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Rob,

Great post!  None of us cares how much energy Algore uses, or for what purpose.  But when he uses his position of wealth and power to try to impose on the rest of us standards of behavior that he himself is unwilling to adhere to, then, yes, the man is a hypocrite.  Period.

Speaking of hypocrites, I notice that the revelation of Gore’s personal power consumption has generated (pun intended) no public backlash from the environmental whackos of the far left.  Nor has there been any leftwing commentary noting that President Bush’s more modest Crawford, Texas home, and more modest lifestyle, are both far more environmentally friendly than those of the more flamboyant Algore.

Apparently, the “green” cause isn’t really all THAT important after all.  Surprise, surprise!

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“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

I loved this analysis of W’s eco-friendly house:

Perhaps sound ecological practices are only for those who can afford them ... Perhaps in Bush’s ... World ... if you can pay for them, fine; if not, tough. The rest of us will just have to put up with more toxic dumps and more public lands being turned over to logging, mining and oil companies.

So the left automatically accepts Algore’s excuse that the utilities for his 10,000sf house are offset with money, but when they find out that W’s 4,000sf house is ecologically friendly, they cry about how only the rich can afford to live that way.

To make matters worse, W doesn’t claim to be carbon neutral yet Algore makes money from claiming to be.

electnixon,

I don’t think the Left automatically accepts Algore’s excuse, as you suggest.  That’s far too generous.  Instead, I think it’s really a tacit acknowledgment that all this eco-friendly bullshit is just that… bullshit.

These people are all about having a cause… a credo… a faith.  The actual contents of that faith hardly matters.  If Algore were to start hawking “Soylent Green” the lunatic lemmings of the left would be lined up round the block, money (green) in hand, ready to buy.

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“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

If Algore were to start hawking “Soylent Green” the lunatic lemmings of the left would be lined up round the block, money (green) in hand, ready to buy.

I wonder where they’d get the people?

“Soylent Green uses only carbon-neutral people as ingredients”

The Saint, Algoreia (a poem)
By C. MacLeod Fuller

I am the Saint, Algoreia,

excélsis Deo Me!

Environmental haystacks

are just my cup of tea.

Once… I was Vice President

but that time is no more;

the scathing proletariat

hath swept me out the door.

Now… I’m the Ebdomadarius[1]

of the environmental choir,

deus ex machina, very lite,

and I order you, “Perspire!”

I am the authoritative throne,

and the U.N. quite agrees;

on matters of environment,

I bring all to their knees.

I am the Great and Powerful Oz!

Intone it acappella. 

Doxology before my throne:

“Its hot!  Grab an umbrella!”

Our globe is getting warm.  I swear!

Our snows are fastly melting.

Ignore white Christmas Malibu

and the frozen mid-West’s helpings.

Ignore that flatulated cows,

prove baneful as we mortals.

A scientific slip of fact -

only the sophomoric chortle. 

Ignore Kant’s song!  I’m shilling strong.

I promise, the enviro’s dire -

its categorically imperative[2]

for my performance choir.

I am the Saint, Algoreia.

I am the Great Presume.

My really inconvenient truth -

I bear Ozymandius’s[3] tomb.

My environmental fantasies

are luscious algorithms,

for turning viewpoint into cash -

I’m their enigmatic prism.

With California’s hip elites

sewn-up in my chic back-pockets,

(along with Europe’s and New York’s)

I put America on the docket. 

Mr. Redford is my friend.

Categorically, there’s no one wiser.

He doffs his Sundance boots to me,

as I play the enviro lyre.

I am the Saint, Algoreia.

Its no confabulation,[4]

and critical that you all accept,

I’m the savior of every nation.

My precepts?  They’re unquestionable.

My science?  Its uncanny.

My conclusions that the earth is flat

prove Congress the perfect nanny.

And one day, when I’ve saved the earth -

just wait - I’m sure you’ll see;

they’ll take St. Alban’s Abbey

and name it after me.

So, very soon, now just stay tuned,

I’m the one God shall replevin,[5]

He’ll come Himself, while I’m alive,

and entrust my rule with Heaven

Maybe Al Gore belives that global warming can be solved only through collectivist and government-sponsored actions, and not through convincing John Doe to carpool to work. Just a thought.

collectivist and government-sponsored actions

So he wants the govenment to force John to carpool?

collectivist and government-sponsored actions

Govt ownership of the means of production, coupled with a permanent Dem govt and nosebleed taxation and restrictive regulation.  In other words, the Soviet Union with better weather.

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"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard.” - Edmund Burke

I appreciate the truth coming out about Al Gore, to bad know one really listens.  Keep it coming, and I will continue to read and pass it on.

Again keep it up!

True Blue

As far as the environment is concerned, the only thing Algore brings to the table is about 300 pounds.

That boy needs to purchase a grocery buggy full of calorie offsets.

Dave,

There is no reason to doubt that Algore DOES believe that the problem of “global warming” can only be solved by collectivist (government forced) actions.

But the fact that he believes this hardly makes him right in his judgement, and it certainly doesn’t mean that he, or his pronouncements, should be immune from criticism.

Al “risky scheme” Gore is not exactly notorious for his veracity (Love Canal, Father of the Internet), nor for his judgment either ("no controlling legal authority").  His current status as Grand Pooh-Bah of environmental snake-oil salesmen merely proves the point.

