Energy Crisis was Solved in 1979 and Reagan Stopped It

Energy Crisis addressed in 1979 but
RepubLieCons called it a "Crisis of Confidence" Speech July 15, 1979
In little more than two decades we've gone from a position of energy independence to one in which almost half the oil we use comes from foreign countries, at prices that are going through the roof. Our excessive dependence on OPEC has already taken a tremendous toll on our economy and our people. This is the direct cause of the long lines which have made millions of you spend aggravating hours waiting for gasoline. It's a cause of the increased inflation and unemployment that we now face. This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our Nation.

The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our Nation. These are facts and we simply must face them:

What I have to say to you now about energy is simple and vitally important.

Point one: 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,
We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I've warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility. It is a certain route to failure.

All the traditions of our past, all the lessons of our heritage, all the promises of our future point to another path, the path of common purpose and the restoration of American values. That path leads to true freedom for our Nation and ourselves. We can take the first steps down that path as we begin to solve our energy problem.

Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny.

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[HoGraz]

@hackit12 Obviously liberalism is considered "Elitist" these days cause the only people with NORMAL functioning brains recognize these patterns and can get past the bullying by the REAL elites who control everything and degrade everyone's life in order to soak up the resources. Funny how we had a liberal government for years and even all CONSERVATIVE politicians had to speak of democracy.Now we have "Conservativism" which is code word for Fascism and "Socialism" which is code word for Conservati

[MsZeitgeist85]

He was right and because we didn't listen Peak Oil will PWN our asses.

[DRisLegend200919]

@BaldViking we get it canda mexico south america than saudi arabia

[DRisLegend200919]

carter was good man but a bad president

[JugheadObama]

you. are. an. idiot.

[browneyes4]

Energy independence in the U.S.A will come AFTER your sons and daughters

return to the U.S.A in body bags. Your country will change its ways when the

cost becomes too much to bear. hahaha! Die fuckers!

[jmjfanss]

@retrop75

Reagan did by the getting the government out of the way of our business, it seems you radical leftists don't care anymore except government.

[67nairb]

@TOPOFFMAN Chairman Mao Tse-tung murdered 70 million of his own people; more people than Hitler and Stalin murdered combined. Yet Mao's atrocities are hardly touched. To most Chinese, Mao is a God.

[67nairb]

@TOPOFFMAN He's a Marxist.

[67nairb]

@BaldViking What two countries as the OPEC countries combined?

[MrJohnnyrace]

Bullshit !! The American oil companies created the artificial shortage to raise prices.

[jeffthecoder]

@BaldViking it doesnt matter..i am 30 now..in 1999, gas was $1.25 a gallon (nearly double from 1979), milk was $1.09 a gallon, rent for a nice house was around $500, and UPS hired me as a teenager at $8.50 an hour..now, the prices of everything (except electronics) has tripled..UPS hires kids at $9.50 as general laborers today..the president, in 1979, warned the people that are now in their late 40's and up, and was told to fukk off..what have they done (they fukked us)?! we wll occupy u now HA!