Al Gore: Global Hypocricy

[Psycho4Bud]

The sky is falling he cry's but does he practice what he preaches?


Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.

But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.
Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe - USATODAY.com

In the past, Al Gore has made his environmental positions a big part of his message, notably in his book "Earth in the Balance", which sold well. We don't critique candidates' policy positions, but some of that may come back to haunt him by making him look extreme, trendy or hypocritical.

Gore runs the risk of being shown up as a hypocrite, the way Mike Dukakis was in 1998 after Boston Harbor's pollution problem was exposed.

One example is the Pigeon River in North Carolina and east Tennesee. The Champion International paper mill has pumped tons of chemicals and byproducts into it for years, turning it the color of cofee and adding a sulfurish smell. Gore campaigned hard against this pollution and lobbied the EPA to crack down. But in 1987, as Gore started running for president the first time, he was pressured by 2 politicians whose support he craved for the North Carolina Super Tuesday primary. Terry Sanford (then a Senator) and Jamie Clarke (North Carolina congressmen) lobbied him hard to ease up on Champion. Gore did, writing to the EPA again and now asking for a more permissive water pollution standard. Sanford and Clarke endorsed him, and Gore won the state handily.

Another example is a Gore family property that has been mined for zinc and germanium for decades. The Vice-President and his dad, the late Senator Albert Gore, Sr., obtained the land in a very favorable deal with the late Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum. Gore, Sr. was heavily supported by Hammer financially, and carried his water in the U.S. Senate.

Back in 1972, when zinc was discovered across the river from the Gore family land in Carthage, TN, Hammer sent engineers out and offered $20,000 per year for a mineral rights lease on some property owned by a church that had been willed the land. Instead, they wanted to sell and Hammer won a bidding war to buy the land for $160,000. He then sold it to Gore Jr. and Sr. for the same amount, and immediately started leasing the land back from him for the same $20,000. Lynwood Burkhalter, who in the 70s was president of the company that assumed this lease from Occidental Petroleum, called the payments "extraordinarily large."

Mining is, of course, a very messy business environmentally. The mine itself hasn't been that bad. Republicans have claimed that it's polluting the local drinking water, but according to the Wall Street Journal those problems "are actually very minor." However, the Journal notes that the plant in Clarksville TN, which processes the Gore minerals, is a federal Superfund site contaminated with cadmium and mercury, posing "a threat to the human food chain."


There's also a damning quote about cutting down Yew trees to make a promising cancer treatment that we used to include in our Gore quotes section. Except that the really embarrassing part -- which we got from an editorial in the Austin, Texas American Statesman -- turns out to be distorted and out of context. The full quote, which is still a little odd, is:

"The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die. It seems an easy choice -- sacrifice the tree for a human life -- until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated, that only specimens more than a hundred years old contain the potent chemical in their bark, and that there are very few of these yews remaining on earth." - Gore, in "Earth in the Balance", p. 119

The distorted version puts a period after "for each patient treated," as if the ratio of trees to humans was what bothered Gore. In reality, his point is that treating all current cancer patients would destroy all of the trees, leaving none of the drug for future cancer patients.
Skeleton Closet - Al Gore, The Dark Side



Should be a lesson to all.........take a politicians word for what it's worth, a grain of salt.

REAL nice that the rest of the industrialized world should be compelled to cut back.......why, so Al and Tipper can jump another private jet? :S4:

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

Psycho4Bud Reviewed by Psycho4Bud on 02-19-2007. Al Gore: Global Hypocricy The sky is falling he cry's but does he practice what he preaches? Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself. Then there is the Rating: 5

[delusionsofNORMALity]

once again i find myself saying, "are you really surprised?"

the shell game goes on and it's all ignored because it might be for the greater good. the reactionaries will jump on it, the green freaks will claim it's all a lie and in the morning it's business as usual. i'm getting quite tired and the cold is seeming warmer all the time.

[Purple Banana]

Al Gore is a soggy piece of bread, who is blander than, well, something so bland it defies description. It's just that bland.

He's not a scientist. He's not a climatologist. What the hell IS he, besides another political talking head?

Instead of the environmentalists and industrialists debating like children about whether or not Global Warming is ocurring, they need to sit down and talk about policies that make sense and are cost efficient. Cleaning Earth is not easy nor cheap, but I'm sure there are programs that can be invested in that aren't a total load of crap, and will help make our planet more eco-friendly.

[Psycho4Bud]

Utility records show the Gore family paid an average monthly electric bill of about $1,200 last year for its 10,000-square-foot home.

The Gores used about 191,000 kilowatt hours in 2006, according to bills reviewed by The Associated Press. The typical Nashville household uses about 15,600 kilowatt-hours per year.

The group said that Gore used nearly 221,000 kilowatt hours last year and that his average monthly electric bill was $1,359. Johnson said his group got its figures from Nashville Electric Service.
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And thats just for the home in Tennessee! I guess the REAL "Inconvenient Truth" is that this dude has no concept of practice what you preach.........my average bill last year was about $175/month. Maybe I should make a movie....LMAO!!!

And there are some that think this dude should run in "08"? PLEASE DO!!! Another one that can bite the dust........

Have a good one!:s4:

[Zimzum]

CNN reports almost $2,500 a month bill between gas and electric. I bet its due to a massive grow-op of pine trees in his basement. :jointsmile:

I like the cause, but they could have found a bit better spokes person for it. Like a crack head telling you not to do crack.

[iPot]

Well there is an inconvenent truth if i ever heard one.

[Bong30]

Well there is an inconvenent truth if i ever heard one.

The truth is Al Gore is Politician that doesnt really care about the enviroment, he just cares about getting the younger voter to like him. So when Hillary, and Hussien, sling so much Mud at each other they look stupid. He is going to sweep in and save the dems.................NOT.


Here is another Part of the Disorder........

ever notice if you even try to talk about global warming with a lib....it is a closed book NOT EVEN OPEN FOR DEBATE.......HAHAHAHAHAH that is funny.

Like that dumb chic from the weather channel...."if you dont believe the lib view of global warming you should lose your Licenese"....talk about Socialist ding bat......She should be in old USSR...getting the PC camps in Gear.

They way you fix a problem ( if there is one) you debate the problem ,and different ways to fix it...Once you cut off Debate......Your a LIberal.

[notransfer]

i heard about this on the news yesterday...

i think its screwed up lol i dont have much more to say about it...

save the earth while not doing anything to save the earth.

i wanna say hypocrite but thats redundant at this point...

[mrdevious]

ever notice if you even try to talk about global warming with a lib....it is a closed book NOT EVEN OPEN FOR DEBATE.......HAHAHAHAHAH that is funny.

Ever notice that the actions of some liberals are frequently attributed to all liberals? Damn that's convenient. In fact people seem to enjoy doing that with whatever group they're crusading against. Makes the world nice and easy to understand.

[Bong30]

OK so i lump them all together......

what do you think about them cutting off the debate.......??????


When Al Idiot Gore says its the "TRUTH" doesnt leave much room for debate huh?

what about the hollywood liberal idiots? Fly in on there jets and drive up in prius?

What about the lady from the weather channel?

any debate on the points?