Question

What was Jimmy Carter's response to the nation's oil crisis?

Answer 1

Jimmy Carter's response to the nation's oil crisis was to request that the nation conserve fuel, he put on a sweater and announced that he was turning his thermostat down to 55 degrees.

Answer 2

President Carter gave a speech in 1979 that has been called his "crisis of confidence" speech.  The speech was prompted by the nation's energy crisis and recession.  President Carter, himself a deeply religious man, put forth the idea that America's dilemma was at its root a moral and spiritual issue.  A lack of “moral and spiritual confidence,” as he put it, meant that Americans were finding themselves too weak to pull themselves up out of their economic malaise.  He also accepted a share of the blame himself, for not being strong enough in his leadership on issues like energy consumption and use of oil resources.