erest?
Oh who am I kidding, CONFLICT? It's in his direct financial interest to scare people into buying his carbon credits like indulgences. PT Barnum would be proud as hell. This way to the egress!!
http://billhobbs.com/2007/02/more_on_gore.html
Gore helped found Generation Investment Management, through which he and others pay for offsets. The firm invests the money in solar, wind and other projects that reduce energy consumption around the globe, she said...
Gore is chairman of the firm and, presumably, draws an income or will make money as its investments prosper. In other words, he "buys" his "carbon offsets" from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself. To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy "carbon offsets" through Generation Investment Management - he buys stocks.
2007-10-12 05:33:06 · 16 answers · asked by Major Deek 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Ken, Mr Gore IS an Oil man.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20000522/silverstein
2007-10-12 05:52:25 · update #1
You are absolutely correct! And as P.T. Barnum would have said, "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." Al Gore is counting on it.
2007-10-12 05:37:36 · answer #1 · answered by rduke88 4 · 5⤊ 5⤋
Since when is being a capitalist a bad thing in America? One of the arguments Gore & Clinton have made is that green is good for the economy. Bush and the right are the only ones who think America can't compete. I don't get it. Actually, I do get it (the conflict that is) See, the right has taken tons of money from big oil, and big oil does not like green energy. It is that simple. Other countries are already developing green technology that we will wind up having to buy from them.
2016-05-22 02:15:32 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since when is being a capitalist a bad thing in America?
One of the arguments Gore & Clinton have made is that green is good for the economy.
Bush and the right are the only ones who think America can't compete. I don't get it.
Actually, I do get it (the conflict that is) See, the right has taken tons of money from big oil, and big oil does not like green energy. It is that simple.
Other countries are already developing green technology that we will wind up having to buy from them.
2007-10-12 05:44:41 · answer #3 · answered by apathycat 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I never cease to be amazed at how the bleeding hearted liberal media machine has managed to buff and polish Al Gore into an intelligent, thoughtful man who actually matters. Al Gore is easily the dumbest human being to ever run for president. His thickness is why he's always come off as a stiff piece of cardboard, which has always come through despite his daughters desperate pleas on night time talk shows to interpretate that as his personality just not shining through. If not for his daddy's millions, we'd never have heard of Al Gore nor his carbon footprints.
2007-10-12 05:44:13 · answer #4 · answered by dagiffy 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Carbon offsets are a joke. Alternative energy sources are a credible investment and I am glad that he backs his words with investment. What would you be saying if he was selling carbon offsets and investing in oil?
See my question, Global Warming: Who Cares:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjBcKLrqtC7H8Qobya9rqvfsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071012091445AAmAs1d
2007-10-12 05:41:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Well, let's suppose that is true, how is that illegal? He currently does not hold public office. It is right to invest in whatever company he chooses. If he truly believes that man made carbon emissions are causing global warming, I would argue that this isn't even unethical.
(Note: I didn't look at the link because I didn't want to sign up for anything...my apologies if that is explained in the article)
2007-10-12 05:41:09 · answer #6 · answered by John V 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
As a response to the dittohead that mentioned PT Barnum (a role that Ann 'the Man' Coulter fits today), I recall the Terri Schiavo circus; how Bush rushes in to "save her from the dems", how the dittoheads all claim they were talking to her, etc. Almost as big a circus as the 'mushroom cloud' act that was going on in the center ring...
2007-10-12 05:43:09 · answer #7 · answered by expose_neocons 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Talking about Al Gore at all is a conflict of interest...the interest of talking about someone that actually matters to people who aren't far left extremists.
2007-10-12 05:52:49 · answer #8 · answered by russkilove 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
At least Gore is out of office. BushCo invaded Iraq and Bush's whole family is hip deep in oil money. Also, who did we hire to rebuild Iraq? Haliburton. And who was their CEO not that long ago? Cheney. Don't give me any BS about conflict of intrest. These two examples just by themselves stink to high heaven.
2007-10-12 05:42:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
He's just running a huge ponzi scheme and all the little lib-bots are following right along behind his huge haunches.
2007-10-12 05:55:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