Jimmy Carter's Energy Speech from 1979

In the last column here I presented the seminal speech Carter made about energy in 1977. It was so ahead of its time that I have kept it for a few decades. Both the 1977 and the 1979 speech below need to be read with some historical context.

First, the energy mentality in the US in the late 1970s was fully shaped by the OPEC Oil Embargo of 1973-74. Th…