Gore Wants U.S. to Abandon Fossil Fuels by 2018

New York Times ^ | July 18, 2008 | David Stout

[reaganaut1]

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Al Gore said on Thursday that Americans must abandon fossil fuels within a decade and rely on the sun, the winds and other environmentally friendly sources of power, or risk losing their national security as well as their creature comforts.

“The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk,” Mr. Gore said in a speech to an energy conference here. He called for the kind of concerted national effort that enabled Americans to walk on the moon 39 years ago this month, just eight years after President John F. Kennedy famously embraced that goal.

Mr. Gore said the goal of producing all of the nation’s electricity from “renewable energy and truly clean, carbon-free sources” within 10 years is not some farfetched vision, although he said it would require fundamental changes in political thinking and personal expectations.

“This goal is achievable, affordable and transformative,” Mr. Gore said in remarks prepared for the conference. “It represents a challenge to all Americans, in every walk of life — to our political leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, engineers, and to every citizen.”

[OKIEDOC]

Gore is absolutely nuts!

[griswold3]

Al Gore is a (________)

(use your imagination to fill in the blank)

[beethovenfan]

The survival of the US is definitely at risk if we listen to this A$$hole.

[wideawake]

“Hah hah! And I want to be King of Australia!” - Ron Burgundy

[Abathar]

Oh go blow it out your ample *ss Gore. Every time he makes one of these asinine statements I have to remind myself how close he came to being our leader, and I get a shiver each and every time.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Al, the Liberal psycho, is off his Prozac again. He and Pelosi need major psychiatric help, IMO.

[Califelephant]

Is he going to start using a hang-glider to get to all of his global warming conferences?

[tatsinfla]

he also wanted to be president and lets not forget he thinks he invented the internet.

[colorado tanker]

Gore isn't nuts.

Haven't you experienced your rebirth in Obama? When the Obamessiah takes office, you can get in your car with no gas in the tank and whisper, reverently, "in the name of the Obama, the Michelle and the Algore, 'renewable energy,'" and your car will operate!

[dirtboy]

You go first, Al.

[gathersnomoss]

Who nominated this arogant, self gratifying idiot King?

[Bernard Marx]

Al Gore needs immediate and continuing psychiatric care. He is delusional and megalomaniacal. I’m not a doctor but I know crazy when I see it!

[OKIEDOC]

Hard to believe that people actually think this nutjob is some kind of savior.

[C210N]

I’d like to think we can reach the goal, not by 2018, but by the end of 2008, to abandon anything to do with AlGore. Would be great to reach this goal earlier, say by the end of the day on July 17, 2008... but December 31, 2008 will suffice.

[bmwcyle]

Can we chip in for a rocket to send ALGORE into space (one way)?

[Slapshot68]

So funny how this comes after a post about how Gore’s home electric bill went up 10%.

[Flycatcher]

“The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk,” Mr. Gore said

At least he has the decency never to employ alarmist hyperbole to manipulate the masses.

Oh, wait...

[lesser_satan]

Gore should be confined to a rubber room with no objects more dangerous than fingerpaint. He’s loonier than a shithouse rat.

[4yearlurker]

Uh...Mr.Gore. The flux capacitor does NOT exist. And I can't fit a windmill on my minivan.

[Notasoccermom]

...it would require fundamental changes in political thinking and personal expectations.

Since taking steps to make his home more environmentally-friendly last June, Gore devours an average of 17,768 kWh per month – 1,638 kWh more energy per month than the year before the renovations. By comparison, the average American household consumes 11,040 kWh in an entire year, according to the Energy Information Administration. The cost of Gore’s electric bills over the past year topped $16,533. ,

Would someone please repost the pot, kettle and black photo?

[the_devils_advocate_666]

"It represents a challenge to all Americans, in every walk of life ... and to every citizen"

With one minor exception.

[chimera]

Well, here's an opportunity to throw the bromide the 'Rats have been pushing on us right back in their ugly faces. As Peelousy and the other 'Rats would say, "That's ten years from now! It won't do anything to lower the prices paid at the pump today. Why should we do it if it's ten years in the future?!"

[SlowBoat407]

Al, you’re no Jack Kennedy.

[Scotswife]

Mr. Gore flunked divinity school.
Mr. Gore is not a scientist - and I sincerely doubt he took or passed any serious science classes.

He is a politician - that is all.

[Coffee200am]

Hardship and sacrifice now is for the better of you all, your childrens future and the future of the planet.....Besides...Your wasting my electricity...

[Truth29]

I guess he hasn't made enough off the gullible yet. What a con man.

