If You Purchase Carbon Offsets Are You A Liberal Global Warming Hypocrite Like Al Gore?

Question

Big Al purchases those "carbon offsets" from a company he owns...now who is kidding who on this issue. He owns a 20,000 sq ft house with 8 bathrooms (we always new he was full of crap) that uses more energy than 1000 average homes.
What is the old saying "do as I say...not as I do".

I knew this question would bring out the Al Buttboys like TD.

Why is Al Gore so addicted to the junk science of man made global warming?

CH has hit the nail on the head....they are all hypocrites.

Al Gore global warming hypocrite apologists are flooding answers to this question. So here is the message if you have the money to buy offsets you can waste as much as you like but the masses need to ride their bikes to work.LOL

Answer 1

This is why Babs, and Jen and Brad (well now Brad and Angie) and Ben Afleck, Tim Robbins, Shaun Penn, they all crack me up. Let the Dixi Chicks give up their multimillion dollar mansions, let them give up the gas guzzling hummers and lets not even start on what it costs to just light up a stage and run amps and mics and so on for Bono.... When they drive an economy car, live in a house with three bedrooms and turn the heat down to 68 each night, then I'd be interested to hear their political opinion. Or does being famous make you an expert on everything?

Answer 2

YES YES YES you would be a hypocrite like Al Gore.....it is nothing but a big deception for these people to get the rest of us to change while they do nothing....because they can afford carbon credits ..they are buying their way out of a guilty conscience.....if all the rich hypocrites bought all the carbon credits that the poor misguided smucks have ..cause they really conserved....then nothing in the world has changed....we would be polluting exactly the same amount except now the balance of those polluting most whould shift to rich hypocrites like Al Gore...how can you be an environmental advocate ..where through purchasing carbon credits you pollute as much as we do now...

Answer 3

The one thing people should be straight on about this is he buys his power from his local power company. he may have some green power projects but his local power company that generates those 1300 dollar electric bills is the same kinda power that anyone else uses.

The carbon offsets he buys are from a company that he owns.

This is Al's money grab is what it is. He is making movies writing books and flying around giving speeches.
I am not saying that no good could come from Al and his .. activities.
But I am saying that Al is talking the talk ( and alot of it ) but he is falling way short of walkin the walk. AND he is making alot of money doing it.

Answer 4

I am glad to hear that Al Gore owns a business that is so energy efficient it has carbon offset credits to sell.

I'd like to hear more about that.

Kudos to Mr Gore!

Answer 5

Actually, his house is 10,000 square feet.
and his monthly bills are about $1300.
Electric bills obtained by The Tennessean, however, showed that Gore is paying a premium on his bills to be part of the “green power” program. Gore purchased 108 blocks of “green power” for at least each of the last three months, according to a summary of bills from Nashville Electric Service.

That’s a total of $432 a month spent to pay extra for solar or other renewable energy sources. NES power – outside this program - is derived largely from coal, which emits carbon, a green house gas.

The green power purchased by Gore in those three months is equivalent to recycling 2.48 million aluminum cans, or recycling 286,092 pounds of newspaper, according to comparison figures on the utility's Web site.

Gore’s movie details how greenhouse gases are trapping heat next to the earth, causing a changing climate with melting ice caps and more violent storms.

“Every family has a different carbon footprint,” said Kalee Krider, a spokeswoman for Gore.

The Gore’s 10,000 square foot house on Lynnwood Boulevard doesn’t have a small one.

The Green Power Switch program, however, isn’t all he and his wife, Tipper, are doing, Krider said.

They use compact fluourescent lights and are in the midst of a renovation project that includes having solar panels installed on their home to reduce fossil fuel consumption more, she said.

Their car? A Lexus hybrid SUV.

They put money into an investment company that Gore co-founded with a man named David Blood and it, in turn, sends the money to pay for solar, wind and other projects that reduce energy consumption around the globe.

Answer 6

for anyone who doesn't already know them.

here are the neocon talking points against al gore.

* he uses electricity (gasp!!)

* he's rich and successful.

now that we've got that cleared up we can move on - or maybe cons are so desperate to change the subject that they will talk about al gore some more.

every time america hears al gore speak, they wonder why we have such a fool in the white house.

we won't be fooled again - cons!

Answer 7

I listened to an explanation of "carbon offsets" and I think there's a bit of "smoke and mirrors" going on here. A convenient way to assuage guilt, maybe?

Answer 8

No, under no circumstances, he's properly the only and in basic terms individual in government who fairly stands for some thing its too undesirable that status for some thing so helpful is this type of undesirable ingredient to the yankee human beings. Why do not you do slightly analyze and discover out purely how green his house is? that's previous information and you're in basic terms spouting out conservative propaganda it fairly is unfaithful. Gore had already greened his abode till now they observed as the kettle black...

Answer 9

I hate to say it but you are right. I have a hard time being motivated to make changes in my lifestyle when the person trying to motivate me is not willing to make the same changes in their own.

Answer 10

I'm glad you recognize that all of us should decrease our carbon output.