Abstract
On April 18 of this year, the President of the United States made a television address to the American people on the subject of energy. It was a somber talk. He described the energy situation facing this nation as "the greatest challenge that our country will face during our lifetimes" with the exception of preventing war. He went on to say that our efforts to deal with the energy crisis must be the "moral equivalent of war", and that the alternative to those efforts "may be a national catastrophe."
President Carter's talk was not the first Presidential energy message. There have been at least six earlier energy messages going back to June 1971. Unfortunately, those earlier messages did not convey the sense of urgency that the energy crisis really merits. Nor were they heeded by the nation to any significant degree.
Recommended Citation
Myers, William A. III, "Energy and National Security" (1977). UMR-MEC Conference on Energy / UMR-DNR Conference on Energy. 301, pp. 386-392.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/umr-mec/301
Meeting Name
4th Annual UMR-DNR Conference on Energy (1977: Oct. 11-13, Rolla, MO)
Document Type
Conference proceedings
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 1977 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
13 Oct 1977
Comments
Luncheon Speaker: Rear Admiral William A. Myers, III, USN