Like I said, you need to read the whole history, not the talking points. First, solar panels in the 70’s didn’t produce electricity. So stop confusing them with the panels available now. They were tied into the heating system. And, as I previously stated, those types of panels didn’t work well. They could only run wide open, often heating the water to high.

Second, at that time, terrorism was not a concern to us. The Middle East radicals had not yet really been created, and they had not target the US. The big event at that time was still the 72 slaughtering of the Israeli Olympic athletes. Once the oil embargo that OPEC had put in place was settled, there was no energy crisis. There was the Iran embassy siege in 1980, but that was in Iran, not in the US.

As for oil companies replacing Carter, Carter got himself replaced. Truth is, he was probably too good of a man to ever try to deal with Washington. But even so, his administration was filled with problems. On top of the oil crisis, there was the economy, then the Iran embassy, then there was the complete and utter failure of the hostage rescue attempt that killed 8 Special Forces operators and left wreckage of one of our helicopters and one of our planes burned up in the Iranian Desert. All of this after the Country was still fresh with scars from Vietnam and most people weren’t trusting the government.

Like I said, the truth never fits in a two sentence talking point.