re: Questions about Reagan

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I'm not sure about oil production and all that at the time, I wasn't born until 82', but I know places like Houma, Laff, Morgan City and so on had some major booms around that time up until the late 80s I believe there was a crash. May have been early 90s..... Not sure if Reagan had anything to do with being energy friendly

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Several factors precipitated the oil crash. Energy conservation measures started taking effect. Certain policy changes led to increased US production-some of them started under Carter, others under Reagan. OPEC was unable to control its members, meanwhile new non-OPEC sources came online like the North Sea and Nigeria. The final straw was when Saudi Arabia tried to regain market share by turning the taps wide open.

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Him throwing dollars at the Afgans because he was scared of communism may have actually bit us in the arse 20 years later

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This. Unintended consequences in spades. Then when the Soviets collapsed, we forgot about Afghanistan and left a destroyed country, young men with nothing to do and no future, and a lot of weapons lying around.