Posted on 03/01/2007 2:10:35 AM PST by DaveTesla
This whole thing with global warming and its leading apostle Al Gore is just more of the political lefts 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 hes doing everything he doesnt 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 Bushs practices as a homeowner.
According to a story in the April 29, 2001, Chicago Tribune, Bush loves ecology -- at home, the presidents 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 hearts content, because hes 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 doesnt do solar, he doesnt use wind power, he doesnt change his lifestyle or go bio-diesel, he doesnt 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.
The grinning idiots of the left.
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the joke of this is that Algore is on the road all the time anyway
you see the guy giving speeches and receiving "awards" all over the world
so it's the hired help back on the plantation that are sucking up most of the kilowatts & btus, LOL
Al obviously doesn't put his computers in "hibernate" mode
Great data. That data is very similiar to the elite limo libs who own massive homes in N or S California like Redford, Pelosi, Fineswine, Babs and most of Follywood.
They have several massive homes, often for just two people. They have limos, big SUVs, private jets and fly first class on big jets. They use more carbon fuel in a week than most of us do in a year. Yet we are the polluters.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792973/posts
Let Them Eat Tofu! (Ann Coulter Ridicules Liberal Misanthropes Alert)
Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 02/28/2007 | Ann Coulter
Posted on 02/28/2007 4:00:33 PM PST by goldstategop
Even right-wingers who know that "global warming" is a crock do not seem to grasp what the tree-huggers are demanding. Liberals want mass starvation and human devastation.
Forget the lunacy of people claiming to tell us the precise temperature of planet Earth in 1918 based on tree rings. Or the fact that in the '70s liberals were issuing similarly dire warnings about "global cooling."
Simply consider what noted climatologists Al Gore and Melissa Etheridge are demanding that we do to combat their nutty conjectures about "global warming." They want us to starve the productive sector of fossil fuel and allow the world's factories to grind to a halt. This means an end to material growth and a cataclysmic reduction in wealth.
There are more reputable scientists defending astrology than defending "global warming," but liberals simply announce that the debate has been resolved in their favor and demand that we shut down all production.
They think they can live in a world of only Malibu and East Hampton with no Trentons or Detroits. It does not occur to them that someone has to manufacture the tiles and steel and glass and solar panels that go into those "eco-friendly" mansions, and someone has to truck it all to their beachfront properties, and someone else has to transport all the workers there to build it. (And then someone has to drive the fleets of trucks delivering the pachysandra and bottled water every day.)
Liberals are already comfortably ensconced in their beachfront estates, which they expect to be unaffected by their negative growth prescriptions for the rest of us.
There was more energy consumed in the manufacture, construction and maintenance of Leonardo DiCaprio's Malibu home than is needed to light the entire city of Albuquerque, where there are surely several men who can actually act. But he has solar panels to warm his house six degrees on chilly Malibu nights.
Liberals haven't the foggiest idea how the industrial world works. They act as if America could reduce its vast energy consumption by using fluorescent bulbs and driving hybrid cars rather than SUVs. They have no idea how light miraculously appears when they flick a switch or what allows them to go to the bathroom indoors in winter luxuries Americans are not likely to abandon because Leo DiCaprio had solar panels trucked into his Malibu estate.
Our lives depend on fossil fuel. Steel plants, chemical plants, rubber plants, pharmaceutical plants, glass plants, paper plants those run on energy. There are no Mother Earth nursery designs in stylish organic cotton without gas-belching factories, ships and trucks, and temperature-controlled, well-lighted stores. Windmills can't even produce enough energy to manufacture a windmill.
Because of the industrialization of agriculture using massive amounts of fossil fuel only 2 percent of Americans work in farming. And yet they produce enough food to feed all 300 million Americans, with plenty left over for export. When are liberals going to break the news to their friends in Darfur that they all have to starve to death to save the planet?
"Global warming" is the left's pagan rage against mankind. If we can't produce industrial waste, then we can't produce. Some of us not the ones with mansions in Malibu and Nashville is my guess are going to have to die. To say we need to reduce our energy consumption is like saying we need to reduce our oxygen consumption.
