• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    yup. and critically, it was all available in 79, when this was rolled out. I would love to see a 100% renewable federal energy budget but we literally can’t do it today with our modern tech, 1979 it was a dream. but Carter realized that examples like the white house saving tens of thousands of dollars every month on something as simple as hot water was a win, no matter if the tech was a panacea for our energy needs - the action of doing something.

    reagan and conservatives are in the pocket of big industry and big oil, so yeah, no shit they didn’t go for it, chuds.

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      9 months ago

      My dad really loved Carter, and designed and built a passive solar home that he hoped would be the blueprint for whole developments of them.

      Then Reagan got elected.

      Luckily he’s still got the plans somewhere.

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        9 months ago

        I think Carter was one of the best presidents we’ve ever had in a lot of ways.

        Former military, submariner, without an ounce of warmonger in the dude. avoided conflict intelligently. did the best with a shit-sandwich of multiple world crisis landing. genuinely believed in his religion without ever forcing it on others. lived humbly. knew we were building the f117 and it’s existence basically negated a lot of the need for the b-1 (lol bone) (which had a host of other threats and problems dogging it) - and Reagan crucified him for the choice by pandering to the military industrial complex even after he was read-into the situation. Was scientifically literate enough to understand stealth changed the entire landscape of war.

        There’s a lot to love, the right just hates him because of bullshit.