It will only cost $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion with the right mix of government policies.
Posted on 07/19/2008 4:53:49 AM PDT by Zakeet
Former Vice President Al Gore urged Congress not to overturn a federal ban on offshore drilling and complained that lawmakers are "being stampeded by lobbyists for special interests" eager to lift the moratorium.
In a speech and interview, Mr. Gore called for moving the U.S. toward "zero-carbon" electricity over a decade, and reiterated his support for a carbon tax accompanied by a "sharp reduction" in payroll taxes.
"We have to switch from carbon-intensive fuels to renewable energy," Mr. Gore said. Although some recent opinion polls have found evidence of a shift in public opinion toward favoring more domestic drilling as a response to high oil prices, Mr. Gore declined to read much into those findings.
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Mr. Gore's comments come amid signs that climate change is sliding down Washington's priority list, as lawmakers have pivoted to voter concerns about high fuel prices. A bill to create a system for capping emissions of greenhouse gases in the U.S. economy was shelved in the Senate in June. A growing number of Democratic lawmakers also have said publicly in recent weeks that they could support a relaxation of the current drilling ban as a response to high oil and natural-gas prices.
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Mr. Gore called for a huge upgrade of the nation's electric grid, while "helping our struggling auto giants" switch to manufacturing plug-in electric cars. The Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan group Mr. Gore leads, put the cost of his plan to switch to an entirely carbon-free electricity supply at approximately $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion, and said most of that investment could come from private sources with the right mix of government policies.
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It will only cost $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion with the right mix of government policies.
The special interest queen should keep his mouth shut.
"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
Just think, this man nearly won the presidency 8 years ago.
Instead of fighting off a recession, we would probably be in a major depression by now.
And he’s well on his way to becoming a billionaire by tapping into the carbon credit craze, so I don’t know what he would be upset about.
As I've said before, when gas and heating oil are $10 a gallon, people will burn radioactive baby seal oil to stay warm and to hell with the environment.
Does anybody know? Did he have any statement in the speech on how big of a battery we each would need to store electricity to use at midnight when there is no wind. Or do we just shut down the tv and the freezer and the pc? Also would we all have to buy DC to AC convertors for that power?
Inquiring minds want to know.
This idiot wants to shut down most electrical production in the USA and he wants non-environmentally friendly electric cars? Wow. Would we be permitted to plug these cars into candles, or is he going to ban them too?
Oh, and if Algore is so crazy about not polluting, then I think he should give up his private jet, his private cars and live without A/C in the summer in his posh Tennessee dacha.
An effective Republican party (please, try to hold your laughter to a dull roar) would use $4-plus gas and the inflation it’s unleashed to hammer the likes of Gore and Pelosi until they themselves contracted with a drilling company for a hole deep enough to crawl into and hide.
> Former Vice President Al Gore urged Congress not to overturn a federal ban on offshore drilling and complained that lawmakers are “being stampeded by lobbyists for special interests” eager to lift the moratorium.
Poor ol’ AlGore “The Inventor of the Internet”. He has worked so hard concocting “Global Warming” as the “Y2K-crisis” of this decade, and it could all go up in smoke if people became independent of Arab oil. Then where would AlGore be? Back to square one, no more speaker’s tours, no more carbon credits to help make him even richer...
Hey AlGore: can you say “Conflict-of-Interest”? I knew you could!
Why didnt this MORON put us on renewable energy when he cohabited the White House . What a Bunch of Hypocrits
Can't wait to see the price of corn when it hits the market up here......since some of the farmers...via huge grants...have built ethanol plants.
I am in the test phase of the wind powered car I’ve designed. The biggest problem so far is that all bridges crossing the roads are too low. The 150’ pedestal and the 75’ diameter blades just don’t do well with the 16’ average bridge.
I called Al Gore about this and next week he will announce that we need to rebuild all bridge and raise all utility cables cross roads to 250’ in 5 years.
I am also developing a fart powered rocket to put Al Gore on the moon by 2010. Not because it’s easy but because it’s necessary.
I’ll keep you all posted on both projects.
Keep in mind that this wouldn't apply to him or his commie friends. This would only apply to us serfs.
As I posted here earlier this week on another thread. The killowatt hours that this shyster uses in one month for ONE of his homes more than covers what I will use for the rest of my life (I'm 51) for my 1100 square foot attached townhouse.
I also have a fuel economy car, will never fly on a private airplane, will never own an SUV.
I also have a clothesline on my patio or hang up clothes inside on hangers to dry. I've yet to hear an enviro wacko lib talk about how we all need to go back to using clothes lines or say that they have one. (BTW, if any of you FReepers want to know where to purchase a clothesline or how to avoid hitting utility/phone/cable lines in your yard FReep mail me).
I know that God will judge me and its not something I'm especially looking forward to but Lord how I wish I could listen in when people like Gore, Carter, Kennedy, Kerry, the Klintoons go before Him!
(Former Vice President Al Gore urged Congress not to overturn a federal ban on offshore drilling and complained that lawmakers are “being stampeded by lobbyists for special interests” eager to lift the moratorium.)
WOW. I just got a new title. I am now a “lobbyist for special interest” instead of an American Taxpaying Citizen...
Hey Albore, STFU.....
What is the point of making it sound like Congress has to actually DO something to allow offshore drilling?
All Congress has to do is what they are best at, nothing. The offshore drilling ban will expire September 30 unless Congress reauthorizes it.
As general rule in life, do the opposite of what Al Gore recommends and you should do all right.
Seriously, why does the media listen to this guy? He was a government major in college and has no science background.
(An effective Republican party (please, try to hold your laughter to a dull roar) would use $4-plus gas and the inflation it’s )
Not fair. You say something extremely funny then ask us not to laugh........
