Posted on 03/02/2007 10:52:25 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
As Newsbusters reported here, here and here, there are huge dollars to be made from global warming alarmism. However, conceivably no one is better positioned to financially benefit from this scam than Dr. Global Warming himself...Al Gore.
...Former Vice President Al Gore has built a Gree money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including himself, but he set it up so that the average Joe can't afford to play on Gore's terms. And the US portion is headed up by a former Gore staffer and fund raiser who previously ran afoul of both the FEC and the DOJ...
...[H]ow Gore buys his "carbon offsets," as revealed by The Tennessean raises serious questions. According to the newspapers report, Gore buys his carbon offsets through Generation Investment Management:
Gore helped found Generation Investment Management, through which he and others pay for offsets...
Gore is Chairman of the firm, and presumably, draws an income or will make money as its investments prosper. In other words, he "buys" his "carbon offsets" from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investment and return a profit to himself...
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It seems that the emperor indeed has no clothes.
Rush just did a whole segment on this very thing a few minutes ago. Not only is big Al buying from himself but they do not sell to anyone else. This guy should be in a cell right next to Randy Cunningham.
He has no brain, either.
Ignoring the carbon offset business, this is just Al Gore setting up an investment company which he chairs and is putting money into. On its surface there is no funny business there. Since carbon offsets are not a required purchase, but merely a way of liberals asserting their Smug, at most Gore can be accused of is gross hypocrisy in pretending to do something for the earth while merely shuffling money into his own portfolio. If hypocrisy was a crime, just about everyone in DC from both parties would be in jail (not that there's anything wrong with that).
Yes, but will anyone else notice. That is the question.
I think we see why Al's not going to run again-- this'd come out in a minute, especially if he got in the Hildebeast's way...
NO wonder he not going to run for president, he has so many fingers in so many pies, he would be nailed, period.
AlGore will go to jail the same day that Sandy Burglar does....
In other words.....never
"So Mr. Al, you really gonna pay me carbon offsense for not farting?"
As much as Gore is against CO2, I'm against nonsense spouted by aging politicians. I think politicians should be limited to a small, fixed quantity of nonsense in any given year. If they exceed this quota, they should be required to purchase Nonsense Offset Credits from people who haven't used up their quota.
I wonder if carbon offsets might be a better investment for my retirement than tulips?
Tree-planting companies: Would they be much different than what The Goron is doing?
Gore, Rockefeller, Snowe, and so on, I don't doubt the list of poitians and money-brokers involved in capitalizing on global warming. I guarantee Rockefeller has his private equity clowns involved in some of these junk investments. What troubles me is the extent to which this political husters are willing to extert political "pressure" on legitimate companies like Exxon.
AlGore and his global warming/global dimming nonsense is one big liberal power grabbing scam.
Here are some suggestions for Al Gore to buy real carbon off-sets, as published on Opinion Journal, Best of the Web:
Our item yesterday on Al Gore's "carbon offset" scheme leads reader Tom Tyson to make the former vice president an offer:
I've recently been car shopping. My wife really likes the Toyota Prius, and it sure is a very nice car. I certainly don't object to getting better gas mileage. The only problem is that we can get a Matrix--another very nice car of similar size--for $5,000 less. If Al is interested, I'd be happy to sell him some carbon offsets for $5,000 and then go and buy the Prius!
Feel free to send Al my email address.
Mr. Gore, the ball is in your court. Reader Dan Carter takes the idea a step further:
With all of the concern about carbon "footprint" these days, I've decided to start my own carbon offset business to help the wealthy feel less guilty about their extravagance. Perhaps you would be kind enough to publicize my venture.
My business model is to don the hair shirt of self-denial in exchange for cash payment so that my clients can lead fuller, more enriching lives without worrying about carbon dioxide. And, just so there's no question about the validity of the offset, I'm not building wind farms or giving away fluorescent light bulbs. No, I'm offering to forgo real pleasures so that others may enjoy them.
A few examples from my brochure:
Want to fly to Paris in your Gulfstream? Hey, who doesn't--but the kind of CO2 emissions from a trip like that will come back to haunt you when global warming hits. But what if you persuaded someone else to cancel a similar trip? That's where I come in: For a modest fee of $10,000, I won't fly to Paris on a Gulfstream this spring, so your trip will be carbon-neutral, and you can stroll guilt-free along the Champs Elysées.
Though it's getting tougher and tougher to impress the ladies with a car these days, they still swoon for something really exclusive, like the $1.4 million Bugatti Veyron. But how can you sell your commitment to the Earth when you're behind the wheel of a 1,000-horsepower machine that, at its top speed of 230 mph, sucks up 26 gallons of gas in just 12 minutes? Easy. Let me do the conserving in a three-year-old Camry while you get busy in the Bugatti. For $70,000--just a 5% premium over sticker price--I won't buy a Veyron at any time in the next five years.
Household electrical usage is in the news this week after we learned that a prominent Democrat spends 10 times the U.S. average on his electric bill. Of course, more electricity means more fuel burned in a power plant and more CO2 spewed into the air, and that's just the kind of attention you don't need. So what are you going to do about that fabulous 2,500-square-foot addition you just got back from the architects? Quit fretting and tell the builder to get started! Your added carbon footprint will be neutralized because, for $25,000, I'll scratch my add-on plans for 10 years.
With some cooperation and ingenuity, we can be back in the Little Ice Age in no time!
This is such a great idea, it's almost too good to be true!
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