History's Greatest Monster

Thom Hartmann makes a good case that Jimmy Carter could have spared America from it's current energy crisis, if only he'd been reelected. You can read the original Carter speech here, where he proposed a new energy plan that might have averted so much pain. This is also a great speech:

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 1980s, for I am tonight setting the further goal of cutting our dependence on foreign oil by one-half by the end of the next decade -- a saving of over 4-1/2 million barrels of imported oil per day.

I'm feeling John Lennon's "Imagine" come over me...