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Just over thirty years ago, then President Jimmy Carter spoke directly to the nation in the hope of combating the energy crisis and reducing Americas dependence on Foreign oil in the so called “Malaise” Speech. So my question is,

What would 2009 look like if the policies Jimmy Carter had set out had been implemented? Or similar policies?

Examples of policies outlined in the speech include, reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil by setting the goal of by the end of the 1980s to save over four and a half million barrels of imported oil per day, setting import quotas for oil, massive investment in alternative sources of fuel such as “from coal, from oil shale, from plant products for gasohol, from unconventional gas, from the sun”, the creation of an energy security corporation, a solar bank aiming to have 20% of America’s energy from the sun by 2000 and a windfall profits tax to pay for some of it etc.

Now I don’t know if this is ASB or a possible What if? However if such policies and the others Carter envisioned did become a reality, how would America look in 2009, compared to the current 2009?

Thanks.
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