Blame Ronald Reagan for the energy crisis and our multiple oil wars? I do!

[txlibdem]

Among his many brilliant quotes: “trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." One little known fact about Ronald Reagan is that he made many important or political decisions only after consulting his personal psychic.

Read the material and then vote whether to indict the former actor and anti-Medicare scare monger, "It will turn us into a Socialist nation."

Reagan Redux: The Gipper helped save the ozone layer but almost single-handedly ruined Americas leadership in clean energy
By Joe Romm on Feb 6, 2011 at 5:05 pm

As for energy, Reagan almost single-handedly killed America’s global leadership in renewable energy (see “Who got us in this energy mess? Start with Ronald Reagan“).

President Reagan is the “culprit in chief” when it comes to the “current energy debacle” explained Richard Cohen in his 2008 piece “Wish Upon a Pump.” I could not agree more.

...snip

Yet today, (President) Carter’s speech reads as prescient. Most of his dire predictions (“It is a problem we will not solve in the next few years, and it is likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century”) have generally come true, although not quite as soon or as calamitously as he had warned. The pity of it all is that in American politics, being right is beside the point.

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/02/06/207471/reagan-ozone-layer-clean-energy

Further reading:
http://climateprogress.org/2008/07/08/who-got-us-in-this-energy-mess-start-with-ronald-reagan/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702215.html - wish upon a pump

Psychic in the White House:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Quigley

[doublethink]

1. I just voted yes without reading your post ...

I just genuinely hated that guy back then .... still do .... okay now I'll go read the post. :rofl:

[madrchsod]

2. the law of unintended consequences.. carter doctrine and the reagan corollary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Doctrine

the saudi`s were never going to allow the usa to stop buying their oil.

[txlibdem]

3. Carter Tried To Stop Bush's Energy Disasters - 28 Years Ago

Published on Tuesday, May 3, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0503-22.htm

I guess that makes it 31 years ago now...

[gtar100]

4. I watched the marginalization of the environmental movement under Reagan

It's unforgivable what he and his cohorts did. But heck, it was my generation that swallowed his bullshit. They all just wanted to party and get rich.