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Energy Secure Nation by Steve Payne
 Author
says: what if Jimmy Carter had been elected life-term Presidency (as
envisaged by the 1787 Constitutional Convention) and he (and not Barack
Obama) appealed for clean energy after Deepwater? Please note that the
opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the
author(s).
In 2010,
speaking from an underground bunker in an undisclosed
location, life-term US President Jimmy Carter denied that the environmental
catastrophe caused by geo-thermal drilling was the direct result of his
thirty-year "self-sufficient" energy policy outlined to the American people
in his "malaise speech" of July 15th, 1979.
The oil people have too much money and they don't
want us spending money on green technologies! - readers commentSince
that time, the new "energy-secure nation" had dramatically reduced its
reliance on imported oil, largely withdrawing itself from unnecessary
security commitments in the Middle East and Western Europe which of course
the Soviet Union now occupied. However an explosion on the 20th April had
caused catastrophic damage to the environment in the northern hemisphere,
with speculation rife that an extinction-level event had only narrowly been
averted.
And the problem was that the alleged success of the self-sufficiency program
meant that the US could no longer shut down domestic facilities as
environmentalists were demanding. To do so would turn off supply, bringing
the country to the very standstill it had set out to avoid. Instead, Carter
announced an acceleration of the second track of the policy, to move to a
new platform of clean, renewable energy sources by 2025. By which time, it
was hoped that the ecosphere would have returned to something approaching
normal and peanut farming might again become viable.
Author
says for this Deepwater alternative timeline, we have included a number
of ideas suggested by Eric Lipps, Robbie Taylor, Stan Brin, Eric Oppen and
David Atwell. To view guest historian's comments on this post please visit
the
Today in Alternate History web site.
Steve Payne, Editor of
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Imagine what would be, if history had occurred a bit
differently. Who says it didn't, somewhere? These fictional news items
explore that possibility. Possibilities such as America becoming a Marxist
superpower, aliens influencing human history in the 18th century and Teddy
Roosevelt winning his 3rd term as president abound in this interesting
fictional blog.
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