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Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe
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By Peter Schweizer
Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." To do otherwise, he says, will result in a cataclysmic catastrophe. "Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb," warns the website for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. "We have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin."
ON DEADLINE: Your thoughts?
Graciously, Gore tells consumers how to change their lives to curb their carbon-gobbling ways: Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs, use a clothesline, drive a hybrid, use renewable energy, dramatically cut back on consumption. Better still, responsible global citizens can follow Gore's example, because, as he readily points out in his speeches, he lives a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." But if Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.
For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)
Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.
Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.
But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.
Gore is not alone. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has said, "Global warming is happening, and it threatens our very existence." The DNC website applauds the fact that Gore has "tried to move people to act." Yet, astoundingly, Gore's persuasive powers have failed to convince his own party: The DNC has not signed up to pay an additional two pennies a kilowatt hour to go green. For that matter, neither has the Republican National Committee.
Maybe our very existence isn't threatened.
Gore has held these apocalyptic views about the environment for some time. So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas.
Living carbon-neutral apparently doesn't mean living oil-stock free. Nor does it necessarily mean giving up a mining royalty either.
Humanity might be "sitting on a ticking time bomb," but Gore's home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River.
The issue here is not simply Gore's hypocrisy; it's a question of credibility. If he genuinely believes the apocalyptic vision he has put forth and calls for radical changes in the way other people live, why hasn't he made any radical change in his life? Giving up the zinc mine or one of his homes is not asking much, given that he wants the rest of us to radically change our lives.
Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." To do otherwise, he says, will result in a cataclysmic catastrophe. "Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb," warns the website for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. "We have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin."
ON DEADLINE: Your thoughts?
Graciously, Gore tells consumers how to change their lives to curb their carbon-gobbling ways: Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs, use a clothesline, drive a hybrid, use renewable energy, dramatically cut back on consumption. Better still, responsible global citizens can follow Gore's example, because, as he readily points out in his speeches, he lives a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." But if Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.
For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)
Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.
Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.
But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.
Gore is not alone. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has said, "Global warming is happening, and it threatens our very existence." The DNC website applauds the fact that Gore has "tried to move people to act." Yet, astoundingly, Gore's persuasive powers have failed to convince his own party: The DNC has not signed up to pay an additional two pennies a kilowatt hour to go green. For that matter, neither has the Republican National Committee.
Maybe our very existence isn't threatened.
Gore has held these apocalyptic views about the environment for some time. So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas.
Living carbon-neutral apparently doesn't mean living oil-stock free. Nor does it necessarily mean giving up a mining royalty either.
Humanity might be "sitting on a ticking time bomb," but Gore's home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River.
The issue here is not simply Gore's hypocrisy; it's a question of credibility. If he genuinely believes the apocalyptic vision he has put forth and calls for radical changes in the way other people live, why hasn't he made any radical change in his life? Giving up the zinc mine or one of his homes is not asking much, given that he wants the rest of us to radically change our lives.
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-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
amen to that (I carry my guns in the front seat, right in between my elbow and shoulder).
Fuck yeah, Liberals way of thinking must be abolish, and we should establish a large North American country with a COnservative in charge, jailing all the Liberals in Mexico, USA and Canada, will teach them... where's is my white robe????
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
settle down, take a deep breath and meds if necessary. This isn't about abolishing liberals, it's about exposing a hypocrite! We all know on the train how ALL republicans are hypocrites <wink> but most here take what gore says as Gospel and believe he really IS changing to make a difference. Yeah, whatever. Glad I could help bring this exposure to the train.
now, have a great rest of the evening.
yeah, Gore is just an hypocrites, they're all buying into Gore gospel, must be stopped !!!! Thanks for bringing this fact around, it's needed around here, damn liberals lunatics can't get around without messing this planet... go israel...
hehehe
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I don't know if he can. He's looking for his white robe, which can be frustrating when you can't find something. When I forget where I've left my keys or phone, I get frustrated.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Eh, all we really want is just to have a little fun at someone else's expense. That is probably the number one Republican ideal.
Hehe, ok i find my meds, btw (and seriously) i think Gore is an opportunist, just like Moore, but their point of view is not out of touch with reality, bashing Gore doesn't change the global warming situation, unless you don't believe it'S happening, so Gore is just pointless, bashing him is pointless, only in my opinion of course...
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
That just popped into my head. Thank you...uh...thankyougrandma...?
Agreed. Although I really wasn't debating the Gore topic or any topic here. Just saying stupid shit! I'm in a good mood, so why would I want to debate anybody? Pass the meds around!
You (and a lot of other conservative radicals) seem to be on a mission to discredit and slander Al Gore.
I've been over why you're a suicidal dumbfuck in at least 2 of your threads and still haven't heard a rubuttle to anything i've said (and been backed about on said threads).
Dont you have better things to do than look up smear-articles about al gore?
http://www.wishlistfoundation.org
Oh my, they dropped the leash.
Morgan Freeman/Clint Eastwood 08' for President!
"Make our day"
when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley
I wouldn't talk shit about someone on the right trolling for smear-articles unless you talk shit about those on the left who do the same thing.
And I recommend working less!
Absolutely big of you! Thanks for the personal attack. Greatly appreciated!
Great idea
www.myspace.com/jensvad
aren't we all?
I mean, we don't all own stock in oil companies that drive people off their land...
but we love to burn that shit!
And I fully back the argument about left wing smear journalists but really that has absolutely nothing to do with what i said. They're all douchebags. I was specifically referring to that douchebag binauralsounds and how he's been tackling the apparent problem of Al Gore being the anti christ and how what he and people like him are saying is suicidal. And once again, that makes him a dumbfuck.
Plus just because you don't like Al Gore doesn't mean his point about how we're polluting the hell out of our air and have a dependancy on gasoline and oil comparable to that of a bad heroin addiction is less valid.
Seriously, you can't combat what i said with "well you didn't specifically mention the liberal side of this.." I hate all of them. Jesus that was a stupid reply to what I said.
and here's what i said earlier, again.
You tell me why he's not a dumbfuck and I'll allow that to be deleted.
http://www.wishlistfoundation.org
Oh my, they dropped the leash.
Morgan Freeman/Clint Eastwood 08' for President!
"Make our day"
I think you know why it got deleted. You left out a key part where you bashed me with a cute name...
when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley
So why haven't you refutted anything I've said?
http://www.wishlistfoundation.org
Oh my, they dropped the leash.
Morgan Freeman/Clint Eastwood 08' for President!
"Make our day"
there is no possible way to even try to refute what you say after your rant/bash on me and sterotyping others here on the train. your mind is set
when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley