Hey Al, Since When Is Coal Renewable?
Al Gore has responded to the controversy surrounding his mansion’s exorbitant power use by saying that his power use is excused because he purchases his power from Tennessee Valley Authority’s “Green Power Switch” program which claims to get all of its power from renewable sources.
After perusing the TVA Green Switch website, however, that just doesn’t seem to be true. At least part of the “green switch” power comes from the burning of methane gas from human waste. Which is a renewable source, but in order for the methane to be effective it is “co-fired” with coal.
Which, the last time I checked, isn’t exactly a renewable source.
And by the way, the fact that Gore gets his power from renewable sources hardly justifies his using 20x more power than everybody else. Were Gore not hogging so much of the somewhat-green power from the TVA there would be more for other citizens to use. As a free-market capitalist I think Gore should be able to use all the power he can afford, but from Gore’s perspective this is pretty hypocritical.












