President Jimmy Carter has terminal cancer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He's a truly great man. In terms of integrity, character, and decency, he is the greatest President of my lifetime.

On the first part...you are in the majority...on the last part...definitely the minority.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope he meets Our Creator and has made right with Him, and will enter heaven with joy!

He brokered peace between Egypt and Israel, cured a disease, and funded the research that lead to our current natural gas and oil boom.

He furthered something that had already begun and in part in response to a crisis that he had a part in exacerbated.

"While Jimmy Carter is often pointed to as the President who initiated the energy push in response to the oil crises of the early seventies, it was Republican President Gerald Ford who began a concerted federal effort to seek "unconventional" natural gas in response to shortages. "The DOE's [1976] Eastern Gas Shales Project [in the Appalachia basin] determined there was a hell of a lot of gas in shales," explained Steward. "Mitchell was interested in Barnett [shale] and his geophysicist said, 'It looks similar to the Devonian [shale], and the government's already done all this work on the Devonian.'"

As for curing a disease...if you are talking about Guinea worm disease there is no cure. It had been eliminated throughout most of the world through improved water supply. Mr. Carter led an effort to eradicate in an area of Africa that still had a problem with their water supply. Commendable no doubt...but he didn't cure a disease.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/carter-guinea-worm/

Your source isn't very good on shale fuel. The big Federal contribution was the Energy Act of 1980. The tax credits and elimination of price controls on shale gas, as well as the R&D funding for hydraulic fracturing through the synthetic fuels corporation, which moved shale research from the DOE to public-private partnerships and gave $88 billion in funding to boot. Carter gets the credit for that.

My sources are just fine and I guess you missed that I stated "He furthered something that had already begun and in part in response to a crisis that he had a part in exacerbated."

Sorry but Michael Shellenberger is not an oil and gas man. His source is Terry Engender, and if you read Terry Engender you will see that he credits Carter, not Ford, and he places the innovations in 1978+.

The fact is that in 1976 the DOE spent less than ten million dollars on the project you cited. It was the billions of funding through Section 29, the private-public partnership that moved the research out of DOE, and the elimination of price caps for unconventional natural gas that spurred innovation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG he is 90. He can't live forever.
I didn't know he was still alive.

Way to be proud of your ignorance.

This thread is disgraceful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope he meets Our Creator and has made right with Him, and will enter heaven with joy!

He brokered peace between Egypt and Israel, cured a disease, and funded the research that lead to our current natural gas and oil boom.

He furthered something that had already begun and in part in response to a crisis that he had a part in exacerbated.

"While Jimmy Carter is often pointed to as the President who initiated the energy push in response to the oil crises of the early seventies, it was Republican President Gerald Ford who began a concerted federal effort to seek "unconventional" natural gas in response to shortages. "The DOE's [1976] Eastern Gas Shales Project [in the Appalachia basin] determined there was a hell of a lot of gas in shales," explained Steward. "Mitchell was interested in Barnett [shale] and his geophysicist said, 'It looks similar to the Devonian [shale], and the government's already done all this work on the Devonian.'"

As for curing a disease...if you are talking about Guinea worm disease there is no cure. It had been eliminated throughout most of the world through improved water supply. Mr. Carter led an effort to eradicate in an area of Africa that still had a problem with their water supply. Commendable no doubt...but he didn't cure a disease.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/carter-guinea-worm/

Your source isn't very good on shale fuel. The big Federal contribution was the Energy Act of 1980. The tax credits and elimination of price controls on shale gas, as well as the R&D funding for hydraulic fracturing through the synthetic fuels corporation, which moved shale research from the DOE to public-private partnerships and gave $88 billion in funding to boot. Carter gets the credit for that.

My sources are just fine and I guess you missed that I stated "He furthered something that had already begun and in part in response to a crisis that he had a part in exacerbated."

Sorry but Michael Shellenberger is not an oil and gas man. His source is Terry Engender, and if you read Terry Engender you will see that he credits Carter, not Ford, and he places the innovations in 1978+.

The fact is that in 1976 the DOE spent less than ten million dollars on the project you cited. It was the billions of funding through Section 29, the private-public partnership that moved the research out of DOE, and the elimination of price caps for unconventional natural gas that spurred innovation.

Look...all I said was it began with Ford, ERDA, and I further stated as to Carter, "He furthered something that had already begun and in part in response to a crisis that he had a part in exacerbated."

As to the Energy Omnibus Bill

http://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal75-1213502#H2_4

The partial lifting of price controls under ERDA was a start in getting companies to explore unconventional methods to extract etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He was an incompetent fool that destroyed our economy. Best news I've heard all day.

This statement only makes sense if were still in office. What you are saying makes you sound evil.

[Anonymous]

Worst President we ever had. Luckily Obama will take that honor from him soon!

He was a good Ex-President though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OMG he is 90. He can't live forever.
I didn't know he was still alive.

Way to be proud of your ignorance.

This thread is disgraceful.

He is 90!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG he is 90. He can't live forever.
I didn't know he was still alive.

Way to be proud of your ignorance.

This thread is disgraceful.

He is 90!!!!

PP said he/she didn't know that Carter was still alive. That is the ignorance to which I referred, genius.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OMG he is 90. He can't live forever.
I didn't know he was still alive.

Way to be proud of your ignorance.

This thread is disgraceful.

I am Canadian. Do you know the status of our former Prime Ministers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG he is 90. He can't live forever.
I didn't know he was still alive.

Way to be proud of your ignorance.

This thread is disgraceful.

I am Canadian. Do you know the status of our former Prime Ministers?

Where is Canada?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG he is 90. He can't live forever.
I didn't know he was still alive.

Way to be proud of your ignorance.

This thread is disgraceful.

I am Canadian. Do you know the status of our former Prime Ministers?

It's Canada. Who cares?