He conserved 100 million acres in Alaska, doubling our national park system under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act!! Carter understood this dependence on fossil fuels kept energy prices and reliance on foreign oil high, but Americans didn’t want to hear it. There’s plenty of oil in Alaska so let’s drill, drill, drill. He signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act into law on Dec. 2, 1980 – one of the last acts of his presidency. Carter and Biden shared the best of human traits: kindness, decency and honesty, yet Americans chose Reagan and threw out Carter; just as they now chose Trump over Biden/Kamala Harris.