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Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe
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Posted on 08/10/2006 7:41:25 AM PDT by rellimpank

--link to great article on the hypocrite Algore--

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: algore; carbonneutral; energy; gore; hypocrite; oil
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--not quite sure on posting vanities but here goes--
1 posted on 08/10/2006 7:41:25 AM PDT by rellimpank
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To: rellimpank

Don't worry, this isn't a vanity posting.


2 posted on 08/10/2006 7:43:33 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: rellimpank

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm


3 posted on 08/10/2006 7:44:33 AM PDT by The Mayor ( http://albanysinsanity.com/)
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To: rellimpank

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm

Here's a working link. Good find.


4 posted on 08/10/2006 7:45:19 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Crazier than a rattlesnake at a Thai wedding)
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To: rellimpank

One hint would be to give it a title with a bit more information about the content or topic to be discussed.

One-word titles don't usually convey quite enough information.


5 posted on 08/10/2006 7:45:37 AM PDT by Xenalyte (who is having the best day ever!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; The Mayor

---thanks---- I'm on a weak wi-fi sloooowwww link due to the Sturgis Bike Rally and my link didn't post right--


6 posted on 08/10/2006 7:47:25 AM PDT by rellimpank (Don't believe anything about firearms or explosives stated by the mass media---NRABenefactor)
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To: rellimpank

I read this article - what a complete fraud - think Katie Couric will run a story about this as part of her "hard hitting" news approach at CBS?

No waaaaaaaaaaaay.


7 posted on 08/10/2006 7:48:28 AM PDT by GianniV
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To: rellimpank

When Gore was VP, he did practically nothing for the environment. He engaged in activities that were anti-environment.


8 posted on 08/10/2006 7:49:52 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: rellimpank

Bookmark


9 posted on 08/10/2006 7:51:21 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Hurricane season 2006 - Be prepared and have a plan)
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To: rellimpank
Talk about inconvenient truths.

Ooooh that smarts. I love it. Can't believe this came from the "USSR Today".

10 posted on 08/10/2006 7:51:30 AM PDT by thepatriot1 (...brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue)
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Gore and Big Oil

Former Vice President, Al Gore has a long-time relationship with Occidental Petroleum that has been enormously beneficial to the company. Occidental's late chairman, the controversial Armand Hammer, liked to say that he had Gore's father, Senator Albert Gore, Senior, "in my back pocket." When the elder Gore left the Senate in 1970, Hammer hired him for $500,000 a year. Personally and professionally the vice president has profited from Occidental largess. To this day he still draws $20,000 a year from a land deal in Tennessee brokered between his father and Hammer. The total amount is more than $300,000. The personal relationship between young Gore and Hammer was very close throughout the 1980's, including trips on Hammer's private jet and constant campaign contributions.

For most of the 20th century, oil companies have tried unsuccessfully to obtain control of two oil fields owned and operated by the federal government: the Teapot Dome field in Casper, Wyoming, and the Elk Hills field in Bakersfield, California. Despite his public reputation as a staunch environmentalist, Gore recommended that the president approve giving oil companies access to this publicly owned land. It is land that the U.S. Navy has held as emergency reserves since 1912. In October, 1997, the Energy Department announced that the government would sell 47,000 acres of the Elk Hills reserve to Occidental.

It was the largest privatization of federal property in U.S. history, one that tripled Occidental's U.S. oil reserves overnight. Although the Energy Department was required to assess the likely environmental consequences of the proposed sale, it didn't. Instead it hired a private company, ICF Kaiser International, Incorporated, to complete the assessment. The general chairman of Gore's presidential campaign, Tony Coelho, sat on the board of directors.

The very same day the Elk Hills sale was announced, Gore delivered a speech to the White House Conference on Climate Change on the "terrifying prospect" of global warming, a problem he blamed on the unchecked use of fossil fuels such as oil. He said, quoting, "If we ignore the scientific warnings and continue stubbornly on our current course, we better begin to prepare what we would like to say to our children and grandchildren. They might fairly ask, if you knew all that, why didn't you do something about it?"

Gore and Tobacco

At the Democratic national convention in 1996, Gore gave a moving speech about his only sister's painful death from lung cancer. And since then he has pushed the administration's aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

What Gore didn't mention is that he grew up on a tobacco farm, worked on it, and continued to accept checks from that farm for years after his sister died. In 1988, while running for president, he defended tobacco farmers while campaigning in Southern tobacco states (and made the quote up above: 'I've raised tobacco ... I've shredded it, spiked it,... and sold it.') He accepted contributions from tobacco companies as late as 1990.

