Gore's Oil Rant Full Of Hot Air: Political Hasbeen Crusades Against Alberta Oil Industry

Toronto Sun ^ | 7-8-06 | Paul Stanway

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

It's wonderful that Ralph Klein and Stephen Harper are working to raise our profile in Washington, but for every silver lining there is a cloud -- and in this case it's a glowering thunderhead named Al Gore.

Last week, Ralph was in the U.S. capital promoting Alberta, and specifically the oil-sands as a reliable source of energy.

This week it was the PM's turn, with a meeting Thursday with birthday boy George Bush, and earlier a working dinner with heavy hitters from the president's cabinet.

It's still news to most Canadians that our country is America's No. 1 source of energy, but the Bush administration knows it and is increasingly interested in Canada -- Alberta in particular -- as a place where oil and gas don't go hand in hand with political instability and anti-Americanism.

The importance of Canada to the U.S. as an energy supplier is not news to former Democratic presidential candidate Gore. Back in January, he accused the oil industry of financing the election of "ultra-conservative" Harper to protect their interests in the oil-sands.

"The election in Canada was partly about the tar sands projects in Alberta," Gore told a crowd at the Sundance film festival in Utah. "The financial interests behind the tar sands poured a lot of money and support behind an ultra-conservative leader in order to win the election...and to protect their interests."

Apparently Gore was unaware that Canadian election law caps company donations at $1,000 a year, or that natural resources are controlled by provincial governments and not the feds. But why let facts get in the way of a good smear?

This week he was at it again, using an interview with Rolling Stone magazine to suggest development of the oil-sands is "truly nuts" -- equivalent to a junkie looking for a fix.

"They have to tear up four tonnes of landscape, all for one barrel of oil," moaned Gore. "It seems reasonable, to them, because they've lost sight of their lives."

Well, thanks for that, Al, but I'm guessing most Albertans have a better grip on their lives than a political also-ran who can't get over the fact he lost the presidency to George W.

Gore also has a Michael Moore-style movie out -- An Inconvenient Truth -- that tries to dramatize the eye-glazing greenhouse gas slide show presentation the former Veep has been boring audiences with for two decades (I have had the misfortune to sit through it twice).

Among Gore's more outrageous nose-stretchers in the film is the claim that scientists agree global warming could produce a 20-foot rise in sea level. A 2005 joint statement by the science academies of the Western nations, including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, actually estimates a worst-case scenario of 35 inches.

But, again, why bother with facts when you're on a crusade? And Gore is most certainly on one. Despite the fact that the original Kyoto was dead on arrival, and swiftly dumped by his own president, Bill Clinton, he believes we need a Kyoto II to effectively kill developments such as Alberta's oil-sands.

Gore ignores the reality that the countries that signed Kyoto, including Canada, have thus far committed a gargantuan $150 billion to hypothetically reduce the average global temperature by 0.0015 degrees Celsius. At that rate, it would take around 665 years and $100 trillion to reduce it by one full degree Celsius. (Numbers courtesy of JunkScience.com, and official government data.)

If, by some fluke, Gore were to persuade the Democrats to make the same mistake twice and nominate him for the 2008 presidential race, the U.S. Senate would presumably once again prevent him from trashing his own economy.

But who would prevent him from trashing the oil-sands?

"I don't know what he proposes the world run on -- hot air?" wondered Alberta's premier.

Ah, if only. Gore could likely power Fort MacMurray all on his own.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

(Yep, THIS AlBore.)

[FormerACLUmember]

I read a lot of Canadian press. Gore is utterly despised as a raving bizarro lunatic. The Canadians hate him for his current shameless hoaxes and demented pontifications. They see Gore as a serious risk to CANADIAN prosperity.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

GREAT graphic! :-)

[Arizona Carolyn]

Sounds like the Canadian Press is a whole lot more honest these days than our own. This is the second article that I've read recently from Canada giving the facts, instead of rhetoric, on Global Warming.

[ClaireSolt]

Well, they are the ones who've been had, already.

[highlander_UW]

"... why bother with facts when you're on a crusade?"

He hit the nail on the head here...to the dems, any lie is justifiable if it supports their idea of the "greater good" (Gore's crusade). The fact that the dems don't have even a 2 finger grasp of what a greater good might actually be is immaterial to them.

[Cobra64]

El Wrongo my FRiend.

This. Is Al Gore.

And when he was on the farm in Tennessee.