[LetsRok]

Windpower is the greatest “boondoggle” ever created. Windmills only work when the wind is blowing and that is not guaranteed anywhere in the world so 70% of the time the electricity that they are supposed to be generating will have to come a FOSSIL FUEL BACKUP. The turbines only generate electricity when they are turning and cannot be stored.

[avacado]

"Mr. Gore said the goal of producing all of the nation’s electricity from “renewable energy and truly clean, carbon-free sources” within 10 years is not some farfetched vision,..."

Well gee-whiz Mr Asshat, perhaps you and your buddy, Slick Willy, should not have killed the Super Collider Project back in 1993! Moron!

[RightWhale]

The first commercial hydrogen fusion reactor will go on line in 2050, so let’s hold off on this Algore suggestion a while.

[SF Republican]

I want a condo on Waikiki.

[VaRepublican]

If it takes “ten years” to go from exploration, to fuel tank then how can he responsibly recommend this time frame.
Al gore has gone insane and is trying to drag the U.S.A. down with him.

[OKIEDOC]

colorado tanker wrote:
Gore isn't nuts.
Haven't you experienced your rebirth in Obama? When the Obamessiah takes office, you can get in your car with no gas in the tank and whisper, reverently, “in the name of the Obama, the Michelle and the Algore, ‘renewable energy,’” and your car will operate!

Comment:

I be Obamatized...not....

Have we as a society degenerated so far in our thinking that charlatans with idiotic ideas can command the front pages of our most prestegious newspapers.

We are in a war for survival and it is Us against the Sky Is Falling Environ-mental, selfish Algores (Democrats) of the world.

[bushfamfan]

It is very scary to realize this boob came so close to the presidency. All Demonrats are incompetent and do not deal in reality. And we are all paying for it now and in years to come. Those incompetents will deal a death blow to this country.

[Enterprise]

I would rather see the U.S. abandon fossil Gore.

[mouse1]

AlWhore has said before (oh I’m a poet) that we only had 10 years left to save the planet.

According to the doomsday clock we only have

7 years 6 months 10 days 2 hours and about 50 minutes left

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

You shouldn’t say “cannot” when discussing almost any technology. Wind power can easily be stored — at a cost. It’s a financial and economic problem, not a technological one. (I’m not saying it’s not a boondoggle.)

[Always Right]

The future according to Al:

[AU72]

AlWhore has said before (oh I’m a poet) that we only had 10 years left to save the planet.

In 1994 Ted Danson said we only had 8 years left.

[colorado tanker]

I think a lot of people are catching on to Elmer Obama Gantry. That's the only explanation I have as to why a weak candidate like McCain is polling so well against him in a year where the President and Congressional Republicans seem to be doing every blessed thing they can to get people to vote Democrat.

[truthguy]

This man's stupidity and arrogance amazes me. What I cannot believe is how the MSM takes this lunatic seriously.

My favorite story about Al Gore concerns a comment about him from a Silicon Valley heavyweight. This was during the Clinton administration when he was VP. When a reporter was interviewing this Silicon Valley CEO he happened to mention that Gore was Clinton's point man on science and technology. To this the CEO replied (paraphrasing) ...”the average high school student in Sunnyvale knows more about science and technology than Al Gore”...

(Sunnyvale= a suburb of San Jose,CA)

[Izzy Dunne]

The turbines only generate electricity when they are turning and cannot be stored.

Do you mean the electricity cannot be stored?

What do you use to start your car?

[GOPJ]

Is Gore getting more and more frantic?

[valkyry1]

Abandon fossil fuels by 2018.

A wonderful notion, it’s just not reflective of reality to the extreme.

Following Al Gores lead, I now declare that by 2020 we shall obtain 100% of all energy requirments from the (not yet invented) ‘Shipstone’ as described in Heinlien’s novel ‘Friday’

[BJClinton]

Gore Wants U.S. to Abandon Fossil Fuels by 2018

You first lard butt.

[Izzy Dunne]

In 1994 Ted Danson said we only had 8 years left.

Did he say which 8 years it was?

[Coffee200am]

Countdown To Climate Melt Down

[Arrowhead1952]

Yep, he better take care of this first. June 17th article posted on FR today.

Gore's home consumed 10% more electricity this year than last (12PM Eastern, Gore's new energy

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Therefore, anyone who purports such [things] would be labeled a lunatic, someone who needs to be placed in an insane asylum because he or she has lost their mind.

Ooops! I'm trying to post a comment about a post that's a couple slots above but it keeps redirecting me to this Gore article . . .

[neefer]

But I’m sure Al pedaled his bike to this conference /sarcasm.