Al Gore and Global Warming: Do as I Say, Not as I Do
Does anybody with at least a high school education believe Al Gore to be a credible spokesman for any cause whatsoever? This is a guy who while visiting Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home, pointed to a number of busts of easily recognizable Americans like Benjamin Franklin and George Washington and asked “Who are these guys?”
Now, he’s trying to resurect himself by pounding the drum of environmental doom in his own hyperbolic style. And of course, the dour faced academics and the hand-wringers of the left are riveted - they always get a rush from the prospect of any type of bad fortune.
But Gore and the rest of the rabid nutjobs that worship at the alter of environmental meltdown scenarios should take a self-examination break and start walking the talk.
The Drudge Report today published the approximate amount of fuel that then Vice President Gore and his entourage burned in traveling to the 1997 U.N. Global Warming Conference in Kyoto, Japan. While Al relaxed aboard his flight, the jet was busy spewing the highly dangerous combustion by-products from 65,597 gallons of jet fuel into the pristine atmosphere.
The average person drives a car approximately 12,000 miles per year. A gas-guzzling SUV gets maybe 12 miles to the gallon, which would leave the average gas-guzzling SUV driver with an annual total of 1000 gallons consumed.
In one extended weekend, Al Gore saw fit to pour as much polution into the delicate ecosystem as the average American would take 65 years to do, just so that he could preach to us about saving the planet! What a collossal schmuck!
May 31st, 2006 at 1:20 am
So what? The issue isn’t Gore’s consumption. The issue is the world’s and US industry’s consumption.
May 31st, 2006 at 9:10 am
Is it Dave? The fact is that due to stringent anti-pollution measures begun decades ago, U.S. industry pollutes far less than most of the rest of the world. Industrial polluters in nations that signed on to Kyoto - Spain or England for example - have found that it’s cheaper to pay the steep fines than to pay for the equipment to reduce emmissions.
The issue in the U.S. boils down to automobiles which amounts to individual Americans as the real source of pollution. Politicians like Gore view themeselves as above the fray. They don’t hold themselves to the same standards as they expect the rabble to live up to. They believe they are the exception because they are exceptional.