The Inconvenient Truth About Al Gore

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | March 1, 2007 | Michael Reagan

[DaveTesla]

This whole thing with global warming and its leading apostle Al Gore is just more of the political left’s habit of talking the talk but never walking the walk.

Gore has proven time and again to be a complete hypocrite. He preaches the need to eliminate man-made pollution. On his website advising people to fight global warming by discovering what their so-called carbon footprint is, he says, “You may be surprised by how much CO2 you are emitting each year,” and advises that you should “calculate your personal impact and learn how you can take action to reduce or even eliminate your emissions of carbon dioxide.”

Mr. Gore, however, does not practice what he preaches. He wants you to curb your lifestyle drastically, but on the record he’s doing everything he doesn’t want you to do, and doing it extravagantly.

Consider his house in Tennessee. According to The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, Nashville Electric Services records obtained by the Center show the Gores in 2006 averaged a monthly electricity bill of $1,359 for using 18,414 kilowatt-hours, and $1,461 per month for using 16,200 kilowatt-hours in 2005.

Over the past two years, the gas and electric bills for his 20-room mansion and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.

Nashville Gas Company billed the family during the same period an average of $536 a month for the main house and $544 for the pool house in 2006, and $640 for the main house and $525 for the pool house in 2005. That averages out to be $29,268 in gas and electric bills for the Gores in 2006, $31,512 in 2005.

"If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility bills, I wouldn't care," says Drew Johnson, the Center's 27-year-old president. "But he tells other people how to live and he's not following his own rules."

Compare this with President Bush’s practices as a homeowner.

According to a story in the April 29, 2001, Chicago Tribune, “Bush loves ecology -- at home,” the president’s house is a model of ecological purity.

“The 4,000-square-foot house is a model of environmental rectitude, wrote freelance reporter Rob Sullivan. “Geothermal heat pumps located in a central closet circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet deep in the ground where the temperature is a constant 67 degrees; the water heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. Systems such as the one in this ‘eco-friendly’ dwelling use about 25 percent of the electricity that traditional heating and cooling systems utilize.

“A 25,000-gallon underground cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof runs; wastewater from sinks, toilets and showers goes into underground purifying tanks and is also funneled into the cistern. The water from the cistern is used to irrigate the landscaping surrounding the four-bedroom home. Plants and flowers native to the high prairie area blend the structure into the surrounding ecosystem.”

Gore talks the talk, the president walks the walk.

Gore and his leftist buddies pat themselves on the back and tell us what they think we ought to be doing, but they are not going to follow the rules they lay down for us.

Al Gore excuses his own excesses by saying he is buying "carbon credits," to offset his massive use of electric power and jet planes.

Buying "carbon credits" allows him to pollute to his heart’s content, because he’s adopted a "carbon neutral" life whereby any emissions for which he is personally responsible are allegedly offset by buying “green credits” such as parcels of forests that eat up CO2.

He doesn’t do solar, he doesn’t use wind power, he doesn’t change his lifestyle or go bio-diesel, he doesn’t do any of the things he insists the rest of us must do to save the planet from being barbecued -- he just buys carbon credits and goes on his merry way spewing pollution in all directions.

This is so outrageously asinine on its face; it alone should awaken the American people to the fact that they are being had by Mr. Gore and his fellow global warming fanatics. Instead of getting an Oscar Sunday night, he should have been laughed off the stage.

[DaveTesla]

$500.00 a month to heat his swimming pool.

Champagne, caviar and carbon are for the mega rich and elite.

[mgist]

This is the first time I've heard about President Bush's ecologically friendly home.

[Always Right]

Another funny thing, these so-callrd carbon credits are bought off a company Gore owns.

[Pontiac]

Instead of getting an Oscar Sunday night, he should have been laughed off the stage.

Instead the fools in the audience smiled and nodded their agreement as Rev Al spouted the Gospel of Gia.

People get the leaders they deserve and these people got Al. What fools these mortals be!

[melsec]

Big Al's carbon footprint is the size of Texas ... no sorry that is his arse!

[Dallas59]

Screw Gore before he and his rich Rat friends screw us...

[syriacus]

Luckily for Al (The Macabre Baron) Gore, Tennessee has warmed over the millennia.

If it weren't for previous global warming, Tennessee would be much cooler and families like Gore's would be living in caves and hunting mastodon. (Description of Tennessee life, 11,000 years ago,taken from the Tennessee State History web pages)

[angkor]

should awaken the American people to the fact that they are being had by Mr. Gore and his fellow global warming fanatic

Manbearpig.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Ohhh I get it - the re going to tax us for being alive.

[BlessedBeGod]

Global Warming Ping!

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Does anyone actually know what a “carbon footprint” is, and does anyone care?

