Al Gore's Hypocrisy -- His Very Inconvenient Utility Bill

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[quesney]

Hey, we're better environmentalists than Al Gore:

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=nation_world&id=5073354

These politicians. They try to soak the rich and bemoan tax cuts while getting rich and exploiting tax shelters themselves (Hillary Clinton), they talk about Global Warming while splurging on energy and driving SUVs (Gore, etc.), they talk about the plight of the working class and of Two Americas and live in gigantic mansions (Edwards), they talk tough on war yet avoided military duty in their youth and keep their own kids or grandkids out (Bush, Cheney). They're the elite, we're the serfs. We are living in a live-action version of George Orwell's Animal Farm.

[Senator Goldwater]

I'll bet he's sorry he ever invented the internet.

[isthisnickcool]

Gore Responds: "Hey, I cook a lot of bacon! Frying bacon takes a lot of energy!"

[MamaB]

Did you see the poll on the site? Only 27 people had voted.

[quesney]

"Gore Responds: "Hey, I cook a lot of bacon! Frying bacon takes a lot of energy!""

Not enough apparently. Did you see how fat he looked at the Oscars?

[SquirrelKing]

ROFL

[wmc-50]

That's funny.

[VeniVidiVici]

30-thou a year in utility bills and the best they can come up with they each have a home office?

Gore should be a poster boy for what he peddles. His hypocracy is NOT surprising.

[tcrlaf]

P.T. Barnum is laughing from the grave at this feel-guilt fleecing of guilt-ridden Liberals...

Create a fake "Commodity", then get stupid liberals to PAY you for them!!

WHAT A SCAM!!

Can you imagine?
"Buddy, can you spare a Carbon Credit? I really need a smoke..."

Or as someone on another thread stated, it's like the old practice of Catholic Dispensation.

Pay a fee to a Priest in The Church Of Global Warming, and continue polluting, free of guilt, without worry of purgatory...

[KellyAdmirer]

and then they purchase offsets for their carbon emissions to bring their carbon footprint down to zero.

So Big Al pays some poor schnook to do his energy conserving for him? Does he also pay the guy to shine his shoes?

[JacksonCalhoun]

I wonder who the "former Gore aide". I would guess that execrable twit Chris Lehane.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[. . .and the family tries to offset that carbon footprint by purchasing their power through the local Green Power Switch program - electricity generated through renewable resources such as solar, wind, and methane gas, which create less waste and pollution.]

I live in Tennessee. Gore is getting power from the same grid I am. It's not like there is electrical cables running from a windmill to his house. This Green Power Switch is just another scam to let limousine liberals ease their guilt.

[az_gila]

Wierd... it just went _down_ to 24 votes....

[isthisnickcool]

Does he also pay the guy to shine his shoes?

Gore's shoe shine guy quit. He found out that Gore's carbon footprint has athletes feet.

[Wycowboy]

30-thou a year in utility bills and the best they can come up with they each have a home office?

Why would they need offices? They don't have jobs.

[flashbunny]

saving the world is a full time job.

[pillut48]

Gotta say I'm amazed ABC is actually reporting this, after all the lovefest for Gore last night!!

:-O

[Wycowboy]

saving the world is a full time job.

Right....but for them it's a labor of love.

s/

[Pro-Bush]

Wow, what a large "carbon" footprint algore.

[quantim]

At least this Gore stuff is getting traction, FOX was all over it tonight, O'Reilly too.

Nary a mention of Edwards though, he'll be the first causality, and as a former senator, quite fitting.