If we had continued making progress at the rate we were…
“If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia today.”
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Continued past energy policies would have eliminated oil imports from Saudi Arabia.
In simple terms: Past policies could have ended oil dependence.
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- government planning
- energy markets
- environmental activism
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- What barriers exist to renewable adoption?
- How can we accelerate clean energy?
Policy shifts are hard to reverse.