re: #256 Anymouse 🌹

Carter, as an engineer, understood the need for long-range planning, I believe. Small corrections done early can lead to huge payoffs in the future. But he failed in communicating that message successfully to the American industry and public. Reagan just stuck a fork in it. Similarly, Al Gore’s repeated warnings about global warming have only been accepted by an alarming minority of the population, because the energy industry and the Republican Party have succeeded in drowning out Gore with waves of bullshit.

And US car makers seem hell-bent on repeating the same mistakes they made decades ago, when gas was cheap and seemingly in infinite supply. They concentrated on gas-guzzlers and were unprepared for the inevitable “gas crisis” which allowed more fuel-efficient foreign makes to get a foothold in the USA.