Obama & Carter - more parallels:
We know about the Carter administration personnel that are Obama advisors - Brzezsinski, Malley, Anthony Lake. But Obama's "we can't drive our SUV's" comments echo Carter's "malaise" speech of 1979.
Obama:
"We can't drive our SUVs and, you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at all times, whether we're living in the desert or we're living in the tundra, and then just expect every other country is going to say OK, you know, you guys go ahead keep on using 25 percent of the world's energy, even though you only account for 3 percent of the population<, and we'll be fine,"
..... "We are also going to have to negotiate with other countries. China, India, in particular Brazil. They are growing so fast that they are consuming more and more energy and pretty soon, if their carbon footprint even approaches ours, we're goners."
Jimmy Carter: Remember him wearing a sweater, putting solar panels on the White House and turning down its thermostat to 68?
“And I’m asking you for your good and for your nation’s security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel”
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