere...calling upon all of us to become independent of mid East oil in 10 years. Was disappointed that never happened, among OTHER things....

[sutz12]

16. Notice it's the same guy giving us the finger now....

He did it to Jimmy by delaying the prisoner release in 1980. Now he's comparing penis size with Dubya.

[vssmith]

18. Didnt Carter start the Synfuels Corporation that was later

done in by Reagan?