Is it just a coincidence that the politicians that has one of the highest financial support (for his campaign) from Exxon is the most critical to Al Gore ???
2007-03-21 11:48:04 · 8 answers · asked by NLBNLB 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Is there an official site where I can find the amount of the financial support ? There must be a proof since it´s done in the legal frame
2007-03-21 11:59:56 · update #1
No coincidence.
He also gets money from Electric Utilities, too.
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&CID=N00005582
2007-03-21 11:57:06 · answer #1 · answered by hgherron2 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If that's true it's sheer coincidence, that almost sounds like you are implying something. I loved how Senator Inhofe was intent on not letting Gore answer and when he said he would like to answer the Senator just kept talking. I don't know who's right or if we'll find out in our lifetimes. I do know this, dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere can't be helping us or the planet.
2007-03-21 11:56:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh Hell no it's no coincidence.
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.
2007-03-21 11:56:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think Al Gore and anyone else that follows the religion of global warming is a nut and Exxon doesn't give me a cent.
2007-03-21 11:55:09 · answer #4 · answered by archangel72901 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Gee what shocking news this is. A politician in a big oil companies pocket book is shamefully speaking out against a threat to our planet so said company can make even more money. And repubs are proud of him. They are all disgraces and obviously hate America
2007-03-21 11:52:24 · answer #5 · answered by mrlebowski99 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
i heard today someone say that corporations weren't supposed to and or didn't need to have morals/values....
so it would stand to reason that EXXON would be prostituting it self as would the politicians that take the $...
2007-03-21 11:56:40 · answer #6 · answered by emarblack 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A lot of people are highly critical of Weird Al, including me & I don't get anything from Exxon. I don't know that Exxon gives a disproportunate amount to Imhoffe. Do you have proof?
2007-03-21 11:52:06 · answer #7 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Inhoffe is from Oklahoma and we know bullshit when we smell it. Gore reeks. Al has profited more from this tirade of his than Inhoffe will ever get from any oil company. by the way in Oklahoma we LIKE oil.
2007-03-21 11:56:00 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 5⤋