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Matt Drudge v. Al Gore
Wash Post ^ | February 28, 2007; 11:29 AM ET | Rob Anderson

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."

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To: 1L
who is Al purchasing the offsets from?"

LOL...from some poor 3rd world poor person who will NEVER be able to live the life of luxury Al has.....those 3rd worldies have ALL the "offsets!"

81 posted on 02/28/2007 9:57:09 AM PST by goodnesswins (We need to cure Academentia)
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To: rface

While I agree Gore is a lying hypocrite - I don't think we should be foc8ussing on his power consumption because it detracts from the real issue we should be going right to the root of the issue- that Gore is a freaking liar and his 'research' is total crap and a lie.

He has been allowed to foist his lie on the whole world uncontested except for in a few obscure blogs and newscasts, and this is the real sin- we're losing a VERY winnable war by not getting the truth of the issue made known- but alas- we'll never be able to get it known now because the global warming ball is rolling now, and there is nothign we can do to stop this disgusting lie- we've lost this war. We're all going to pay dearly for our innaction now. The 'carbon taxes' are already being enacted in some states, and businesses are already being penalized for their carbon emissions.

The U.N is going to be collecting trillions and trillions of our dollars for somethign that we will NEVER EVER be able to change no matter what we do.

The following link is a signature link and does not relate to this thread http://sacredscoop.com


82 posted on 02/28/2007 9:57:28 AM PST by CottShop
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

There are THREE of them!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/CO2-carbon-dioxide-credit_W0QQitemZ330093218736QQihZ014QQcategoryZ1310QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/Carbon-Offset-Credit_W0QQitemZ200084100092QQihZ010QQcategoryZ11896QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/Carbon-Footprint-Credit-Save-Environment-No-guilt_W0QQitemZ160090639352QQihZ006QQcategoryZ47103QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


83 posted on 02/28/2007 9:58:00 AM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: exile

And, can I re-sell that offset to someone else? If it is to be traded as a commodity it must have enduring value.


84 posted on 02/28/2007 9:58:13 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: toddlintown


Algore's carbon footprint.
85 posted on 02/28/2007 9:58:36 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Fifth Generation Texan)
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To: rface; All

Why does this 'carbon offset' thingy remind me of Enron? Weren't they involved in a similar scam?


86 posted on 02/28/2007 9:59:35 AM PST by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: CharacterCounts
So, in order to "offset" their carbon use it means that everybody should go out and buy a few square miles of forest. Simple. If you have the millions in spare change like Gore does.

The forest is already in place - so the net effect is zero. The only way Gore could justify this is for him to purchase land with no vegetation and then plant trees.

You'll have to speak to Al about that. He says it counts.

87 posted on 02/28/2007 10:00:09 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: rface

Al, "BLATHERING BS" Gore.

Such spume as not to be believed.


88 posted on 02/28/2007 10:01:02 AM PST by roaddog727 (BullS##t does not get bridges built)
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To: rface

When does Al Start his "Body Fat Exchange"???


89 posted on 02/28/2007 10:05:02 AM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: drpix
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."

Be aware that this exercise would also allow the government to identify an entire class of citizens that are "carbon offset poor". Americans might be required to purchase offsets (wealth re-distribution!) from the "forest-dwelling bark-munchers" of the moon bat fringe!

90 posted on 02/28/2007 10:07:15 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: bassmaner

No. Mark-to-market is entirely different.


91 posted on 02/28/2007 10:08:09 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: tcrlaf
Think of it as the old concept of Catholic Dispensation for the modern Atheist...

Actually it was the selling of indulgences not dispensations that got the Catholic Church in trouble a long, long time ago.

92 posted on 02/28/2007 10:08:59 AM PST by mc5cents (Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
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To: mc5cents

Carbon Credits- The Pet Rocks of 2007...


93 posted on 02/28/2007 10:11:47 AM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: rface

So basically even though Gore 'balances' his lifestyle with carbon credits, I and your average American still use less energy than him.

ASSHAT


94 posted on 02/28/2007 10:12:13 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: rface
"... 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.

Bigfoot Al pays parents of poor chil'ren to swelter in the heat in his place.

Al the Preacher endorses vicarious suffering as a means to save the People. ---And you thought he didn't learn anything before he dropped out of Seminary.

95 posted on 02/28/2007 10:14:04 AM PST by cookcounty (How odd. Lee Hamilton now employed by Sandy Berger: stonebridge-international.com)
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To: finnman69

If a Dog wizzes on your offset tree, do you LOSE credits for that???


96 posted on 02/28/2007 10:19:28 AM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: Lil'freeper
The company from which you purchased the credits will go plant a tree or invest in an alternative energy plant or similar to offset your emissions.

So, that means every month a company is planting a forest somewhere in Tennessee because of Algore???

97 posted on 02/28/2007 10:19:41 AM PST by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty here... move on.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
"...allow the government to identify an entire class of citizens that are "carbon offset poor". Americans might be required to purchase offsets (wealth re-distribution!) from the "forest-dwelling bark-munchers" of the moon bat fringe!"

Nothing more than a grab for the cash!

The U.N. crowd and Chirac are already talking about a "carbon tax."

It won't be long before the frauds of the legal community flood the courts with law suits to cash in on this "whiplash science"

98 posted on 02/28/2007 10:20:06 AM PST by drpix
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99 posted on 02/28/2007 10:20:37 AM PST by cartoonistx
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To: edcoil

You can't sell them... they're like food-stamps for the evironment.


100 posted on 02/28/2007 10:23:35 AM PST by johnny7 ("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
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