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Mark Steyn: How Gore's massive energy consumption saves the world
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | March 4, 2007 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 03/04/2007 4:54:02 AM PST by Tom D.

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To: ryan71
That's right: he profits from polluting the planet with the fossil fuel that contributes to alleged global warming and then he turns right around and profits AGAIN from paying himself for using the fossil fuel he's supposed to shun. The Green Evangelists are any thing but examples of parsimonious conduct. There's nothing to admire or like about how they lecture to others to live on less while they can consume as much as they want.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

61 posted on 03/04/2007 8:22:28 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

It's time to put a 'POWERED BY CARBON OFFSETS' bumper sticker on my wonderful SUV.


62 posted on 03/04/2007 8:36:54 AM PST by aimhigh
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To: aflaak

ping


63 posted on 03/04/2007 8:51:43 AM PST by r-q-tek86 (Snakes can't be taught to walk.)
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To: xcamel

Ah, you didn't say it was Mark Steyn! Amazing writer, rapier-like wit.


64 posted on 03/04/2007 8:53:50 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Prevent Glo-Ball Warming ... turn out the sun when not in use)
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To: Tom D.
Tall and tan and young and lovely, the boy with carbon offsets goes walking and when he passes each one he passes goes aaaiiieeeeeeeee!

Leo DiCaprio as The Girl from Ipanema! Mark Steyn bump!

65 posted on 03/04/2007 8:54:53 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Tom D.

See South Park thread below.


66 posted on 03/04/2007 8:56:45 AM PST by steve8714
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To: Tom D.
Could I pay someone to starve so I could eat pizza all the time?

What weight they would lose I would gain..net effect 'obese neutral'

67 posted on 03/04/2007 8:59:59 AM PST by Voltage
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To: mewzilla

Hello...
I need your help.

Due to recent Civil Unrest, I have 30,000,000 Carbon Crediots trapped in a Nigerian bank......


68 posted on 03/04/2007 9:02:21 AM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: mainepatsfan

I believe the missing word there is "...nipples"


69 posted on 03/04/2007 9:12:54 AM PST by Doc Savage ("You couldn't tame me, but you taught me.................")
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To: wolfpat
"I don't think hydropower should be counted because after the initial construction is paid off, the power is effectively free"

Not true....

Big contributor to global warming is all the methane etc that bubbles up from the rotting forests and other vege matter beneath the new lake upstream from the dam.

70 posted on 03/04/2007 9:16:36 AM PST by spokeshave ("Hitlery is uniting the country. Everybody hates her.")
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To: Tom D.

BTTT


71 posted on 03/04/2007 9:27:08 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: MurryMom
So Al can buy his carbon offsets from himself. Better yet, he can buy them with the money he gets from his long-time relationship with Occidental Petroleum. See how easy it is to be carbon-neutral? All you have do is own a gazillion stocks in Big Oil, start an eco-stockbroking firm to make eco-friendly investments, use a small portion of your oil company's profits to buy some tax-deductible carbon offsets from your own investment firm, and you too can save the planet while making money and leaving a carbon footprint roughly the size of Godzilla's at the start of the movie when they're all standing around in the little toe wondering what the strange depression in the landscape is.

Doesn't sound like your hero Algore is doing much to bring back those glaciers after all. The phoney-baloney Reverend Al has been exposed. (And THAT isn't a pretty picture...)

Time for your daily dose of Kool-Aid - isn't it?

72 posted on 03/04/2007 9:30:02 AM PST by Libloather (If solar power is the way to go, wouldn't global warming help out?)
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To: highlander_UW

A Guinness?

Have a Molsons or Labatts.


73 posted on 03/04/2007 9:35:21 AM PST by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSHA)
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To: spokeshave

What you say is true, but the "Carbon Offset" con men are advertising hydropower as a green power source.


74 posted on 03/04/2007 9:53:10 AM PST by wolfpat (If you don't like the Patriot Act, you're really gonna hate Sharia Law.)
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To: tcrlaf

"Hello...
I need your help.

Due to recent Civil Unrest, I have 30,000,000 Carbon Crediots trapped in a Nigerian bank......"


I would be glad to help but I have already printed out my carbon offset certificates for the year. I feel much better about myself and slept like a baby the last couple of nights. I also turned up the thermostat so I can lounge in front of the TV in shorts without getting a chill. Life is good thanks to the invention of the carbon offset.


75 posted on 03/04/2007 9:57:43 AM PST by mickey finn
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To: Tom D.
I just checked out "Carbon Credits" on eBay.

Yes, indeed, you can buy them there! Apparently there are "certified" individuals out there making a big profit on this scam.

You can purchase for about $10.00 a ton.

76 posted on 03/04/2007 10:06:33 AM PST by R_Kangel ("Please insert witty tag-line here")
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To: ryan71
The Clintons are not half as smart as this guy.

Or, perhaps, not as smart as the guys who are using Algore to run their own eco-scam.

Algore was never the sharpest knife in the drawer -- a quality which qualified him to be Clinton's Veep. So, it's easy to see him, not as the author of this particular scam, but as the obtuse dolt who is being manipulated by others.

77 posted on 03/04/2007 10:16:40 AM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Tom D.

WHOAAA>......I didn't know his Company, Generation whatever, was a 501C3!!!!! Going wee wee because of iced tea to avoid questions and prosecution was one thing, but THIS might just break the gorebull!


78 posted on 03/04/2007 10:18:45 AM PST by goodnesswins (We need to cure Academentia)
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To: Oldexpat

-now THAT is a devious scheme.....I love it!


79 posted on 03/04/2007 10:26:27 AM PST by tioga
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To: live+let_live
bean dip IS NOT eco-friendly!
80 posted on 03/04/2007 10:27:54 AM PST by tioga
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