You're making excuses about why your OP is wrong from what I can tell. The cause of the inflation is irrelevant. The effect of inflation on the numbers you're posting is....
I have addressed it several times. Nixon pulled America out of the Bretton Woods Agreement and took us off a precious metal standard. Fiat currency is volatile, and Carter took the office when the predictable and necessary adjustment came due.
On top of that, the energy crisis was a major driver as...
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united- ... production
As I suspected, industrial output grew far faster under Reagan than Carter. It's no wonder average real income grew under one and shrank under the other....