This isn't true or fair, Carter got voted out of office cause he sucked at everything. Oil wa just one of his deadly flaws. The fact is it can be blamed on liberal environmental movements as they became the oil companies patsies by stopping any new refineries or drilling in the US. This is why we have an "artificial" shortage that we are getting raped by atm. That said its better if we just move on from oil anyways, and I'm willing pay for it as a human being.