No apologies required. Carter was a good president. He put solar panels and a wood burning stove in the White House. Reagan took them out. It's amazing to me that Reagan did that since both of them had the same information. Okay, the North Slope was discovered around then, but they must have known it had a limited capacity. Talk about not being able to see more than five minutes into the future. Let's get out there, use it up as fast as possible, build that better mouse trap, all against a backdrop of the CIA warning about peak oil in the 70's; they even used oil as a weapon against the SU (Richard Heinberg; The Party's Over). The morning sun really got in their eyes... --- On Tue, 10/21/08, Veronica Caley <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Apologies re post on Carter. I sent it before I read Andy's. Veronica