There hasn’t been an effective Republican Party since the end of the Regan Presidency. OPh there was a little blip of what could be, with the Gingerich period but it did not last....
Talk about maintaining your special interests. Al Gore does not have a better or cheaper alternative to fossil fuels. The one source that shows promise, and with legislative encouragement could be started on within a couple of years, is nuclear power generation. With plentiful electricity, assuring a low price for each kilowatt produced, the electricity could be used to produce hydrogen on the spot at hydrogen filling stations, at a cost sufficiently low to encourage the adoption of fuel cells to power road vehicles. The “hydrogen economy” would then be possible.
People are not going to adopt ANYTHING, Al, unless it is CHEAPER than what is now being used. Merely making the price of what they are now using more expensive by making it more scarce, without offering a viable alternative, borders on the totally irresponsible and the foreshadowing of complete collapse of reasoning power.
The world is going to depend on carbon-based fuels for a very long time, partly because of its availability, and because carbon-based fuels take up very little volume in relation to the energy they contain. About the densest energy per pound of fuel is to be found in coal, or its derivative, coke (not the kind you chug or snort, Al).
When heated to roughly 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, in a non-oxygen atmosphere, and injected with a spray of water, the water (H2O) reacts with the carbon (C) in the coke, forming free hydrogen (H2, the diatomic molecule in which hydrogne normally exists) and carbon monoxide (CO), both of which are excellent fuels, and burn with a much hotter flame when introduced to oxygen than the burning of coke alone. This is the production of synthetic gas, once used to power industry and light homes back in the days of the “Gashouse Districts” of big cities.
The same trick has been used by metalsmiths, to generate the heat need to forge and heat-weld their products, and is demonstrated by getting the coke ignited, then with a blast of air forced through a bellows, a scoop of water is thrown on the glowing embers of coke. Instantly a very hot (hydrogen) flame arises from the bed of embers, which is much, much hotter than just what heat can be gotten from the glowing coke alone. This flame will melt steel, allowing it to be made malleable and formed as needed. The heat output will very nearly turn titanium into a puddle, and certainly makes it malleable as well.
Today’s Democrats remind me a lot of Marie Antoinette and her famous “let them eat cake” remark. The Dems say “let them go green”. Whatever happened to old Marie?
If he would just leave this earth, that would be one less carbon credit.
Does this idiot ever shut up?
Go to Hades Al, at least, there your warming crusade may have some meaning.
For two more examples of the totalitarian horrors, every bit as ghastly as a lot of what went on in the old Soviet Union, that Gore wantgs to impose on us, see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047953/posts
and
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047951/posts
With his “carbon credit” scam going in full gear, Gore has the money to pay 10 or 12 dollars for a gallon of gas. Those of us who work for a living don’t have that kind of money. He needs to shut up and take a hike.
I'm doing you one better for Gaia. I'm selling dog fart indulgences (Oops, carbon credits) for Beano tofeed my younger dog, who's right now under my esk farting. They're onlyh $100 apiece. So far no Freepers have taken me up on the idea. It's a great investment.
Pleas capture those dog farts. Dog farts are ideal for my fart powered rocket. They have a high concentration of methane. More than a cow fart and safer to use than a democrat fart (highly unstable and explosive).
I may be able to beat the 2010 date of putting Al on the moon if I can get enough dog farts.
Isn't Al now a "special interest lobbyist" himself?
My younger dog being half Pit Bull and weighing about 85 pounds, I’d really prefer that you come here with your collection apparatus and do the capturing on your own. I’ll only charge you $10.00/cubic foot.
“I’ve yet to hear an enviro wacko lib talk about how we all need to go back to using clothes lines or say that they have one.”
Oh, you must have missed it. Barbra Streisand made that recommendation a year or two ago (for us but not for her):
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32899
And Gore’s idea about a “sharp reduction in payroll taxes” is just loony, as if SS is not in bad enough shape after years of using the money for general fund purposes, and just as boomers are beginning to apply for SS.
Cars like this would be useless in most large cities where people live in apartments, park on the street or in parking structures since there is no outlet for them to plug into. It would be useless for cross country travel since a 'fill up' would take hours. In short, an electric car is good for nothing but a second car, in the suburbs, and only for comparatively short trips. So converting all auto construction to this is absolutely insane. But hey, we're talking Al Gore here.
That is a good price but my wind powered car doesn’t work well in the summer and the bridge issue is still there.
And the problem out in the sticks, where I live, comes when we get hit with a disaster that knocks out power for a couple of weeks, like a severe ice storm did me once. Well, I guess I could charge my electric car's bateries, by running a gas powered generator ;)
The analogy would be gliding in over a period of decades to a smooth and uneventful landing.
Continuing on the path you demand would be the same as our grandfathers insisting that all horses be destroyed c. 1900 because, 'obviously', the automobile was the way of the future - a hysterical over reaction our grandfathers would have considered lunacy.
'Switching' your way is analogous to spiraling into the ground a la United Flight 93 in months not decades from now.
H. L. Menken once wrote, “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” Gore is a master at this.
BTTT
Gee Al will it be OK if the Chinese drill off of our shores? You know what a fine record the Chinese have on the environment and don’t forget all those campaign funds the Chinese gave you.
To Gore, mere peasants do not need a tv, a freezer, a pc and certainly not a private car — electric or otherwise. Maybe he will allow you to own one solar-powered florescent lamp that can only be run during the day.
Global Scamming has turned him into a Gazillionaire and still needs more even if it sends us into a Depression. The second coming of Joseph Kennedy.
Pray for W and Our Troosp
I sure wish Gore would STFU!!!!
that pic in post 1 looks as if he is developmentally disabled.
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