Gerald Ford actually said...

This proclamation that I am about to sign is the first step down the long and difficult road toward regaining our energy freedom.

We need a program that will make us invulnerable to the possibility of foreign oil embargoes or any other action.

I promised at the very beginning of my Administration to be President of all the people, and I am keeping that pledge.

This law must not be allowed to expire in August of 1975.