Posted on 03/21/2007 1:45:06 PM PDT by Dirtysnowbank
GORE REFUSES TO TAKE PERSONAL ENERGY ETHICS PLEDGE
WASHINGTON, DC Former Vice President Al Gore refused to take a Personal Energy Ethics Pledge today to consume no more energy than the average American household. The pledge was presented to Gore by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, during todays global warming hearing.
Senator Inhofe showed Gore a film frame from An Inconvenient Truth where it asks viewers: Are you ready to change the way you live?
Gore has been criticized for excessive home energy usage at his residence in Tennessee. His electricity usage is reportedly 20 times higher than the average American household.
It has been reported that many of these so-called carbon offset projects would have been done anyway. Also, carbon offset projects such as planting trees can take decades or even a century to sequester the carbon emitted today. So energy usage today results in greenhouse gases remaining in the atmosphere for decades, even with the purchase of so-called carbon offsets.
There are hundreds of thousands of people who adore you and would follow your example by reducing their energy usage if you did. Dont give us the run-around on carbon offsets or the gimmicks the wealthy do, Senator Inhofe told Gore.
Are you willing to make a commitment here today by taking this pledge to consume no more energy for use in your residence than the average American household by one year from today? Senator Inhofe asked.
Senator Inhofe then presented Vice President Gore with the following "Personal Energy Ethics Pledge:
Cl As a believer: · that human-caused global warming is a moral, ethical, and spiritual issue affecting our survival;
· that home energy use is a key component of overall energy use;
· that reducing my fossil fuel-based home energy usage will lead to lower greenhouse gas emissions; and
· that leaders on moral issues should lead by example;
I pledge to consume no more energy for use in my residence than the average American household by March 21, 2008.
Gore refused to take the pledge.
See Senator Inhofes Opening Statement from todays hearing
Back to your fields peasant!!
Thanks....
Thanks to all. Now I get it. I don't watch South Park, but maybe I should!
If this scam is playing out as others have played out before it, Algore sees himself as 'leadership' and, therefore, not accountable to the same standards as the rest of us ordinary, common folk. If Algore had to live by all of the restrictions that he proposes for the rest of us, global warming would lose his support over night! Algore is a fraud. And he was always a fraud. That anyone takes him seriously today is mind-boggling!
That wasn't Manbearpig - that was the Big Muddy Monster.
Gore looks stoned.Is he still on psychiatric drugs?
Gore: "The Er.. urth has a fever"
Upon hearing this, the drug companies told the committee they have been working on a solution, they are making eight ton aspirin's they plan to disperse by aircraft in all the oceans worldwide.
I don't see why he wouldn't, none of his supporters would expect him to keep it anyway.
It's hard to tell who is more pathetic, Owl Whore or the "people who adore" him.
Al Gore is so conflicted that he is a walking OXYmoron.
"That anyone takes him seriously today is mind-boggling!"
The liberal mind does not boggle. They are unbending believers. The problem is, their God is government, which they believe in just as the Christian right believes in God, the creator.
Yep. There's no "controlling legal authority". Algore wants the job.
Excellent
Carbonista Gore the almost president, almost tells the truth<:o))
Not only is he selling 'indulgences,' but he is also peddling a Carbon Tax to Congress. Hillary was practically drooling as she was talking to him about the subject.
Hang on to your wallets, folks. This is going to hurt!
"Saving energy is for little people! I can AFFORD to buy Carbon Credit Absolution!!"-St AlGore
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