The Al Gore personal cyclotron / time machine?
Posted on 03/03/2007 6:52:00 AM PST by kellynla
Al Gore defends his extraordinary personal energy usage by telling critics he maintains a "carbon neutral" lifestyle by buying "carbon offsets," but the company that receives his payments turns out to be partly owned and chaired by the former vice president himself.
Gore has built a "green 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," writes blogger Dan Riehl.
Gore has described the lifestyle he and his wife Tipper live as "carbon neutral," meaning he tries to offset any energy usage, including plane flights and car trips, by "purchasing verifiable reductions in CO2 elsewhere."
But it turns out he pays for his extra-large carbon footprint through Generation Investment Management, a London-based company with offices in Washington, D.C., for which he serves as chairman. The company was established to take financial advantage of new technologies and solutions related to combating "global warming," reports blogger Bill Hobbs.
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Generation Investment Management's U.S. branch is headed by a former Gore staffer and fund-raiser, Peter S. Knight, who once was the target of probes by the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice.
Hobbs points out Gore stands to make a lot of money from his promotion of the alleged "global warming" threat, which is disputed by many mainstream scientists.
"In other words, he 'buys' his 'carbon offsets' from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself," Hobbs writes. "To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy 'carbon offsets' through Generation Investment Management – he buys stocks."
As WND reported, Gore, whose film warning of a coming cataclysm due to man-made "global warming" won two Oscars, has a mansion in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville that consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, citing data from the Nashville Electric Service.
The think tanks says since the release of Gore's film, the former presidential candidate's energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kilowatt-hours per month in 2005, to 18,400 per month in 2006.
Oooh yeah. And it's not over a fire.
This story continues to provide so much amusement, but now I have to leave again or my parents will be here and I won't be ready.
Holy Cow! Where do I sign up?
Here in Tx electricity is expensive.
At one time I had a little 1000 sq ft town house and I was sent to Az for an extended period of time.
I turned every thing off except the water heater and fridge.
The resulting bill was still $75 a month!
Headline: BIG FOOT creature identified!
You live in a board?
The pretentious buffoon Gore remains desperate for attention, and I think he is perfectly suited as the point man for the global warming scam.
No, and they won't be talking about it. The word today is "fagot".
Amen...just like the Dot Com companies....just AIR...nothing there....SCAMS!!!
I know! They have their panties all in a twist over Ann's comment L0L
Mine will probably go up next month, as my electric company is usually a month or two behind. Even my father thought it was a little extreme, cuz my folks live across the yard, and dad said that for a few days he kept looking out their window and it was dark over here. He came over one day to check on me, and he said I thought you were either dead or you sleep all the time. LOL
Preachers who issue pious declarations and admonish the immoral behavior of others and are then caught trolling for whores on the streets of New Orleans as Jimmy Swaggart was are rightly attacked as hypocrites and poseurs.
Al Gore has been outed......as the Jimmy Swaggart of Climate Change
L0L I tend to be a bit of a caveman myself L0L
John Edwards is gonna have to get right w/the glowbull warming craze and buy some of them carbon offset credits for that BIG house of his if he wants liberals' votes.
bump
Hold the sobbing, Al baby!
Makes me feel good knowing I'm doing more to save the environment than Algore and Lil' Johnny Edwards.
Algore IS Big Oil since Armand Hammer of occidental PETROLEUM was his family's backer!
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