Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/22/2008 5:58:27 AM PDT by kellynla
He's a former vice president of the United States, Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author, so the lavish news coverage of Al Gore's latest brainstorm was inevitable. Less understandable is why an idea so irresponsible - in economic terms, in fact, just this side of deranged - attracted so little ridicule.
Gore proposed last week that the United States "commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years."
Not just all new electricity, mind you, which would be challenging enough. But all existing electricity, too.
This would of course require utilities to mothball hundreds of existing power plants as they launched a crash construction program of solar plants, wind farms and transmission lines costing hundreds of billions and perhaps trillions of dollars. (To put this in perspective, T. Boone Pickens, another fellow who's caught the wind-power bug, claims on his Web site, "Building wind facilities in the corridor that stretches from the Texas panhandle to North Dakota could produce 20 percent of the electricity for the United States at a cost of $1 trillion. It would take another $200 billion to build the capacity to transmit that energy to cities and towns.")
Gore would subject 300 million people to an experiment in which baseload power that is needed 24 hours a day to keep the economy - and our livelihoods - humming is replaced willy nilly by power sources still susceptible to natural disruption (such as lack of wind or lingering cloud cover), that cost more (at least in the case of solar) and are far less plentiful in some regions than others (Colorado is lucky at least in that regard).
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
algore sure is living high on the hog off his taxpayer pensions... I don’t understand? vested interests???
(I salute him for stopping his people from instigating race riots during the election-2000 "debate" -- but enough is enough!)
I find it amazing that given the problems with existing infrastructure that Gore casually tosses this idea out. I know the guy’s stupid. But the idea is so outrageous, he’s way beyond stupid.
Becoming a celebrity must either kill massive amounts of brain cells or have some psychological effect that incapacitates common sense.
He is...by everyone who has ANY knowledge of energy & economics. Of course, Al Bore and the rest of the Socialists want us all riding government mass transit like good little comrades and the oil companies owned by the government.
"Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink."
P.J.O'Rourke
And he believes the public is stupid enough to believe him.
Nobody but the Socialists are listening to this clown...
"NASHVILLE – In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research."
“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”
"In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month."
The only way energy Independence could ever be attained is to build a nuclear power plant on Al's Estate to handle just his own enormous energy consumption.
The callers here in West Texas were very upset that we will be charged the same $4 and not receive the benefit because the vast majority of energy will go east of us.
The only way to get the people to voluntarily surrender their freedoms to the state is to claim and perpetuate crisis.
That’s the ONLY reason this climate hysteria continues.
Did Al’s son ever get sentenced?
Everybody yammers on about these wind farms....yet wherever they are proposed, the locals object to them quite vociferously. So how are you going to get the locals to sign on to your plan Al & T. Boone ? Eminent Domain?
Also, I have read where there needs to be auxiliary power available, to the total value of wind farms and solar, in the event that something goes off line or has a problem like no wind or clouds or even night time. Where exactly is that going to come from?
These people are just plain stupid. We should be building breeder reactors like the French have. The waste stream is reprocessed and re-used. We have enough boiling light water reactors to provide the seed fuel for these breeders. We could build hundreds of these things and make electricity too cheap to meter.
“Did Al’s son ever get sentenced?”
Don’t know & don’t care. LOL
When Clinton sold the Elk Hills Reserves in California, they were bought by Armand Hammer’s oil company.
When Armand Hammer died, Gore bought a very large interest in the oil company.
Gore is a total idiot, and I can only think of Atlas Shrugged whenever he opens his pie-hole and starts blithering about any topic.
Somewhere in his retinue, there has to be someone who can advise him that a fickle source of energy is worse than anything we have now.
Do I think we should develop wind and geo-thermal, etc? Yes.
But- telling the idiot trust fund babies who are behind most of the enviro movement in this country that this latest spew of words from Gore’s mouth is valid is worse than The Emperor’s New Clothes...
Thank God that Gore wasn’t elected, despite his overt dismissing of military ballots.
We sorely need those military ballots this year in November. The military knows what’s going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. Martha Raddatz and her ilk do not. Unfortunately, too many voters make up their mind after listening to Martha Raddatz of ABC.
I live where there is a fair amount of wind in N Nevada, but it is NOT constant.
If someone wanted to put up a windmill on my property, I would be happy for the lease $$$.
El Rushbo asks the question: without fossil fuels, how will airplanes fly?
The only problem is that so many Dems also oppose these ‘renewable’ sources of energy when they are proposed for development in their back yards.
No wind power for Maddachusetts if it will spoil Teddy’s cruises and subsequent diesel dumps.
No nuclear power ever, especially in California.
“No nuclear power ever, especially in California.”
You’re a little behind the times.
