So it looks like a copy of Barack Obama's inauguration speech has been leaked.
Here's an excerpt...
"Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny. Our excessive dependence on OPEC has already taken a tremendous toll on our economy and our people. It's a cause of the increased inflation and unemployment that we now face. This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation.
The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them."
Now for the truth...
What you just read is not an excerpt from a leaked version of Obama's inauguration speech. It's an excerpt from a speech made by President Jimmy Carter on July 15, 1979.
My friends, here we are almost three decades later, and we're just as reliant upon oil as the day Jimmy Carter spoke those words.
You see, four years after President Carter took office, many enjoyed mocking his failed energy policies and conservation attempts while The Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan rushed to rip solar panels off the roof of the White House.
It was a turning point and a very sad day, indeed.
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Now I'm not saying all of President Carter's energy initiatives made sense. After all, he did champion oil shale and coal as ways to provide the nation with energy security. And if you look at the water, climate change and depletion issues associated with both oil shale and coal production, you'll see that these energy resources do not provide an ounce of energy security...but just prolong the inevitable, while destroying even more of our natural capital.
However, rallying the nation today to support a new energy infrastructure heavily weighted in renewable energy, efficiency and conservation cannot be a sound bite in the history books the way Jimmy Carter's energy plan was. We do not have that luxury today. If we don't get it right this time, we can officially chalk ourselves up as a second-rate nation, loyal only to the dwindling fossil fuel resources that crippled us to begin with.
Of course, we also have to be realistic about the difficult road ahead.
This transition to a new, cleaner energy economy is not going to be quick, and it's not going to be easy. But we must remain optimistic. Because, as Albert Einstein once said, "In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
The opportunity that we have today is to build a future that embraces clean energy, social justice, and the triple bottom line. It is an opportunity that will enable better living conditions for the global community while creating new wealth for those who invest in local communities, renewable energy and organic food markets. And my friends, this is an opportunity that will not likely repeat itself if we don't act on it now.
We stand at the threshold of a new way of life and a new generation of wealth.
Let's not blow it!
Jeff
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I understand it is "cheek" to pronounce oil, coal, nuclear, the "old" standards by which we make our electricity and our wealth bad. To give Obama any credit for launching this wonderful new energy and to claim that Carter had anything to do with trying to get the USA to switch to clean energy is just folly. First of all let me state the facts: 1. Nuclear is the best way to produce power followed by geothermal, gas, and then clean coal. Wind is a joke, ethenol a pure joke and a killer of thousands of starving people around the world and very energy and water wasteful, not to mention the poor gas economy with ethenol.
We have over 300 years of coal that could be converted to oil, gas, etc. Off our coasts and inland we have more oil then ALL of Saudi, Iran, and Mexico when the oil was first discovered. It is estimated we have almost a trillion barrels of recoverable oil in our shale deposits alone let alone oil deposits in Alaska, Florida, etc. We have 300 years of natural gas in the New York, Pennsylvania deposit soon to be tapped unless the savior decides to cancel the contracts or gives the deposits to the UN like he is planning to do with all of our off shore minerals with the signing of the LOST treaty. No Jeff, you are wrong in all accounts. Now, do I feel we should start to develope clean energy? Yes, but in a rational way not the way the illegal soon to be president wants to shove it down our throats at a cost we cannot afford.
I say develope nuclear and geothermal first while drilling for oil to lessen our dependance on our enemys. Then use some of the profits to develope solar and wind. I see T.Boone soon forgot his wind farm because he was not getting a massive jolt of cash from Pelosi and the other commies currently running the government.
No America can do anything she sets her mind to but it has to be done in a rational way and Obama, Gore, Reed, Pelosi, etc are total wack jobs. Let the real people do it and it will get done right.
Oh, by the way Jeff, gobal warming is NOT occurring, according to the real scientists at the UN global conference.
Have a great Christmas and rest assured the oceans are NOT rising.