Those gas lines were due to OPEC, how did OPEC come to be? Kissinger/Nixon.. Needed the Saudis to buy military from us, so with a huge increase in oil revenue, they were able to spend over a trillion dollars on

their military via the USA..

Carter constructed the agreement to free the hostages, his name in on the agreement, it was arrived at prior to Reagan being in office..

For the record, Carter also was the architect of the most successful ME peace agreement. Egypt dropped out of its attacks on Israel and remains so to this day..

do you recall the slump in employment also Under Reagan? over 10%... Do you remember he stole the SS fix to finance his failing economic policies??

Selective recall mean anything to you??


The world is full of unanswered questions...

When I read the history of the Carter years, it is like what I remember never happened. The odd-even long gas lines. Prices going up like crazy. America being disrespected by having our diplomats being held hostage by Iran. Then Reagan comes in and Iran lets our people go, gas prices come down, and 2 years into his Presidency the economy zooms. No wonder Reagan slaughter Mondale in 1984 and then Bush beat Dukakis. Dukakis sure was cute riding in a tank with his big boy tank helmet on. He looked like somebody's kid.

Those gas lines were due to OPEC, how did OPEC come to be? Kissinger/Nixon.. Needed the Saudis to buy military from us, so with a huge increase in oil revenue, they were able to spend over a trillion dollars on

their military via the USA..

Carter constructed the agreement to free the hostages, his name in on the agreement, it was arrived at prior to Reagan being in office..

For the record, Carter also was the architect of the most successful ME peace agreement. Egypt dropped out of its attacks on Israel and remains so to this day..

do you recall the slump in employment also Under Reagan? over 10%... Do you remember he stole the SS fix to finance his failing economic policies??

Selective recall mean anything to you??


The world is full of unanswered questions...

Well its certainnTrump does not..

In all candor, I would think having someone so confused over their own g****r would not lend trust in their ability to perform on the front line....The not knowing something not needed for our soldiers...

I also understand Trump is or has taken heat over this from the dems.. I say put them on the front line and see if they feel Comfortable in trusting someone so confused.. And no, I do not say this because they are t*********r but rather their “ head being messed up”... A true concern..

OPEC was merely doing what sovereign nations do. They acted in their best short term interests. As usual you are missing the fundamental problem. Not your fault. You are not trained to look for the deeper reasons of why things happen. That is my role. To help you along in you evolution away from surface answers.

Around 1970 or America stopped being able to produce 100 % of it's own oil. From then on we had to import. That put us at the mercy of world market forces. That OPEC would exploit that is no big surprise or crime. The crime was that our government and industry did not anticipate it or have any answers ready. To be sure it started before Carter. Nixon and Ford had no answers either.

However, Jimmy Carter's answers were destructive. He tried to manage demand by strangling it. Stagflation ensued.

" Carter constructed the agreement to free the hostages, his name in on the agreement, it was arrived at prior to Reagan being in office.. "

Way to go Mr. Peanut. Getting our hostages back only took 444 days. Now for the real explanation. Iran released our hostages because there was no more value to be gotten out of holding them. They had made their point. Reagan was an unknown to them. They had gotten all of the mileage from Carter that America could give them.

" For the record, Carter also was the architect of the most successful ME peace agreement. Egypt dropped out of its attacks on Israel and remains so to this day.. "

Egypt made the decision it was in their own best long term interests to get along. Besides new fissions in the Islamic World had opened up. Egypt went over to the American-Saudi Arabia side against Iran.

" do you recall the slump in employment also Under Reagan? over 10%.."

Unlike your worthless hero Obama, Reagan did what was necessary to fix things. You dare, you dare say this to me ? " Selective recall mean anything to you?? " WELL? Lets us explore YOUR SELECTIVE recall, shall we ? ? ? ???