[Mike Darancette]

Gore uses fear to explain that it is either my way or death.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

touche, touche, el FReeper FRiend! (I am not worthy.) :-)

[alloysteel]

The world's economy is going to be based on extraction and burning of fossil fuels for many years to come, and it matters little if the economic leadership remains with the US and the Western world, or if the China-India hegemony takes over from us. The one difference would be, that the East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere will have little regard, compared to the US and Europe, for the emissions that result from the burning of this vast quantity of stored energy. So to the degree that the Far East gains ascendency over North America and Europe, the air, water, and land pollution shall be just that much worse.

The "Greens" are a very small constituency in China.

[John Lenin]

I will play on your fears!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

So I'm wondering when will Gore and the envirowackos criticize France for using nuclear energy.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

A little behind in our reading, are we?

French protest new nuclear reactor (19 April 2006)
French plans to build a new nuclear reactor near the port of Cherbourg in Normandy sparked large-scale protests at the weekend, timed to coincide with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

[BenLurkin]

[operation clinton cleanup]

"Alberta" Gore hates Canadians!

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

(That's a nice little "Fortune City" logo you posted!) :-)

[BenLurkin]

Interesting. I'm not getting that on my browser. Does this google catch image display?

[Eagle9]

Every time I see I read about 'Mr.-Oh-So-Concerned-About-The-Enviornment' Al Gore, I wonder if the Gore family has totally divested themselves of all shares and connections, along with returning past profits, to Occidental Petroleum Corporation.

Armand Hammer, Occidental Petroleum, and the Gore Family posted by Bigun 5/13/2000
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a391d8ff0327c.htm
(Excerpt)

"If Al Gore Jr. ever runs for President, he'll have to answer some embarrassing questions about the source of his family's wealth" F.R. Duplantier in America's Future

"We do have inveterate antipathy for communism -- or paranoia as I like to put it," young Gore wrote to his father. He went on to consider the policy implications of this American Cold War obsession. "My own belief is that this form of psychological ailment -- in this case a national madness -- leads the victim to actually create the thing which is feared the most. It strikes me that this is precisely what the U.S. has been doing. Creating -- and if not creating, energetically supporting -- fascist, totalitarian regimes in the name of fighting totalitarianism. Greece, South Vietnam, a good deal of Latin America. For me, the best example of all is the U.S. Army" (emphasis added) The New Yorker 11/28/94

 

Oh, but there's more ...

How Mr. Clean Got His Hands Dirty [The Gores, Armand Hammer, and Oxy Petroleum] posted by Wallaby 3/6/2000 | article was published 11/1/1998
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38c4a8fd6308.htm
(Excerpt)

AL GORE JUNIOR, the Mr Clean of American politics, is the President-in-Impatient-Waiting of the United States. Barring disaster or disgrace, he will be the Democratic candidate in 2000 and stands fair to win the election and occupy the Oval Office. If Bill Clinton resigns or is impeached, Al Gore could become the most powerful man in the world at any time over the next two years.

 

[Eagle9]

Correction: Every time I see I read= Every time I read...

[highlander_UW]

Very true. I've been in China, and air pollution is a very serious problem. It is estimated that 1/3 of the population of China have respiratory problems.

[SierraWasp]

Look what this prime A-hole is trying to pull!!! STFU Algore!!! Just Do it!!!

[norraad]

Exactly why, among other reasons, we must dominate these animals!

Bizarre & cruel sounding, yet that's the reality.

Fill it out with pretty words for the weak minded & lillylivered.

We are Alpha, that's just how the cookie crumbles, accept and move on.

Insert Churchill quote of choice here; "...."

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Interesting. I'm not getting that on my browser. Does this google catch image display?

Yes it does....looks like a "Sore/Loserman" sign in the background. Priceless! :-)

[Dog Gone]

Gore is a dangerous lunatic who would be ignored if he didn't have allies in the MSM.

The MSM still has enormous power. Otherwise, he would be laughed off the stage at every appearance.

[SierraWasp]

"Gore is a dangerous lunatic"

Are you saying he's a "risky scheme?"

I'm sure glad you check in here on weekends on occasion!!!

[Eagle9]

Are you saying he's a "risky scheme?"

Maybe he could be put in that "lock box" that he kept talking about during the '96 presidential campaign.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

So I'm wondering when will Gore and the envirowackos criticize France for using nuclear energy.

Not going to happen...the same thing is happening here in Toronto....our Premier (McGuinty) keeps saying we need to get more energy here in Toronto -- and can't always be relying on the US for extra energy. So what do they do? Close down the nuclear plants and look for other "clean-burning" sources of fuel....when all along the REAL clean fuel alternative IS nuclear...and on top of that they won't use coal because it isn't "clean-burning" either -- although in abundant supply. So we have high utility rates as a consequence. It is SO convoluted.