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

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[DTogo]

and the family tries to offset that carbon footprint by purchasing their power through the local Green Power Switch program

That's like eating meat three times a day, and donating to PETA.

Owning a liquor store, and donating to MADD.

Being Bobby Kennedy Jr., and not supporting the Cape Wind project.

[KarlInOhio]

I just paid someone in China to eliminate votes. It's polling offset.

[george76]

Al Gore's mansion uses more than twice the electricity in one month than the average household does in an entire year.

[GATOR NAVY]

LOL that must be it. When I just voted it was 10!

[FastCoyote]

Two other bi9g mansion energy suckers are Jaohn Edwards and Barbra Streisand. someone who has time should post pics of their mansions.

[cookcounty]

These facts will change nothing. In Hollywood they only care about play-acting.

[cookcounty]

"Kalee Kreider,..... pointed out that both Al and Tipper Gore work out of their home and she argued that "the bottom line is that every family has a different carbon footprint. And what Vice President Gore has asked is for families to calculate that footprint and take steps to reduce and offset it."

Bigfoot Al, a.k.a. Sasquatch.

[HHFi]

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

My wife and I both work out of home offices, we live in a 1913 house with lousy insulation, and our annual electric bill is about $5700, which I still consider to be highway robbery. This self-serving nonsense of paying someone else to reduce your "carbon footprint" and calling yourself an environmentalist reminds me of people during the Civil War who paid some poor farmboy to go fight in their place and then called themselves patriots.

Man, these libs are so predictable. Whether it's Hillary reacting to David Geffen stating the obvious truth about her, or this group releasing indisputable public records of Gore's electricity and gas consumption, they never address the facts; they just flail the messenger with totally beside-the-point, ad hominem attacks. And just for the record, anyone who states that "the debate is settled" on a scientific issue and nobody should be allowed to question the "consensus" has just proven he has no concept of the most basic scientific principles. Maybe he should instead go pillory the guy who discovered that bacteria cause ulcers and was ridiculed by the entire medical establishment until he inconveniently proved it was true.

[Nevadan]

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

Before you give ABC credit for actually doing their job and reporting an inconvenient news story on Algore, I would ask if ABC has actually reported it on the national network news, or is it just mentioning it on their Internet site? Sometimes they will post things on the website but weasel out on broadcasting it. The article posted sounds to me like it is just a local news station that is asking some questions.

[highlander_UW]

They've completely lost the debate on the issue so now they're just attacking their most effective opponent."

OR...they may simply be pointing to the most hypocritical supporter of the global warming doctrine.

[kik5150]

Home office, huh...
There must be some way to calculate how many fax machines, computers, flourecent lights etc. they would have to operate to consume that much power. Oh, and that must be a toasty pool if he is burning over $500 a month to heat it. With his reasoning all we each need to do is to pay some dirt farmer in Myanmar 25 cents a month not to drive an SUV so we can contunue to drive ours. what a concept.

[heleny]

Gores in 2006 averaged a monthly electricity bill of $1,359 for using 18,414 kilowatt-hours

Over 600 kWh per day

Wow. How many plasma TV's, refrigerators, and air conditioners do you need to use to average 600 kWh per day, or about 25,200 kW per hour?

If you count the days he's actually home, the electricity consumption rate is even higher.

[uncle fenders]

I hope this works, I don't practice it enough...

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[cookcounty]

>i>...they talk tough on war yet avoided military duty in their youth and keep their own kids or grandkids out (Bush....)

Careful, pal. George Bush joined* the Air Force National Guard in the summer of 1968. In the very month he signed up, Texas Air National Guard F-102 pilots were flying missions in Vietnam (Project Palace Guard). If you had a Bachelor's degree in anything other than Science, Engineering or Math, you could not go into the regular Air Force pilot training program. So he joined the TANG.

Perhaps you remember Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff from 1976 in which he chronicled, in the first chapters, the dangers of flying in certain fighter aircraft. Which plane was cited as most dangerous in the Air Force? Bush's plane, the F-102 Delta Dart (page 24). While Bush was in his year-long training for the F-102, the Air Force decided the F-102 was less suitable for close support tasks than other newer aircraft in the arsenal, and ended their service in Vietnam.

