Well, this is a bit inconvenient isn’t it?
Al Gore’s mansion uses more than twice the electricity in one month than the average household does in an entire year.
To which Al Gore responds, “But I buy carbon-offset credits”. Which doesn’t diminish the amount of carbons that Mr. Gore and his family put into the atmosphere.
Go compare Gore’s fossil-fuel burning monstrosity of a house mega-mansion with President Bush’s Crawford Ranch.
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Glenn Reynolds thinks that carbon-offsets are iffy anyway:
But if things are as bad as he [Gore] says, is carbon-neutrality enough? Shouldn’t he be paying for all that tree-planting and cutting back on his energy usage? Why be carbon-neutral, if you can be carbon-negative? (And the whole carbon-offset business is kind of iffy anyway).
Captain Ed things Gore’s a hypocrite, too:
Purchasing offsets only means that Gore doesn’t want to make the same kind of sacrifices that he’s asking other families to make. He’s using a modern form of indulgences in order to avoid doing the penance that global-warming activism demands of others. It means that the very rich can continue to suck up energy and raise the price and the demand for electricity and natural gas, while families struggle with their energy costs and face increasing government regulation and taxation. It’s a regressive plan that Gore’s supporters would decry if the same kind of scheme were applied to a national sales tax, for instance.
(you might notice that I’m using the “Celebrity Moonbats” tag on this post…because that’s what Al Gore has become)
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that they purchase offsets, as the Gore’s do, to bring their footprint down to zero.Morning Echo Chamber Update CNS News, local TV, another local TV, another, local papers, an, RW outlets (another), other RW “think tanks,” more blogs, here, here, here, here, and many, many, others. Rush Update – Rush Limbaugh is spending a great deal of time promoting this story today, mocking Gore, mocking global warming science, mocking the idea of a carbon footprint, with music to the tune of “Ring of Fire” – the
This is going to backfire on the ecoterrorists. They are mega consumers and wasters who try to justify it by the fact that they are rich. It’s truly a do as I say and not as I do. They want people with less money to pay more for everything.
No kidding anonymous!!!!!
Rich fat cats want the rest of us to sacrifice, and write books and make movies (making even more money) telling us how WE must conserve. What phonies…yah you AL GORE
Gore Responds To Drudge’s Latest Hysterics
Just to be clear, by ‘backfire’ you mean that global warming will escalate.
share your thoughts on Gore…thumbs-up or thumbs-DOWN!?
Yes, Gore responded.
But that doesn’t meant that smart people are buying his “carbon-offset” excuse. Hell, I’m not even giving him a pass from signing up for “green” produced energy. If you know anything at all about what that means, then you wouldn’t either.
Gore told us at the Oscars that polluting is a moral choice, not a political one. And the bottom line is that he’s choosing a lifestyle that pollutes the planet at a much, much higher rate than 99.99% of the planet’s citizens.
To all who are defending Gore — have you “evaluated your carbon footprint”? And if so, have you purchased any “carbon offsets” (which is just an indulgence tax paid to for-profit companies)?
If not, why not? I think your honest answer to that “why not” follow up question would be very telling.
And seriously, wouldn’t all the green lefties have infinite more respect for Gore and his “personal sacrifice” admonishments if he were to build and live in a truly green home such as President Bush’s Crawford residence?
Hell, I’m not even giving him a pass from signing up for “green†produced energy. If you know anything at all about what that means, then you wouldn’t either.
I guess you’ll have to explain.
Ha…I just read the article about Bush’s house where the author admonishes him for having a 4,000 sq foot house in comparison to what poor people have.
John Edwards 28,000 sq foot abode ought to qualify him for a whipping by that author.
All these people are rich. I’m beginning to think I’ll write in Ralph Nader for President.
Not only is he a huge residental energy consumer, he flies around in chartered jets instead of flying on the airlines. As soon as he parks his jet and sells his mansion, I’ll start listening to him.