1979 oil crisis - Wikipedia Since then, gasoline price controls had been repealed, but those on domestic oil remained The Jimmy Carter administration began a phased deregulation of oil prices on April 5, 1979, when the average price of crude oil was US$15 85 per barrel ($100 m 3)
Carters Energy Crisis - American Heritage Energy had now become a crisis for Jimmy Carter’s own presidency Oil prices more than doubled, gas lines returned in the United States to the great ire of motorists, anger swept the country, and inflation surged A frustrated Carter fired members of his Cabinet
Carter’s National Energy Plan: Never Forget, Never Again Gasoline Lines Government supply-and-demand programs proved inadequate to prevent motor fuel shortages (gasoline lines) in the spring and summer of 1979 In his “Malaise Speech” to the nation, Carter looked for more government, not less
The Carter Administration - 1979 Year in Review - Audio - UPI Jim Lounsbury: The incident at Three Mile Island made the country aware of the problems that energy sources can give birth to, but no energy event hit home more heavily than the nationwide shortage
How Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech Still Matters Thirty years ago, on July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter went on national television to give a jolting speech Billed as an address about the "energy crisis" — the recent cutoff of Iranian fuel that generated long and angry gas lines at home — it wound up lashing out at the American way of life
Lessons From 1970s Long Gas Rationing Lines We Should Pay . . . Many of us experienced first-hand the rationing, restrictions and long lines of President Jimmy Carter’s decisions It was devastating and did not set too well with most Americans when Carter, discussing high home-heating oil prices, encouraged us to wear a sweater and turn down the thermostat