During the oil embargo of the 70's, Carter had solar panels installed on the White House. When Reagan took office, in additon to eliminating about 90% of the tax credits for solar research (in effect, raising taxes on this work), he had the solar panels taken down and sent to a warehouse.
Why would he do this?
http://www.unity.edu/News/solar1004.htm
2007-01-08 07:30:22 · 10 answers · asked by Steve 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
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AndyG - the falling oil prices would have made no difference. The cost of Solar is all in the production and installation - after that it's free energy. Removing existing panels makes no economic sense, no matter what the price of oil. Reagan actually had the govt. pay extra to avoid reducing the electric bill of the White House.
2007-01-08 07:43:56 · update #1
The answer is in the article,
"The solar heating panels were installed on the roof of the West Wing, but removed during Ronald Reagan´s presidency in 1986, after the energy crisis and worries about dependence on foreign oil had subsided."
2007-01-08 07:35:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I was just out of college, then, and it was a different time. People weren't thinking so much about running out of energy or climate change. The panels that Carter put up were very weak by today's standards, and not cost-effective at all. But they had symbolic value, a vision for the future, and for that reason, I think they should have been left on. Nixon was worse. He would keep the A/C set in the 40's in the summer so that he could have a fire in the fireplace.
2016-05-23 11:53:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If only 5% of every Americans energy was created by solar power than that's billions of dollars lost to big oil, nuff said!
2007-01-08 07:35:40 · answer #3 · answered by crazyhorse19682003 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
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2017-02-01 17:39:46 · answer #4 · answered by Josephine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Reagan was as superficial then as he always had been. Any suggestion of supporting alternative energy was "commie" and something Ronnie just wasn't gonna do.
2007-01-08 07:37:22 · answer #5 · answered by kenny J 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
ole "Ketchup is a vegetable" Reagan (God rest his soul) was probably starting to feel the effects of his disease and making some odd decisions long before any official would have been willing to admit....
2007-01-08 07:39:03 · answer #6 · answered by pip 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
A slap in the face to the Carter administration and Democrats in general....his presidency showed that he did not care for the environment at all and was not interested in alternative sources of energy.
2007-01-08 07:35:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Wow. I didnt know he did that. Reagan probably took presedential petroleum baths with his boyfriend George Bush every morning too. What a homo.
2007-01-08 07:36:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
The pigeons were making a mess so they tookem down.
2007-01-08 07:35:14 · answer #9 · answered by (A) 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
All that sun would have melted his makeup.
2007-01-08 07:32:05 · answer #10 · answered by Coulter Geist 1 · 3⤊ 4⤋