- You were, are ,and forever will ever be a hypocrite. Your lies will not dissuade us. We know you are not governed by "any legal controlling authority".
Posted on 02/28/2007 9:16:10 AM PST by rface
The Drudge Report is known mostly as a wildly popular news outlet. Drudge lashed out at Gore after Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," took the Oscar for Best Documentary.
Citing a press release by the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, Drudge reports that Gore's Tennessee household uses twenty times as much energy as the average person's home, and that the former vice president's energy consumption has increased since the release of his anti-global warming film. "The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy," the report says. "In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh -- more than 20 times the national average."
Gore shot back at Drudge Monday through an interview with the liberal Web site ThinkProgress:
Responding to Drudge, Gore's office told ThinkProgress:
1) Gore's family has taken numerous steps to reduce the carbon footprint of their private residence, including signing up for 100 percent green power through Green Power Switch, installing solar panels, and using compact fluorescent bulbs and other energy saving technology.
2) Gore has had a consistent position of purchasing carbon offsets to offset the family's carbon footprint -- a concept the right-wing fails to understand. Gore's office explains:
What Mr. Gore has asked is that every family calculate their carbon footprint and try to reduce it as much as possible. Once they have done so, he then advocates that they purchase offsets, to bring their footprint down to zero.
And then there's this comparison Rush Limbaugh made between Gore and President Bush on his radio program yesterday: "Compare Gore's mansion and Bush's modest 4,000 square foot little house on a ranch in Crawford. Who is it that is actually walking the walk here when it comes to conserving energy? It is not Al Gore."
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.washingtonpost.com ...
A couple months ago, this was the story.
Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm
12/7/2006
Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.
Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.
But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.
A Reading From The GOSPEL of ST. GORE:
"Pay Heed!
The Atheist Rapture of Global Warming is upon us, and we will all SURELY DIE, unless ye purchase Carbon Credits from my website, RIGHT NOW!!!"
This has been a reading from the Gospel of St. Gore...
"Sobald der Gülden im Becken klingt im huy die Seel im Himmel springt"
"In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh -- more than 20 times the national average."
Now that's an An Inconvenient Truth
Terrapass.com is a popular one.
http://www.terrapass.com/
This is a carbon offset site.
So how does one get into the carbon offset racket er business?
I don't have a private jet or a Hummer, so I must be sitting on a goldmine.
How does Al offset that $1,000,000 in Occidental Petroleum Stock?
carbon tax soon.
I'm sure if Gore was around during the Civil war he would have paid someone to take his place in the draft.
What a hypocrite.
Very good point.
What more proof is required that man-made Global Warming is a religion without God than this... they're selling dispensations from "sins". Just send money to high-priest Gore's approved Leftist-Green groups and all will be forgiven.
I've got lots. Bargain prices, too! AND I take PayPal!
NFN, but Rush's belief that 4000 ft represents a modest home only proves that he lives in an entirely different world from the rest of us.
You are correct.
First, "carbon offsets" are a scam because wealthy people keep using as much energy as they like and salve their conscience by paying money to companies who do something "green."
Second, a lot of these "green" activities are just as bad for the environment as using oil, gas and coal. Sometimes worse.
Buying carbon offsets is the modern day equivalent of buying indulgences. One doesn't really need to change habits if one is rich enough to buy those "carbon indulgences". For secularlists, those global warming believers sure sound like a religion.
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