Al Gore - Super Hypocrite

Sometimes I get so fustrated with the condescending attitude that the self-proclaimed elite (aka the majority of leadership in the Democratic Party) has towards the rest of us. they think we are a bunch of id-duh-ots who will blindly accept anything they say as truth. I am dealing with that on a local level with my rep in the Iowa House (& Speaker of the House as well) & Gov. Culver on the recently passed legislation legalizing cloning that they claim is only a bill to allow stem cell research. More on that in another post when I get a few more things together to face Rep. Murphy at the monthly CrackerBarrell here in DBQ.

Anyhow on to the real "Inconvinient Truth" that you may have heard about by now, Al Gore is secretly the inspiration used by the Alliance to Save Energy & the Ad Council as the model for their new promo Energy Hog. Up until now I never noticed the resemblence that much. But now that I take a closer look I can see it. (Note: I agree with the idea of saving energy by using more efficent lights etc where possible. The reason, it saves me money & is simply good Christian stewardship of our resources. It has nothing to do with any of the wacko, moonbat enviro-nut Gaia, Earth worship BS. It just strikes me as common sense to use our resources wisely. I'm still not convinced that global warming is caused by us. More on that also in another post.) However, it seems that the Left Coast Hollywood liberals are worshipping at the feet of Al Gore because he is saying what they are saying about saving the environment & doing what they are doing to do so (just the opposite of what they say). There are a few people out there who are sincere, like Ed Begley Jr. But for the most part they say 1 thing to everyone else & make all kinds of excuses to jsutify doing the opposite.

Unlike the Energy Hog program, which offers a lot of free & low cost suggestions to make your life energy efficent without major sacrifice, Al Gore & his ilk are calling on all of us to make major sacrifices & change our lifestyles. Too bad Al Gore isn't willing to do the same. It turns out that the former Veep is 1 of Nashville Electric Service (NES)'s biggest customers. & his natural gas consumption is doing its part to keep the economy booming also.

According to a report by The Tennessee Center for Policy Research Al Gore's mansion (1 of his many energy inefficent resdences he owns) located in the Belle Meade area of Nashville uses more electricity in a month than the average home does in a year. According to the US Dept of Energy the average US household uses 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year. According to NES Gore's domicile used 221,000 kWh in 2006. Last August alone he used 22,619 kWh. His monthly bill comes to an average of $1,359. According to the report things haven't improved over the years either: "Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006." Add to that an average natural gas bill of $1,080 per month last year & you come to a total of nearly $30,000 in utility bills alone for the year. & that doesn't include what he spends for gas & the fuel used by the private jets he uses. (See Does Al Gore Need to Go on an Energy Diet? & Al Gore visits Berkeley, charges up Prop. 87 rally for more on that side of his hypocricy.)

So, how does Mr. Energy Hog justify being the leader in saving the planet while doing the very things he decries for the rest of us.? Simple, he buys up carbon offsets. What are they? Well as the Transnational Institute puts it; "Carbon offsets are the modern day indulgences, sold to an increasingly carbon conscious public to absolve their climate sins." Sounds good doesn't it? But the TNI report on offsets goes on to say: "Scratch the surface, however, and a disturbing picture emerges, where creative accountancy and elaborate shell games cover up the impossibility of verifying genuine climate change benefits, and where communities in the South often have little choice as offset projects are inflicted on them." Oops, not so good. & lest you think this group is a right wing anti-environmental group they describe themselves as "an international network of activist-scholars committed to critical analyses of the global problems of today and tomorrow, with a view to providing intellectual support to those movements concerned to steer the world in a democratic, equitable and environmentally sustainable direction."

Of course this doesn't come cheap for someone who uses as much as Gore does.

Again, some of the projects are good, like planting more trees (American Forrests for example says they will plant trees at $1 each.). That is if the groups are real & actually follow through. & I am sure that most of them are. But, do it because you want to be a good steward, not to absolve your guilt for not recycling etc. (As an aside, I try to recycle, again because it is the right thing to do. & I do the best I can under my circumstances & don't lose sleep about where I can't do better.) & I salute those groups that are doing the things like planting trees. They have found a way to do something environmentally right & do it in the capitalist way that is what makes America great.

I disagree with the use of the term indulgence to describe these offsets. In Catholic theology an indulgence is the remission of temporal punishment after a person has repented of & confessed their sin. A person has to be willing to try & avoid doing the same sin in the future. These people aren't 1 bit sorry, nor are they trying to avoid repeating the sin. They are looking for an excuse to continue doing what they consider a sin for everyone else. It is a lie on top of a lie. & they make others pay for their sins.

Meanwhile, IowaHawk has come up with a great take on the absurdity of what they are trying to do:

Repent, Sinners!
Earn Eco-Salvation the Quick and Easy Iowahawk Way

They have even created their own bumper stickers that capture the absurdity of Gore's credits.


I think that says it all.

People like Al Gore, et al, are a group that think they know what is best for all of us. They want the state to run our lives with them in control. Sounds a lot to me like the way things were in the Soviet Union. & we know how well that worked out for the average person. Everyone was supposed to be equal, but some (the ruling elite) were more equal than others, getting everything while the average person, like you & me, didn't. They want a socialist state, they hate capitalism & what this country stands for.

They are trying to scare us with so-called scientific information that isn't as widely accepted as they claim. (See The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Global Warming and Environmentalism by Christopher C. Horner for another take.) Meanwhile here is an ad made by the creators of Futurama to promote An Inconvinient Truth. What they don't realize is the title tells the real truth they are trying to use scare tactics to get you to blindly follow what they want you to do. Gee, weren't threats & terror the methods used by the fascists to get people to bend to thier will? Anyhow, the video does have its funny moments. So here it is:

A Terrifying Message from Al Gore

(Picture of Energy Hog used per info on Wikipedia that states: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.)