Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/17/2008 10:09:38 AM PDT by 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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
alGore is a national disgrace.
Yeah, Algore, you’re correct. I think I’ll head down to my local auto dealer and by one of those wind-powered cars they have down there.
Opening new land, anywhere, to oil production is absolutely verboten to any Democrat because of what the enviros would do to him. It's like being reasonable on any issue related to abortion, they can't go there and survive in that party.
And at the same time the reasons they offer not to drill are such stupid laughers, any voter can understand the opposition is just idiotic. Any new leases would not produce for years? OK, and the reason we didn't do that years ago is the oil would only have come online TODAY??? Thanks, Dims!
Are there still people who listen to this "boob".
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I am laughing even though alGore is an absolute disaster.
alGore acts like Major King Kong but thinks of himself as the lead player in the Man From La Mancha. (err..I know Man of La Mancha)
I can see alGore now chasing after wind currents for his mills in a gas guzzling Lear Jet screaming (at the top of his lungs like Major “King” Kong AKA Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove) suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome casting himself as the “mad” knight, Don Quixote.
Abandon Fossil Fools
But on those days, where will you get your power from? If you are looking to your "power provider", then it will have to be ready for your demand, which means it will already have to be up and running.
You may, on an individual level, be able to save some money initially, but once you start looking at a regional level, the power providers are going to be forced to up their rates drastically to keep their equipment ready and running....you can't just throw a switch and get it. Power "on demand" will not be cheap.
The goal to reach the moon was a narrowly defined project (as what Manhatten) that had a very focused outcome. The moon landing did not mean that everyone was now going to have their own vehicle to go to the moon nor did it mean that the other developments from the project were immediately going to replace older technologies.
A concerted effort on all fronts (research, drilling, technology development) are all important and should be simultaneously pursued however success would not mean that all of our citizens would immediately have a replacement for auto/truck fuel, home heating and cooking or for all of the oil based products we now use. It also does not follow that the switch to these new technologies would be immediately affordable for all.
Gore is a nitwit who received a near failing grade in the only college level science course he took and it was what most would term a “bonehead” course at that. Why anyone would believe anything he has to say about science or technology is beyond me.
Gore sets 'moon shot' goal on climate change
'Nightly News' Finds Green Lining in High Gas Price Cloud
Global Warming on Free Republic
Got a link for that? Not that I doubt it in the least, but it sure would be a nice reference to have and to hold.
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alGore and I have something in common.
We both got D's in a subject, he in weird science and me in English.
Another thing we have in common is that neither one of us ever sufficiently recovered or got any smarter in our failing subject.
I thought hs drivel faded with his *Global Fooling*
Bump, he's really lost his mind, for real. Hope he is the Rats keynote speaker, please, please, please.
Could you post a link to the windmill your looking at? thanks
I don’t have an immediate link, but during the 2000 election when they were calling Bush stupid they finally released a comparison of their academic records. If Bush is that stupid overall then Algore has the mental capacity of a gnat. The D in general science and his failure in two graduate programs stood out.
They need to be heard and seen a lot less.
Here is one of the sources:
http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html
Here is the WaPo’s article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A37397-2000Mar18
The Republican bill, the Gas Price Reduction Act needs to be passed by Congress. It in part will lift the Democrat bans on 118 billion barrels of oil in the outer Continental Shelf and it will also lift the ban on a trillion barrels of oil in oil shale in the Western United States which no one knows about. Democrats of course will try to stop this bill. Please call Republican Mitch McConnell to thank him for pushing this bill and please send these links to everyone.
“The ‘Find More’ provisions(in the bill) include increased exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf, where states want it, and lifting the ban on western oil shale exploration.“We should also lift the ban on oil shale development which the new Democrat Congress enacted last year. Our western states are sitting on a sea of oil three times as large as the oil reserves in Saudi Arabia. Yet, at the insistence of the Democrat majority, we aren’t allowed to touch it. They’ve put a 100 percent ban on oil shale exploration. With gas prices at more than $4 a gallon, this prohibition makes no sense.
Especially on L.A. freeways like the 405 and 101.
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