Is Al Gore a Hypocrite?
I took a look at Al Gore’s Oscar winning ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. LOVED it! It was a real eye opener for the entire planet. He has done that presentation over 1000 times and you can only look at pure conviction as the source of the inspired presentation after so many deliveries. You’d have thought it to be his first.
I’d recently read that Al uses enough energy to light a small city in his 12,000 square foot home. His response to this was that he invests in a lot of alternative fuel companies and thus he’s vindicated with his own energy usage. He certainly hasn’t invested in becoming self sufficient for his own energy usage. I think he’d encouraged that in the film.
I saw a picture of the homestead. I certainly didn’t see an investment in a windmill or solar panel farm on his property. He invests for a long term gain and return on his money. He doesn’t ‘walk the walk’ as they say.
I don’t begrudge a guy for having a big house. He has three big houses by the way. I don’t begrudge a guy a big gas guzzling car. My problem with Al Gore is that after all the holier than thou presentations, senate hearings, oscar winning movie etc. he has the audacity to proclaim that he can do whatever he wants from an energy standpoint because of how he invests.
Al Gore is not only a hypocrite. He’s the problem. He’s another politician with the traditional ‘do as I say not as I do’ position. I can’t afford nor do I have the space for a wind farm or solar panels to power my condominium. He has both the money and the space to lead by example. He hasn’t. What does that say about him?
He’s pushing the burden off on the middle class such that he and other elitists don’t need to be inconvenienced. That’s the real ‘Inconvenient Truth’.
I’d recently read that Al uses enough energy to light a small city in his 12,000 square foot home. His response to this was that he invests in a lot of alternative fuel companies and thus he’s vindicated with his own energy usage. He certainly hasn’t invested in becoming self sufficient for his own energy usage. I think he’d encouraged that in the film.
I saw a picture of the homestead. I certainly didn’t see an investment in a windmill or solar panel farm on his property. He invests for a long term gain and return on his money. He doesn’t ‘walk the walk’ as they say.
I don’t begrudge a guy for having a big house. He has three big houses by the way. I don’t begrudge a guy a big gas guzzling car. My problem with Al Gore is that after all the holier than thou presentations, senate hearings, oscar winning movie etc. he has the audacity to proclaim that he can do whatever he wants from an energy standpoint because of how he invests.
Al Gore is not only a hypocrite. He’s the problem. He’s another politician with the traditional ‘do as I say not as I do’ position. I can’t afford nor do I have the space for a wind farm or solar panels to power my condominium. He has both the money and the space to lead by example. He hasn’t. What does that say about him?
He’s pushing the burden off on the middle class such that he and other elitists don’t need to be inconvenienced. That’s the real ‘Inconvenient Truth’.
posted by Alibi Network at 11:55 PM
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Al Gore has actually been trying for some time now to put solar panels on his property, but he had to get zoning and other ordinances changed in order to do so. Tis is from The Tennessean Newspaper (tennessean.com):
Tuesday, 04/03/07
Gore's home one step closer to getting solar panels
By ANNE PAINE
Staff Writer
A change in Belle Meade's zoning laws, which took effect Sunday, will let former Vice President Al Gore get on with the process of putting solar panels on his home.
All he needs now is a nod from the satellite city's board of zoning appeals, which
will consider the request April 17.
The city's overhauled laws will permit electricity-generating solar panels if neighbors can't see them, said Terry Franklin, the city building official.
"With the fact that the Gores have a lot of that … heavily landscaped, and with a plan to put it on a flat roof area, it should be permissible," he said.
City leaders had concerns about "unsightly applications" of solar panels, he said. The answer was to give the city control by requiring a conditional use permit for any homeowner wanting to add them.
The solar panels on the Gores' Lynnwood Boulevard home should provide about 6,264 kilowatt hours of electricity a year, according to Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider.
Jim Purcell, Nashville Electric Service energy service manager, said that's enough to power an electric water heater or heat a swimming pool. "That's a significant load there," he said.
Gore, who is crusading against global warming, had been called a hypocrite by critics for having electric bills that averaged about $1,200 a month last year, on top of natural gas bills.
Solar panels for Gore's 10,000-square-foot home were part of a renovation that began last summer, Kreider said.
His electric bill since November has included a $432 a month extra payment to go toward "green energy," she said.
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Demarco
AL GORE IS AHYPOTCRIT HE STILL HAS NO HYBRIDS IN HIS GARAGE AND NONE OF HIS PLANES WORK BY RUBBERBAND
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