You forget something with YOUR SELECTIVE memory. The overriding trouble Ronnie Raygun inherited from Jimmy Carter was Rampant Inflation. Why did you leave that one out ? ? Why why why ? Funny how you history revisionists always leave out inflation when you speak about the late 1970s.

Anyway the only way to wring that inflation out was with higher interest rates to cut the money supply. That was painful, very painful. That is where the 10 % unemployment came from. Once Reagan and Volcker fixed inflation, the economy boomed. Now try to shoot down that argument.

" The world is full of unanswered questions...". Like how America was stupid enough to choose leaders like Carter and Obama.

https://historicalreview.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/mirzadegan.pdf

NIXON’S FOLLY
THE WHITE HOUSE AND
THE 1970S OIL PRICE CRISIS
AMIN MIRZADEGAN
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“I will do everything I can to hold down the price of foreign oil. The American
people cannot aford to pay such prices, and I can assure you that we will not have to pay
them.”1
President Richard Nixon’s address from the White House about the national energy
crisis on January 19, 1974 called upon millions of Americans to have faith in their
president’s eforts to curtail the skyrocketing price of oil and end its ravaging of the American
consumer’s wallet. Just a few weeks earlier on October 20, 1973, the Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) had declared an oil embargo on America and
much of the Western world while also instating massive production cuts that quadrupled
the price of oil by 1974.2
Nixon’s eforts to hold down oil prices were ultimately futile: by
the time he lef ofce in August 1974, prices were still 215 percent above the pre-embargo
level, even though the embargo ended in March 1974.3
Oil prices continued to increase
from 1974 to 1978, rising by 18 percent during President Gerald Ford’s time in ofce.4
There were, of course, limits on the extent to which the president could control foreign oil
prices. But did Nixon and Ford do everything in their power to attempt to lower prices?
This paper will argue that Nixon’s claim that he would do anything he could to decrease
oil prices was disingenuous and that he did not in fact consider lowering oil prices an immediate
strategic objective. Internal correspondence and meeting records from the Ford
Memoranda of Conversations show that the White House carefully weighed the value of
pressuring Iran to lower oil prices against the benefits of maintaining strong relations with
Iran for the sake of fighting c*******m in the Middle East.
Nixon and Ford, along with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, possessed the power
to exert pressure on the Shah and fight the oil price increases from 1974 to 1976. Yet
both administrations abstained due to political calculus: to them, the value of maintaining
positive relations with the Shah of Iran outweighed the adverse economic efects of higher
oil prices. These men believed that a short-term increase in oil price was a necessary trad

https://estore.archives.gov/Carter/ProductInfo/C1008.aspx

Jimmy Carter inherited a deeply troubled economy. The "great inflation" that is associated with his presidency in fact began in the latter part of the Johnson years, and the oil crisis Carter faced was the second oil price shock of the decade. In addition, a decline in worker productivity and a rise in competition from Germany and Japan compounded the nation's economic problems.

These economic pressures created a crisis of political identity for the Democratic Party, moving it toward the political center. Full employment, the traditional priority of Democratic policy, requires an activist government willing to increase public spending and cut taxes. The anti-inflation policy that was forced on Carter by the economic realities of the day included controlling public spending, limiting the expansion of the welfare state, and postponing popular tax cuts. Moreover, according to Biven, Carter argued that the ambitious policies of the Great Society were no longer possible in an age of limits and that the Democratic Party must by economic necessity become more centrist. Although he faced severe criticism during his term, says Biven, Carter accurately perceived the changed fiscal landscape and the need for a shift in Democratic policy.



https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/27/world/ac-six-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-iran-hostage-crisis/index.html

4) The hostages were released only after President Reagan was sworn in.
Ted Koppel described this as the Iranians' last act of cruelty toward President Carter. Even though the United States and Iran had come to an agreement to free the hostages in December, the Iranians waited literally until the hour President Reagan was sworn in before allowing the plane with the hostages to take off. The Iranians had a deep hatred of Carter and wanted to deny him this last moment of victory as President.