CSPAN 1980 Presidential Candidates Debate September 25, 2016
Mr. Smith we have to go to another question now, from harry ellis to president carter. Mr. Ellis mr. President , as you have said, americans, through conservation, are importing much less oil today than we were even a year ago. Yet u. S. Dependence on arab oil as a percentage of total imports is today much higher than it was at the time of the 1973 arab oil embargo, and for some time to came, the loss of substantial amounts of arab oil could plunge the u. S. Into depression. This means that a bridge must be built out of this dependence. Can the United States develop Synthetic Fuels and other a...