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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope he meets Our Creator and has made right with Him, and will enter heaven with joy![/quote]

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

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/[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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