Al Gore JET do you agree Al needs to drive a electric Golf Cart instead of a Jet his power bill is $3,000 a month for 1 of his houses.What do you think green politicians should drive? How about their House?THEY WANT a CARBON TAX to tax evil OIL Corporations DEM Senator DODD. that means trickle down to you $6.00 a gallon Gas Higher food prices TRUCKS deliver food run on FUEL,higher electric they will build NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS its a low carbon foot print
2007-08-09 18:50:27 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
You've got a really good point there. Al Gore is pretty hypocritical. I don't care about your stance on global warming, just think about it for a minute. This one man equals like 20 people when comparing "carbon footprints."
Geoff C: Really nice point about the carbon offsets! Carbon offsets are just REALLY expensive "credits" that ecomarxists are using as a karma scapegoat. Let's give a scenario: we have a farm in a rural area. This farm grows a TON of corn. Let's say that this corn is calculated to remove, I dunno, 20,000 lbs of CO2 from the air each year. Right now, that farm is doing that on its own. It's effect is positive, assuming you think global warming is true. Now here comes Greenpeace (or another weirdo organization that sells carbon offsets): "Farmer Joe, can we add your land to our list of carbon offsets? We'll give you $20!" Farmer Joe agrees, because, hey, who doesn't want a free $20. Now Greenpeace owns the "carbon offset rights" to that land. They add this to a big database of all the plants that they can use as carbon offsets. So some person who got guilted by the media logs onto the Greenpeace carbon offset site and they say: "Well, I've installed my dark, office-like compact fluorescent light bulbs (making my house look like a tomb); I've been conned by Toyota into wasting a few Gs on a weak, inefficient, and UGLY Prius; and I've completely stopped flying (instead I take the train for 50 hours to California!)...but after all that, I'm STILL a few thousand pounds of CO2 short! Well, guess I can get one of these carbon offsets." So this person who's been conned into "environmentalism" is doing the math, and they need to cover 1000 lbs of CO2. So they find out that that will cost...just $500 a year to offset! "Great! Charge it on my MasterCard baby!" Where's this $500 going? Probably more propaganda from the ecomarxist, as well as Greenpeace's nice, fat, wallet. I mean, after all, taking out the $20 they slipped Farmer Joe, they made a cool profit of $480 by sitting and doing squat. Nice job libs, you've got us all fooled!
Phew. OK, done with that.
2007-08-09 21:04:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
i hate the way he uses carbon offsetting as a scapegoat for his outrageous use of energy. I planted some basil yesterday can I now leave my nightlight on.
If he was really a believer in global warming and stopping it he would plant trees and be an example of how to cut back.
the old say actions speak louder than words rings true with me.
What a joke that they flew musicians and celebs all over to put on a huge rock concert to show us that we should conserve energy. I wonder what the global foorprint of that event was.
ADDITION: People Like nana luna just dont get the fact that we are concerning ourselfs with the habits of Al Gore becuase as he continues to have a carbon foorprint of 20 people he has the Nerve to wag his finger at us telling us how we are destroying the planet by not having CF bulbs. Ever heard of practice what you preach nana Luna?
2007-08-09 19:02:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Al Gore does not own a jet. Nor an airplane of any kind. Somebody's been lying to you -- but who? And why do you believe them?
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/nameSQL.asp?nametxt=gore&cmndfind.x=16&cmndfind.y=15&sort_option=5
2007-08-10 05:00:11 · answer #3 · answered by Keith P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Al Gore's method of travel should not be our concern. We should each concern ourselves with our own impact. If we focus on what other people are or are not doing, we will accomplish nothing ourselves. If no one is setting an example, we should strive to become the example for others. We should be willing to pay more for quality and efficiency.
Perhaps you have better ideas [solutions] to contribute...? If not, maybe you should focus your energy on forming solutions rather than criticisms.
2007-08-09 21:46:07 · answer #4 · answered by nana luna 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Don't blame Al Gore. He has solar panels now....sooooo shut up?
2007-08-09 22:20:35 · answer #5 · answered by Eric 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
He should be required to pedal a bicycle.
Electricity to recharge the golf cart would come primarilly from coal fired electric generation facilities.
2007-08-09 18:56:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Kinda cynical but you make no sense a few senators and their jets don't even dent the problem fool.
2007-08-09 19:58:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why not use this newfangled InterWeb thingamajig that he invented to teleconference? Think of the inspiration for all the politicians, businessmen, and celebrities who travel to make "appearances"...it could all be eliminated. At this point he has logged more air miles than 99% of those of us who don't fly for a living.
2007-08-09 19:47:16 · answer #8 · answered by 3DM 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
He should be forced to peddle his fat *** on a bicycle.
2007-08-10 02:33:47 · answer #9 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
he should be required to jump off a cliff...
2007-08-09 21:14:56 · answer #10 · answered by noctowl_advance 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