After getting out of flight training for the F-102, the Air Force and the TANG reassessed the horrible safety record of the F-102 and determined that they had lost too many of the planes and too many pilots and ended the F-102 program (almost 30% of the F102s produced crashed or were destroyed in accidents on the tarmac---USAF Aircraft safety records). Flying fighter aircraft is not like driving cars, where you can get out of your Chevy and drive a Ford instead. Each aircraft has a long training period, and by then the war was winding down. Nixon announced the end of the draft December 7th, 1971 ( I'm an expert on that subject because I was in my 6th day at Fort Knox when he made the announcement). Ground combat ended in April of '72 and flight slots for Vietnam were hard to get, even if you had been trained in the "right" aircraft.

So where was George? I got out the same time as President Bush, and where was I in those last months, a medical corpsman with excellent ratings? --painting rocks, mopping the mess hall and being asked if there wasn't some "early drop" I qualified for.

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* Who joined the Air National Guard the same month as George "Silver Spoon" Bush? Why none other than poor Dickie Gephardt, son of the humble down-trodden milkman. Dick Gephardt seved less than half the duty days of that supposedly duty-shirking Bush, and that may be the real reason why Gephardt sank from the 2004 primary race like a wingless F-102. Dick was just too darn inconvenient for the Dems attack plans.

[quesney]

"Who joined the Air National Guard the same month as George "Silver Spoon" Bush? Why none other than poor Dickie Gephardt, son of the humble down-trodden milkman. Dick Gephardt seved less than half the duty days of that supposedly duty-shirking Bush, and that may be the real reason why Gephardt sank from the 2004 primary race like a wingless F-102. Dick was just too darn inconvenient for the Dems attack plans."

Dude, I make no distinction on this subject between Dems and Reps. The Dems are certainly more egregious, hypocritical and unprincipled, but in both cases we have a political elite that lords over us, the serfs, passing laws and spouting rhetoric that they themselves often dont live by. Until we collectively choose not to be, we're ruled by elites who live in their own privileged world and manage to get away with things the average Joe would never be able to get away with.

[maine-iac7]

Al Gore's mansion uses more than twice the electricity in one month than the average household does in an entire year.

Heck, their electric bill far exceeds my entire annual income

[GailA]

Wonder if Prince Albert ever cleaned up the toxic waste (chemicals) that his family dumped on their farm?

[turbosciencewig]

Yeah, I thought about his energy use watching his movie. He went to his old farm in a Mercury Mountaineer. Could have gone there is a little 4-banger truck. But the deal with him having that killer house in Belle Meade, well, people like nice stuff. That doesn’t excuse his usage, but it’s human nature. You think after that speech he'd be living in an Earth Dome somewhere on his pappies land. All politicians are full of crap. Does Al Gore’s electric bill invalidate his argument? No, not at all. Does it validate Bush’s Hypocrisy? No. Still doesn't mean Global Warming isn't real either. It is what it is. The guy has a big house. So what, I want one too. Stephen Colbert said it best, "I want to fight global warming, but I don't want to be inconvenienced." Also if we all used that much power and it was from wind or something with a low carbon footprint…so what. So while this is interesting, it’s not definitive. Now if he addresses this and puts a solar cell array on his roof & back yard, well that would be a good play. Besides, anyone who is paying attention read the report by the Pentagon, that predicts global catastrophe, and a sort of Fortress America situation, (find that report and read it). So obviously they see something coming, and they have some serious thinkers. I’ve seen a lot of those Giant GE Windmill blades on the Highways on the backs of specially rigged trucks. So someone has thought of this and is doing something about it. Get enough of those things up and we won’t be having this discussion. The math on those things is 1 per acre of subsidized farmland, and we power the interior of the USA. Now add the offshore wind farms, the kind Ted Kennedy doesn’t like and we power the coastal cities. (Me I like em, fascinating to look at, if you ask me). BTW, I used to work at the National Data Buoy Center in Stennis Space Center, Mississippi. There are no Meteorologists out there who question global warming.

[IrishBrigade]

There are no Meteorologists out there who question global warming.

...maybe so, but the real question; is it caused by human intervention and can it be stopped by human de-intervention? ask these weathermen that question, then watch them waffle like they were made of Bisquick...