Jimmy Carter everybody

There is and has been great debate over wether Carter was or wasn’t a good president. Many say he was unfairly judged- a man facing world problems that would have made any human seem ill equipped to handle. We can go back and forth- wether one believes Carter was or wasn’t a bad president- he was voted out after one term and never re-elected, and it’s almost unarguable he’s done more good out of office than in office- although comparing 4 years to the rest of his life seems unfair. That said- it’s largely irrelevant to the point- that as a politician he sacrificed his personal assets to better and more transparently serve the nation. I wonder if Carter would have shown his taxes publicly? He certainly never tried to charge the state an exorbitant bill to let dignitaries your his peanut farm. But then again- the Bushes and Cheney’s and others didn’t severe their ties to their business interests in office and it’s not like we waged a war using PMC’s they owned or anything like that....

I'm consistently amazed at your unwavering ability to speak truth to the willfully ignorant. I honestly don't know how you keep at it.

He was president during an oil crisis at a time when fuel efficiency was a cruel joke. Gas stations were literally running out of gas and they had to try something. Let's also not forget that he put solar panels on the roof of the White House and Reagan tore them down.

True on the oil crisis. Any sources on the Reagan thing?

It could be argued that the Carter administration could have better handled the second oil crisis. Food for thought though- the first crisis occurred under Nixon and was a result of his and previous administrations foreign policies. The second crisis occurred in an economy which was still trying to adapt to a floating dollar and where previous administrations had cut down domestic oil production and reserves. Carter wasn’t responsible for the secondary factors which contributed to the second crash, and if one remembers- he also had nothing to do with and could t likely have prevented the Iraq Iran war which primarily caused the second crisis. The “odd even” systems and other methods of rationing predated Carter to the Nixon administration.

https://forgottenhistoryblog.com/the-white-house-sported-solar-panels-until-reagan-removed-them-in-1986/