Several years after Gore’s movie, I watched it. My take-away was sinply this- he was not wel connected to the capitalistic system producing oil/NG and coal energy products/infrastructure, so his intention was to simply help change the paradigm of reliance on petro fuels and ove towards an ew industrial base - one that required significant leverage of the existing manufacturing/resource base to move to another -making products that cost more, are less reliable and produce much less output than the input required or gained form employing them in the market place. Wind, solar and bio sources/machines to produce energy.
He was simpy getting in the ground floor of his idea of a paradigm that required oil as both resource and energy to produce less efficient more costly machines and power supplies-
Indeed, he was a capitalists’ capitalist with a twist, using the government (aka social justice/environment etc) to obtain the money (other people’s money of course) to become a major/broker owner in the new industry. Commodities like electricity, industry like solar and wind machinery, bio fuel development and use. He was/is just being a businessman, unlike most, has the hand of government to feed his investment portfolio.
It never was about inexpensive,efficient use or generation of power, just about investment sponsored/dictated by a “save the whales/environment” government gone awry.
What Gore's goal was, was to validate the useless, invented and fictitious "energy credit" and get rich from it.
EPIC FAIL!!
But lots and lots of suckers lost hundreds of millions$... by the time Gore bailed.