
Originally Posted by
Moose1am
Carter was smarter than your average GOP stalwart supporter.
Carter was ahead of his time and trying to lead a the uneducated masses who refuse to give up their way of life.
Carter was supporting the Synfuels which would have used coal to make oil. Germany did that near the end of WWII. South African used synfuels to make coal into oil back in 1980.
It was the GOP President Reagan that killed the Synfuel Plants in Western KY. By not going with the synfuel plants we set ourselves up to be black mailed again and again by Iran and OPEC.
Today thanks to our lack of planning over the last 7.5 years we are still in the same situation.