Posted on 07/25/2008 1:14:42 PM PDT by ChessExpert
Do as Al says, not as Al doesOn 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 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.
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WTF! OMG?!! The Canucks grew some stones!
Al Gore, while holding the 2 of spades and the 9 of hearts, has gone ‘all in’ with his global warming hysteria. The public has an ace high straight, but no courage. It remains to be seen if the public will call his bluff or if fold to his relentlessness.
Al’s got the cash to go carbon free now. He can broadcast his speeches, streaming them over the net. He can go 100% solar at his house. He can stop traveling, period, and have his groceries delivered by golf cart.
He wants me to do it, lets see him do it first.
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.
It is called Fat Al's Recycle Technology.
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 device (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 device, 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 device now.
Simply contact Al Gore and follow his instructions.
Who left the door open at the funny farm? Havent we had enough of this snakeoil salesmen!
Feel free to use it, I stole it from someone else, I can’t give credit because I don’t remember who I got it from.
I half way expected it to be removed by the mod. (It is kind of gross)
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