Liberals have always had a thing about eliminating humans. Stalin wanted to eliminate the kulaks and Ukrainians, vegetarian atheist Adolf Hitler wanted to eliminate the Jews, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger wanted to eliminate poor blacks, DDT opponent Rachel Carson wanted to eliminate Africans (introduction to her book "Silent Spring" written by ... Al Gore!), and population-control guru Paul Ehrlich wants to eliminate all humans.
But global warming is the most insane, psychotic idea liberals have ever concocted to kill off "useless eaters." If we have to live in a pure "natural" environment like the Indians, then our entire transcontinental nation can only support about 1 million human beings. Sorry, fellas 299 million of you are going to have to go.
Proving that the "global warming" campaign is nothing but hatred of humanity, these are the exact same people who destroyed the nuclear power industry in this country 30 years ago.
If we accept for purposes of argument their claim that the only way the human race can survive is with clean energy that doesn't emit carbon dioxide, environmentalists waited until they had safely destroyed the nuclear power industry to tell us that. This proves they never intended for us to survive.
"Global warming" is the liberals' stalking horse for their ultimate fantasy: The whole U.S. will look like Amagansett, with no one living in it except their even-tempered maids (for "diversity"), themselves and their coterie (all, presumably, living in solar-heated mansions, except the maids who will do without electricity altogether). The entire fuel-guzzling, tacky, beer-drinking, NASCAR-watching middle class with their over-large families will simply have to die.
It seems not to have occurred to the jet set that when California is as poor as Mexico, they might have trouble finding a maid. Without trucking, packaging, manufacturing, shipping and refrigeration in their Bel-Air fantasy world, they'll be chasing the rear end of an animal every time their stomachs growl and killing small animals for pelts to keep their genitals warm
Is that Greener World Media, Inc?
"They have several massive homes, often for just two people. They have limos, big SUVs, private jets and fly first class on big jets. They use more carbon fuel in a week than most of us do in a year. Yet we are the polluters."
>>No one said that WE are the polluters.
The whole worls must try to reduce c02 pollution:
Industry, privates and of course politicians too"
When he says he "buys" carbon credits, he's probably talking about his purchase of the futures, which will go sky high if regulations are enacted to use the credit system.
Hmmmm, maybe I ought to go out and buy some.
Everytime I put money in that kind of stuff the bottom drops out of the market and dies. LOL???
O.K. ...but combined with his pool, each of his rooms consumes as much electricity and gas as an average house/household. Does he have 20 families living in his house?
Interesting news about the ranch house in Crawford. Good for Bush.
"O.K. ...but combined with his pool, each of his rooms consumes as much electricity and gas as an average house/household. Does he have 20 families living in his house?"
>>I don´t know how much people live in his house and i really dont mind. A Big House has big rooms with a lot of lamps and high ceilings.
For Gores effort to wake people up and mind the upcoming global problems we should give him a bit more respect.
To me, this is just a dirt campaign from a certain group after he won the oscar for the movie...simple but true. I ask myself: Have these people not other far more significant things to do?
There is one key and very evil person behind the latest Global Warming BS.
That person is George $oreA$$!. He is betting on global warming legislation with his hedge funds, and he is probably financing Al Gore and the other Global Warming alarmists in the Congress and across this country.
Go to this search link on $oreA$$ and Global Warming to see the reality behind this latest big left wing scare tactic to weaken America.
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?fr=ybr_sbc&p=Soros%20and%20Global%20Warming
Sir, your logic is empecable. Indeed the UN will tax us all bases on everything carbon.
"What do you know! The Liberals and the U.N. came up with a way to tax every living thing on the planet."
In 2004 even the pentagon warned of the risks of the climate change. It will cost us far more tax money than doing something against it
Gore's 'Carbon Offsets' Paid to Firm He Owns.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1794519/posts?page=19
Gore OWNS and CHAIRS the company wher he gets these OFFSETS!! Sweet!! Is it LEGAL??
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