America’s security rests on energy production, not conservation

In the early months of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, he told the American people that the United States was running out of oil and gas.
“I realize that many of you have not believed that we really have an energy problem,” he said in an Oval Office address in February 1977. “We must face the fact that the energy shortage is permanent.”
Carter gave another Oval Office pep talk in April. “Our nation’s economic and political independence is becoming increasingl