Gore claimed that "emotional numbness" led him to defend and profit from the tobacco industry. "Sometimes, you never fully face up to things that you ought to face up to."
Gore himself smoked during college.

Gore and Environmentalism

The Pigeon River is in North Carolina and east Tennessee. The Champion International paper mill has pumped tons of chemicals and byproducts into it for years, turning it the color of coffee and adding a sulfurish smell. Gore campaigned against this pollution and lobbied the EPA to crack down. But in 1987, as Gore started running for president the first time, he was pressured by 2 politicians whose support he craved for the North Carolina Super Tuesday primary. Terry Sanford (then a Senator) and Jamie Clarke (North Carolina congressmen) lobbied him hard to ease up on Champion. Gore did, writing to the EPA, again and again, asking for a more permissive water pollution standard. Sanford and Clarke endorsed him, and Gore won the state handily.

Another example is a Gore family property that has been mined for zinc and germanium for decades. The Vice-President and his dad, the late Senator Albert Gore, Sr., obtained the land in a very favorable deal with the late Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum. Gore, Sr. was heavily supported by Hammer financially, and carried his water in the U.S. Senate.

Back in 1972, when zinc was discovered across the river from the Gore family land in Carthage, TN, Hammer sent engineers out and offered $20,000 per year for a mineral rights lease on some property owned by a church that had been willed the land. Instead, they wanted to sell and Hammer won a bidding war to buy the land for $160,000. He then sold it to Gore Jr. and Sr. for the same amount, and immediately started leasing the land back from him for the same $20,000. Lynwood Burkhalter, who in the 70s was president of the company that assumed this lease from Occidental Petroleum, called the payments "extraordinarily large."

Mining is, of course, a very messy business environmentally. The mine itself hasn't been that bad. Republicans have claimed that it's polluting the local drinking water, but according to the Wall Street Journal those problems "are actually very minor." However, the Journal notes that the plant in Clarksville TN, which processes the Gore minerals, is a federal Superfund site contaminated with cadmium and mercury, posing "a threat to the human food chain."

There's also a damning quote about cutting down Yew trees to make a promising cancer treatment that we used to include in our Gore quotes section. Except that the really embarrassing part -- which we got from an editorial in the Austin, Texas American Statesman -- turns out to be distorted and out of context. The full quote, which is still a little odd, is:

"The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die. It seems an easy choice -- sacrifice the tree for a human life -- until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated, that only specimens more than a hundred years old contain the potent chemical in their bark, and that there are very few of these yews remaining on earth." - Gore, in "Earth in the Balance", p. 119
11 posted on 08/10/2006 7:52:49 AM PDT by Beckwith (The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: rellimpank; doug from upland
And another infamous Environmentalist Hypocrite, Bobby Kennedy Jr., who doesn't want the Cape Wind project built near his Nantucket Mansion.
12 posted on 08/10/2006 7:54:43 AM PDT by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: rellimpank

I just posted it in my blog for all NYers to read...
http://albanysinsanity.com/?p=342


13 posted on 08/10/2006 7:56:20 AM PDT by The Mayor ( http://albanysinsanity.com/)
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--one of the better indictments of the Gore family is in Dossier --a biography of Armand Hammer, although a bit dated now--
14 posted on 08/10/2006 7:56:50 AM PDT by rellimpank (Don't believe anything about firearms or explosives stated by the mass media---NRABenefactor)
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Just another junky!

He goes into detox and comes out an environmentalist with a destroyed voice box.
15 posted on 08/10/2006 7:59:42 AM PDT by Beckwith (The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: rellimpank
Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe

Or as smart...

Or as good-looking...

Could we play "Six Degrees of AlGoration"?

16 posted on 08/10/2006 8:05:30 AM PDT by George Smiley (This tagline has been Reutered. (Can you tell?))
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To: rellimpank; Tijeras_Slim; JoeSixPack1

You're at Sturgis? How is it?

The Hollister Rally didn't happen this year due to a few jackasses causing increased law enforcement costs at last year's rally. < |:(~


17 posted on 08/10/2006 8:09:40 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: rellimpank

This is a dated by quite detailed account of the Gore family's relationship with Armand Hammer and Occidental Petroleum that continues to this day.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20000522/silverstein


18 posted on 08/10/2006 8:09:45 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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To: Beckwith

How did a;gore amass a $100m fortuen working in government. He must make Jesse Jackson look like an apprentice extortionist.


19 posted on 08/10/2006 8:11:27 AM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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20 posted on 08/10/2006 8:15:33 AM PDT by Main Street (Stuck in traffic)
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