(No, I’m not being nasty. I’m really just sitting here laughing to myself.)

[raybbr]

Funny that no one talks about the drivel that is the second part of Bob Sullivan's story.

From the Tribune story:

This is President George W. Bush's "Texas White House" outside the small town of Crawford.

Yes, the same George W. who believes arsenic and drinking water might not be such a bad combo, the same man who reneged on his campaign promise to lower carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, the same man who is doing everything in his power to fling open the Alaskan Natural Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

How does the President reconcile an eco-friendly abode for his own family with his persistent stand against anything that smacks of an environmentally friendly agenda for the nation as a whole? The answer to that perplexing question is a real mystery. Perhaps sound ecological practices are only for those who can afford them: as a self-proclaimed strict constructionist of the U.S. Constitution, Bush must be aware that clean air and clean water are not guaranteed in that glorious document. Perhaps in Bush's Brave New Corporate World, clean natural resources are merely commodities in a free-market economy: if you can pay for them, fine; if not, tough. The rest of us will just have to put up with more toxic dumps and more public lands being turned over to logging, mining and oil companies.

According to David Heymann, the house's architect and associate dean of the University of Texas architecture department, Heymann designed the house so that "every room has a relationship with something in the landscape that's different from the room next door. Each of the rooms feels like a slightly different place."

In a USA Today interview, Heymann said, "There's a great grove of oak trees to the west that protects it from the late afternoon sun. Then there is a view out to the north looking at hills, and to the east out over a lake, and the view to the south . . . out to beautiful hills."

I suppose in George W.'s architectural world only the rich and powerful have views; vistas that the public owns as part of its shared heritage are up for lease and sale.

Heymann also termed the house "stunningly small." Really? Would it be stunningly small for a single mother in South Central Los Angeles? How stunningly small would it be for an immigrant Latino family in San Antonio Maybe in the rarified heights where second homes are the norm, 4,000 square feet is small and on a stunning scale as well, but in Main Street America that much elbow room is pretty big for the first and only home.

But then most of us can't reconcile what might at first glance appear to be inherently irreconcilable. Maybe some day, like our noble president, we will be able to make that kind of staggering mental feat. That is, if we ever stop misunderestimating ourselves.

Rob Sullivan is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles.

What complete moron. Chastizing Bush for being ecologically friendly because he's got money?

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

"Big Al's carbon footprint is the size of Texas ... no sorry that is his arse!"

And that is where his fat head is tucked.

[libs_kma]

Some lefty wrote an article yesterday that said Conservatives just don't understand the concept of buying carbon credits.

I think we understand it just fine. We understand that it's a big crock of shiite.

[SkyPilot]

"You may be surprised by how much CO2 you are emitting each year,”

I find this so laughable for a myriad of reasons.

The main one is this:

- Back in the days when Gore and Tipper would ride around on Air Force 2, the 89th Special Airlift Missions (SAM) folks at Andrews AFB had a little nickname of Albert.

Stinky

Gore, you see, was known for being very, very, very flatulent. Deadly flatulent. Awful, nose burning, eyes watering terrible gas. I know this because I knew several of the pilots and also other members of the aircrew.

They all said the same thing - Al Gore was the worst gas passer in history.

Since that air had to be released to the upper atmosphere via the bleed air circulation system of the aircraft, I guess we say his methane emission contributed to ozone depletion and helped increase Global Warming.

By the way, the whole "Global Warming" religion is pure paganism. It is a religion to these moonbats who don't know the real God.

"They have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creation more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen."

Romans 1:25

[Beckwith]

Some lefty wrote an article yesterday that said Conservatives just don't understand the concept of buying carbon credits.

Smokescreen -- he still uses 20 times more energy. That he places his home in the registry doesn't change that fact.

His gas bill is well over $1,000 per month as well.

He remains an energy glutton and environmental fraud despite the bureaucratic bookkeeping.

[ryan71]

"...he just buys carbon credits and goes on his merry way spewing pollution in all directions."

He's making a boat-load of money, too. You forgot that.

[xcamel]

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[midway]

So Al Gore is an energy glutton but it's OK because he buys carbon credits.

Now let's turn to the case of the Hollywood libs who are being knocked for hypocrisy for their jet-set ways, the most extreme being Travolta and his personal 707.

I have the solution. They can pay lots of ordinary folks to NOT fly when they go on vacation.

[Northern Yankee]

Al Gore excuses his own excesses by saying he is buying "carbon credits," to offset his massive use of electric power and jet planes.

What horsesh*t.

The new buzzword that doesn't mean a damned thing. Either you live with a conservation ethic or you don't. None of this other garbage.

Typical of liberalism. They'll invent something that is meaningless, and then use it to blugeon others with it.