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“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

That boy needs to purchase a grocery buggy full of calorie offsets.

THAT makes for a very interesting analogy and holds together pretty well.  Food is really just energy . . .

Hurm. . .

MY car gets up to 50 mpg on the highway, I do that by driving carefully (and not using evil brakes.) I’m generally all about efficiency and his pontificating just ticks me off.

Dave is right; Gore’s “concern” for the environment really derives mostly from the source of the Gore family fortune, “Stalin’s Capitalist” and oilman Armand Hammer.  As anyone who has visited Lake Baikal knows, Communists are renowned for their commitment to the environment.

To destroy it, at least.

After talking about electricity and nat gas consumption at the Gore household, I would also be interested in lawn care.  Do they use electric lawnmowers or gas ones (pretty bad polluters) to they water their grass or have any fertilizer applied?  What do they do to limit excess rainwater runoff or contamination of rainwater by lawn chemicals?

The Bush home has native plants and grasses which provide a habitat for natural animals and require not watering or fetilizing.  These natural plants also help to limit excess stormwater runoff.

Are these things not important to the Goracle?

From NPR, no less:
Touring the Ranch with Laura Bush
First Lady Shows Off Plant Restoration Efforts at Texas Home

Do they ... have any fertilizer applied?

en: You’re talking about the largest depository of BS east of Chappaqua, New York!

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Those who think the party or the country, will be “taught a lesson” by handing the levers of power over to the liberals will learn a lesson, but it will be at the expense of our country and her liberties. And there are no guarantees that the party or the country will come out stronger, more conservative or better positioned to win elections against the incumbent liberals.

(east encompasses the entire planet!)

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Those who think the party or the country, will be “taught a lesson” by handing the levers of power over to the liberals will learn a lesson, but it will be at the expense of our country and her liberties. And there are no guarantees that the party or the country will come out stronger, more conservative or better positioned to win elections against the incumbent liberals.

en: You’re talking about the largest depository of BS east of Chappaqua, New York!

Well, I guess it’s renewable.  I’m not sure about pollution though…

Bat One:

There is no reason to doubt that Algore DOES believe that the problem of “global warming” can only be solved by collectivist (government forced) actions.

But the fact that he believes this hardly makes him right in his judgement, and it certainly doesn’t mean that he, or his pronouncements, should be immune from criticism.

Why? If he thinks that the only way to solve global warming is through government legislation, what’s it matter what anyone does before this legislation takes effect? In other words, if the actions of single individuals won’t solve the problem anyway--it will take collective measures--why are we blaming individuals?

For another example… suppose I want to end the war in Sudan. I know it will require our President to send hundreds of thousands of troops there. In this case, should I be criticized for not personally travelling to the Sudan right now with a shotgun?

Dave, there’s a difference between being practical and being a hypocrite.  Nice job of twisting the two together.

However, if you want to go to Sudan, I’ll pay for the ammo.

If he thinks that the only way to solve global warming is through government legislation, what’s it matter what anyone does before this legislation takes effect? In other words, if the actions of single individuals won’t solve the problem anyway--it will take collective measures--why are we blaming individuals?

Dave,

Your argument, that “it doesn’t matter what anyone does before the legislation takes effect” is interesting in that it reverses the Left’s now tedious, anti-war “chicken-hawk” argument… a novel approach to be sure.  Since the only thing that will save us is a government-enforced rehab program, why not drink ourselves into oblivion in the meantime.  And like most liberal/progressive solutions it has the brazenly seductive selling point of studiously avoiding an sort of personal responsibility.

There are two separate, more fundamental problems with your approach.  In the first place, it is far from settled that the “problem” of global warming is of such certainty and magnitude that it warrants a federal legislative solution, much less the more draconian loss of American political and economic sovereignty advocated by Gore and his internationalist congregants.  Indeed, that has been the basis for virtually all the public argument to this point.

The second fundamental problem with what you say is that this is definitely NOT what Gore has been advocating at all.  On the contrary, Gore has for years cried gloom and doom for us all, and has never once suggested that we all indulge in an orgy of environmental self-indulgence while waiting for the feds to save us from ourselves.

Finally, there is the question of your Sudan metaphor…which is cute, but largely inappropriate.  In your example, no one would “criticize you for not personally traveling to the Sudan with a shotgun,” except those loony leftist “chicken hawk” folks mentioned above.  But if you were selling AC-130 Gunships and shipping containers of parts, supplies, and ammunition to the Sudanese government on the side, while calling for an end to that war, then yes, you would be criticized… for that would be a far more hypocritical action on your part and far more comparable to the hypocrisy of Algore as well.

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“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Effin brilliant Rob.  Effin brilliant!

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[Feet make good soup!]

Rob: When it seemed that Gore was asking everyone else to sacrifice while he merely bought indulgences for his wasteful ways...that was hypocritical.
Now it appears that what little sacrifice he appeared to be making was bogus - he was in fact making the carbon credit payments to himself.

Is hyper-hypocrite a word???

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Those who think the party or the country, will be “taught a lesson” by handing the levers of power over to the liberals will learn a lesson, but it will be at the expense of our country and her liberties. And there are no guarantees that the party or the country will come out stronger, more conservative or better positioned to win elections against the incumbent liberals.