There are more good facts in the article -- so don't read it!
Posted on 07/21/2008 6:28:07 PM PDT by Zakeet
On Thursday, former U. S. vice-president Al Gore delivered a major address calling on his country to abandon all fossil fuels within 10 years. By 2018, U. S. electricity and fuel should come entirely from "renewable energy and truly clean, carbon-free sources," he said. Tickets to the event encouraged attendees to "please use public transit, bicycling or other climate-friendly means" to reach the lecture hall.
So how did Mr. Gore and his retinue arrive? In two Lincoln Town Cars and a full-sized SUV that sat idling with the air conditioners blasting while the Gore party was inside.
It was 34 C [93 F] in Washington. Al Gore can't be expected to get into an overheated vehicle after he's worked up a sweat telling others how to save the planet.
Remember, too, the Nobel prizewinning environmentalist lives in a Tennessee mansion that produces a carbon footprint 20 times that of the average American home. A sizeable chunk of his personal fortune comes from royalties on a zinc mine which had to be temporarily closed five years ago in part because the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ruled it one of the worst-polluting mine sites in America. Illegal toxins were frequently discharged into nearby rivers.
Mr. Gore's Live Earth benefit concert last summer flew scores of rock bands to stages around the world in carbon-spewing private jets. To cover the emissions from his own frequent use of private jets, Mr. Gore set up a company that buys carbon offsets, so that in effect he is paying himself for his carbon indulgences, writing off the expense on one hand, while pocketing the proceeds on the other.
Apparently if the world is ever to reach the carbon-free future Mr. Gore dreams of, it will have to get there without Al's help.
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There are more good facts in the article -- so don't read it!
Tickets to the event encouraged attendees to "please use public transit, bicycling or other climate-friendly means" to reach the lecture hall. So how did Mr. Gore and his retinue arrive? In two Lincoln Town Cars and a full-sized SUV that sat idling with the air conditioners blasting while the Gore party was inside.
Remember, too, the Nobel prizewinning environmentalist lives in a Tennessee mansion that produces a carbon footprint 20 times that of the average American home. A sizeable chunk of his personal fortune comes from royalties on a zinc mine which had to be temporarily closed five years ago in part because the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ruled it one of the worst-polluting mine sites in America. Illegal toxins were frequently discharged into nearby rivers.
Mr. Gore's Live Earth benefit concert last summer flew scores of rock bands to stages around the world in carbon-spewing private jets. To cover the emissions from his own frequent use of private jets, Mr. Gore set up a company that buys carbon offsets, so that in effect he is paying himself for his carbon indulgences, writing off the expense on one hand, while pocketing the proceeds on the other.
I don’t know how any reasonable person could take this fat lump of crap seriously. He’s a corrupt liar who is only out to enrich himself. He should be treated like the lying slob he is.
Zakeet, it’s hard on my eyeballs to look at that pic ... and worse trying to chew my dinner at the same time.
You ask too much, friend!
Nice photo of the slaphappy-headed hoax.
Therefore, Al Gore has developed a new program to combat this obviously increasing peril to our planet, and make a little money for himself at the same time.
Everyone will be required to wear a “fart meter,” (Cost $75, available only from Al Gore) which will record and automatically transmit to a new government agency (the Federal Automatic Recording Technology Department) the occasion of each fart and the volume thereof.
For an additional fee of $4,500, interested parties can purchase a fart capture mechanism (available only from Al Gore). This 25 pound device can be conveniently worn under the special clothing available also from Al Gore in attractive shades of brown.
When full, the interested consumer can present his fart capture device to Al Gore's recycling center, where for a fee of $0.10 per fart, the captured farts will be recycled into the US natural gas distribution system. Al Gore also will receive a modest fee of only $0.015 per fart for the energy content of the gas.
The interested consumer will also receive “fart credits” for the number of farts he recycles. These “fart credits” can be traded to other consumers, who elected not to purchase a fart capture mechanism, through Al Gore's Fart Trading Exchange. Al Gore will extract only a small commission of $0.01 per fart for each trade.
All Consumers will be required to be “fart neutral” by a “Cap and Trade” regulation, administered by the new Federal Automatic Recording Technology Department. Legislation is being developed as we speak, by the concerned Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and her erstwhile compatriot in the Senate, Harry Reid.
Get ahead of the mandated stampede to control this growing threat to our planet. Get you fart capture mechanism now.
Simply contact Al Gore and follow his instructions.
There are 22 bus stops or rail stations within a quarter mile of the site, but Al the Hypocrite, while exhorting us all to use public transportation, had to use THREE gas guzzlers.
That downsizing lifestyles is only for the Proles.
We need to get more people to refer to offsets with this much more accurate name.
Al looks as insane as he is.
There are only two possible ways phony Al can justify his life style: He KNOWS his Global warming mantra is a LIE, and he actually thinks the world’s people are extremely stupid and will believe him because it sounds true.
Gore probably is laughing at all the suckers who buy into his religion. It reminds me of the TV preachers who pushed the gospel of financial wealth: “If god wanted me to be poor, he wouldn’t have a million viewers sending me money so I can buy this $800 suit”. They’re all gone now.
Gridlock’s tagline:
Al Gore wants YOU to live like the FLintstones, while HE lives like the Jetsons
Global Scamming has made Reverend algore a Gazillianaire. He makes the Bagwhan Rashneesh look like a piker.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Hillary witch slapped him around for 8 years, maybe he's beginning to show the brain damage.
He used to have $800k in stock in Occidental Petroleum. Did he sell that off?
Mr. Gore set up a company that buys carbon offsets, so that in effect he is paying himself for his carbon indulgences, writing off the expense on one hand, while pocketing the proceeds on the other.
Why don't we all just take this for the model of responsible environmentalism and each of us set up our own individual shell er uh, carbon offset trading company.
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