Posted on 03/03/2007 6:52:00 AM PST by kellynla
Al Gore defends his extraordinary personal energy usage by telling critics he maintains a "carbon neutral" lifestyle by buying "carbon offsets," but the company that receives his payments turns out to be partly owned and chaired by the former vice president himself.
Gore has built a "green money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including himself, but he set it up so that the average Joe can't afford to play on Gore's terms," writes blogger Dan Riehl.
Gore has described the lifestyle he and his wife Tipper live as "carbon neutral," meaning he tries to offset any energy usage, including plane flights and car trips, by "purchasing verifiable reductions in CO2 elsewhere."
But it turns out he pays for his extra-large carbon footprint through Generation Investment Management, a London-based company with offices in Washington, D.C., for which he serves as chairman. The company was established to take financial advantage of new technologies and solutions related to combating "global warming," reports blogger Bill Hobbs.
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Generation Investment Management's U.S. branch is headed by a former Gore staffer and fund-raiser, Peter S. Knight, who once was the target of probes by the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice.
Hobbs points out Gore stands to make a lot of money from his promotion of the alleged "global warming" threat, which is disputed by many mainstream scientists.
"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," Hobbs writes. "To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy 'carbon offsets' through Generation Investment Management – he buys stocks."
As WND reported, Gore, whose film warning of a coming cataclysm due to man-made "global warming" won two Oscars, has a mansion in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville that consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, citing data from the Nashville Electric Service.
The think tanks says since the release of Gore's film, the former presidential candidate's energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kilowatt-hours per month in 2005, to 18,400 per month in 2006.
Excellent! BUMP
I wonder if it was the clinton machine that spread this news around....
Absolutely! He's a bona fide hypocrite.
Isn't Algore still on the board of Occidental Petroleum? I know he was when they were being sued for displacing indigenous people in some jungle down in S.A. Also, Algore was tagged and fined numerous times by the EPA for mining effluent discharges from his Caney Fork River farm. See, Armand Hammer (the uber-commie capitalist - like Soros) gave the farm to Algore's Dad - Algore Sr. because they were such special friends. Algore Sr. was a bought and paid for Senator in Hammer's back pocket. Hammer's zinc mine keeps running and he gave some of the surface property to the Gore syndicate - along with a fair chunk of Occidental.
Lying swine - one and all.
Did Al ever clean up that sewage sippage on his rental property in Tennesee?
Funny how NO media asks Al Gore about Occidental, ARmand Hammer, his ZINC mine on his property, and now his energy-guzzling McMAnsion!!
Haven't heard. Probably not. LOL
that's sEEpage.....
Liberals are raping the land and destroying the planet!
Shout this news from the rooftops. 'Carbon Offset' is just as made up as 'global warming' - a predent societal cure for a pretend societal ailment.
Gore inherited his dad's stock in the Communist Armand Hammer's company.
I'm intrigued by this "growing market" of carbon offsets. Gore has now proven to me that there's money to be made on the "destruction of the planet".
My brother and I co-own a 138 acre parcel of land in our former home state of Louisiana. About 80 acres of it are useless bottom land. I think I'll propose to the hypocrite, Gore, that he can buy a $500 a month "carbon offset" from me for which I'll promise to plant one oak sapling a month.
A good deal all around, eh? $500 dollars a month to me and at the same time another excuse for Boy Gore to keep burning those mega-KWhs in his mansion.
At what point will someone look at prosecuting him for scamming the system? At the very least, someone should indict him the way the lefties keep indicting conservatives over trumped up charges.
Gore has now proven to me that there's money to be made on the "destruction of the planet" acting like an idiot and convincing many people to believe his garbage.
Yes, but he (Algore, Jr.) served (or serves?) on the board and directly profits from the earth's destruction (as he might put it).
Thanks - you just reminded me to order beans for lunch.
"I wish he would live in a cold dark cave "
Then he would truly be an oGre!
I don't follow! 300 as opposed to what?!. What does this mean? How is "eligibility" determined?
He's a fake phoney fraud. He is a typical liberal elite who wants laws for the common herd but not for him.
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