POLL: After 30 Years, Californians Support Nuclear Power
http://www.redcounty.com/orange-county/2008/07/poll-after-30-years-california-1/
Methane gas has increased 150% in the atmosphere since the mid 1700’s. (During the same time period, Carbon dioxide increased only 30 %.) A gram of methane gas has more than 25 times the greenhouse gas impact as a gram carbon dioxide. As many know, flatulence, “farts,” are almost entirely methane gas.
Therefore, Al Gore has developed a new program to combat this obviously increasing peril to our planet, and make a little money for himself at the same time.
Everyone will be required to wear a “fart meter,” (Cost $75, available only from Al Gore) which will record and automatically transmit to a new government agency (the Federal Automatic Recording Technology Department) the occasion of each fart and the volume thereof.
For an additional fee of $4,500, interested parties can purchase a fart capture mechanism (available only from Al Gore). This 25 pound device can be conveniently worn under the special clothing available also from Al Gore in attractive shades of brown.
When full, the interested consumer can present his fart capture device to Al Gore’s recycling center, where for a fee of $0.10 per fart, the captured farts will be recycled into the US natural gas distribution system. Al Gore also will receive a modest fee of only $0.015 per fart for the energy content of the gas.
The interested consumer will also receive “fart credits” for the number of farts he recycles. These “fart credits” can be traded to other consumers, who elected not to purchase a fart capture mechanism, through Al Gore’s Fart Trading Exchange. Al Gore will extract only a small commission of $0.01 per fart for each trade.
All Consumers will be required to be “fart neutral” by a “Cap and Trade” regulation, administered by the new Federal Automatic Recording Technology Department. Legislation is being developed as we speak, by the concerned Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and her erstwhile compatriot in the Senate, Harry Reid.
Get ahead of the mandated stampede to control this growing threat to our planet. Get you fart capture mechanism now.
Simply contact Al Gore and follow his instructions.
I said DEMS, meaning hard core pols and their supporters, not the general public.
The public is starting to ‘get it’ that we need to develop all the forms of energy generation that have hitherto been off limits because we could afford to ignore them.
“I don’t understand? vested interests???”
Well, wind and sun energy require backup systems to tide over the down times, plus the ability to switch over in ten years is patently ridiculous. Rides Gore to the rescue: “no problem, do as I do. Purchase carbon credits for your non-compliance with the rules and sleep with a clear conscience.” And Gore happens to have a trenchcoat full of carbon credits for sale.
excuse me, “professor”...you said “no nuclear power ever , especially in CA”...I may not have a Masters but I can still read English. LOL
and even smart guys like you should know to never say “no nuclear power ever, especially in CA” when we ALREADY have “nuclear power in CA”...
good day
Nuclear?
“No nuclear power ever, especially in California.”
“California also has four commercial nuclear power plants”
http://www.energy.ca.gov/nuclear/california.html
See, you can learn something every day...professor...
If we could harness the energy from all that hot air emanating from AlGore, our energy ‘crisis’ would be solved.
Yes, he got a life sentence of having a moron for a father.
That award severely tainted the prize for past and future awards.
The 2007 Peace prize was divided equally between: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
and
Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr., USA, 1948-
For their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
Their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge apparently include Al Gore’s admission that it is okay to lie about global warming
Al Gore quote :
"In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous (global warming) is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis."
This is true, lol.
INTREP
algore may be an idiot but he's laughing all the way to the banks he own.
As far as the babe on ABC or whatever, who in the [bleep] is watching this stuff. While encouraging in a way, scary in another, sheeple aren't buying the media hype as they used to.
Interestingly enough Mr. Carroll likens Gore’s idiotic plans to Mao’s Great Leap Forward plans of China’s failed communist past. We can call Gore’s stupidity The Great Leap Backwards.
bttt
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”
P.J.O’Rourke
Love that quote. PJ is the best kinda liberal. An ex-liberal.
“This would of course require utilities to mothball hundreds of existing power plants as they launched a crash construction program of solar plants, wind farms and transmission lines costing hundreds of billions and perhaps trillions of dollars.”
It would be a project of Stalinistic proportions with similar costs and results.
That was so good I copied it and sent it to friends.
You’re a little behind the times. POLL: After 30 Years, Californians Support Nuclear Power
Don't kid yourself. It doesn't matter how many Californians want something, as long as the Lefties can get one judge to stop them. There won't be any new nukes in California until the last Joan Baez groupie dies in the cold dark, and is eaten by spotted owls.
These people really don't have a clue what it takes to make and deliver electricity. They don't even begin to understand the scale of the infrastructure investment required to replace 80% of the generating capacity of this nation.
And they also oppose Gay Marriage.
The Leftist thugs running that state don't give a damn what the people think.
Glad you enjoyed the satire. Send it to whomever you want.
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