Posted on 07/05/2007 5:12:08 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Al Gore Defends Arrested Son's Carbon Offset Strategy
by Scott Ott
(2007-07-05) — Al Gore, the concert organizer and former U.S. vice president, today defended his son, Al III, after the younger Gore’s arrest for speeding and drug possession, applauding his use of the hybrid Toyota Prius to offset the carbon emissions of his smoking marijuana.
“Even at 100 miles per hour,” said the elder Mr. Gore, “the Prius produces less deadly greenhouse gas than a Lincoln Navigator or a Hummer. While I don’t condone getting caught with marijuana, I would venture to say that my boy’s total carbon footprint is still substantially smaller than the median for his socioeconomic and age brackets.”
The former presidential candidate, still considered a possible contender for the 2008 Democrat nomination, is about to take center stage at the global LIVE EARTH concerts this weekend.
Mr. Gore helped organize LIVE EARTH to dramatize the plight of the planet by having hundreds of thousands of people burn millions of gallons of carbon-based fuel to travel to eight locations worldwide where they’ll communally exhale billions of cubic yards of carbon dioxide, generate hundreds of tons of human and artificial waste and expend untold kilowatt hours of electricity.
“People don’t realize how bad they are for the planet,” he said. “But when we’re all together at these concert locations, it will paint a picture of horrifying waste and environmental devastation. We’re hoping people will see it, wake up and say, ‘We have to stop doing this!’.”
He said on the Today Show that (paraphrase) his son is getting treatment. He meant that he’s “getting the treatment”.
Re-education to drive his Prius at more eco-friendly speeds?
What kind of parent makes a statement like this?
algore made his son buy a prius. No prius no money from the offshore bank accounts where the IDF funds laundered through Russia are stashed,
The kid revolted.
One written by scottott...know your sources.
I thought we couldn't post scrappleface?
Yeah! Don’t you think he’s kind of missing the point here?
Parents quoted on SCRAPPLEFACE.
“Re-education to drive his Prius at more eco-friendly speeds?”
He must buy only locally grown drugs; produced with a low carbon footprint.
Good one!
The same one's that said, "There is no controlling legal authority!"
Going 100 mph in a Prius is courting death.
The little car just isnt strong enough to give any protection at that speed.
How great was it that they re-ran the South Park “manbearpig” episode last night?
Getting caught? That is what he was concerned with? His kid's habit is fed by those sneaking the stuff over our borders.That doesn't bother him, tho.
Can we now define the term “clueless idiot”?
I do not believe this is from Scrappleface. I really do believe Al WOULD say something like this.
Junior is looking more and more like senior. I can’t blame him for escaping to drugs.
You know, I think dad might have busted into the kids stash a few times. Al Gore seems oddly detached ever since Bush stole the 2000 election, the election that Al Gore’s lawyers could not make right.
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