Richard M Nixion, State of the Union 1974
...In all of the 186 State of the Union messages delivered from this place, in our history this is the first in which the one priority, the first priority, is energy. Let me begin by reporting a new development which I know will be welcome news to every American. As you know, we have committed ourselves to an active role in helping to achieve a just and durable peace in the Middle East, on the basis of full implementation of Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. The first step in the process is the disengagement of Egyptian and Israeli forces which is now taking place. ...
...Last week, I sent to the Congress a comprehensive special message setting forth our energy situation, recommending the legislative measures which are necessary to a program for meeting our needs. If the embargo is lifted, this will ease the crisis, but it will not mean an end to the energy shortage in America. Voluntary conservation will continue to be necessary. And let me take this occasion to pay tribute once again to the splendid spirit of cooperation the American people have shown which has made possible our success in meeting this emergency up to this time. ...
... As we move toward the celebration 2 years from now of the 200th anniversary of this Nation's independence, let us press vigorously on toward the goal I announced last November for Project Independence. Let this be our national goal: At the end of this decade, in the year 1980, the United States will not be dependent on any other country for the energy we need to provide our jobs, to heat our homes, and to keep our transportation moving.
To indicate the size of the Government commitment, to spur energy research and development, we plan to spend $10 billion in Federal funds over the next 5 years. That is an enormous amount. But during the same 5 years, private enterprise will be investing as much as $200 billion-- and in 10 years, $500 billion--to develop the new resources, the new technology, the new capacity America will require for its energy needs in the 1980's. That is just a measure of the magnitude of the project we are undertaking. ...
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...Last week, I sent to the Congress a comprehensive special message setting forth our energy situation, recommending the legislative measures which are necessary to a program for meeting our needs. If the embargo is lifted, this will ease the crisis, but it will not mean an end to the energy shortage in America. Voluntary conservation will continue to be necessary. And let me take this occasion to pay tribute once again to the splendid spirit of cooperation the American people have shown which has made possible our success in meeting this emergency up to this time. ...
... As we move toward the celebration 2 years from now of the 200th anniversary of this Nation's independence, let us press vigorously on toward the goal I announced last November for Project Independence. Let this be our national goal: At the end of this decade, in the year 1980, the United States will not be dependent on any other country for the energy we need to provide our jobs, to heat our homes, and to keep our transportation moving.
To indicate the size of the Government commitment, to spur energy research and development, we plan to spend $10 billion in Federal funds over the next 5 years. That is an enormous amount. But during the same 5 years, private enterprise will be investing as much as $200 billion-- and in 10 years, $500 billion--to develop the new resources, the new technology, the new capacity America will require for its energy needs in the 1980's. That is just a measure of the magnitude of the project we are undertaking. ...
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Comment by Richard Wickberg on September 4, 2008 at 7:46am - Dan, I'll never forgert the day of August 9th, 1974, the day Nixon resigned. I was sergent of our barracks guard, 'A' Troop, 3/5th Air Cavalry, 9th Infantry Division , Ft, Lewis WA. Nothing like this had ever happened so we were put on high alert and beside carring a loaded side arm I had a loaded M-16 with orders to fire at any suspicious activities. At midnight I calmly went to the pictures of the chain of command, replaced Nixon with Ford and while making a barracks check placed Nixon's picture in a book. Nothing happened that night and all on guard duty were given a four day passas we wern't allowed to catch an hour's sleep. Big deal, I was the communications chief and on maneuvers we never slept; just chaine smoked, drank miserable army coffee and ate greasy bacon and green scrambled egg sandwitches while conducting radio traffic, passing up and down orders. A peach of a job!
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Comment by BurgessKJ on August 18, 2008 at 7:36pm - Time to stop listening to politicians, and build it yourself. The govt looks like it will go bankrupt before I can retire, so I might as well build it myself too.
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Comment by BurgessKJ on August 16, 2008 at 11:12pm
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Yes, I remember this promise. This was also about the same time that he killed the NASA budget, and got rid of everything except the bus-to-nowhere (Shuttlecraft). It was also very shortly before the Watergate break in caused resignation.
Back then a pack of cigarettes cost 50 cents, so with today's cost for the same pack at around $5, that $10 billion in todays terms would be the equivalent of $100 billion!!!
Kind of makes Boone's contribution seem kinda small, and reminds us what the government SHOULD be putting towards alternative energy development.
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