Tipper (sobbing): Is it true Al, are you really going through with this plan to cut our carbon footprint??
Al (stoicly): It’s going to be ok boopsie, but we need to do this. Look, I’ve found 2 rooms that weren’t on the original drawings, we don’t even use them, I’m not sure I could have found them without this map. Anyway, we’re going to change the AC setting for those rooms from 69 degrees to about 75. If we do need to use them they will cool down quickly, but when we aren’t using them, we are seriously making a dent in our footprint.
Tipper (happy): Oh Al, your so good at this environmental stuff!
Ah, but that isn’t the case. It’s more like someone running around fighting for bigger cages for all the chickens in the world except his.
There is no reason, except for personal choice, for Gore to live in a house that requires that much energy. Why in the hell would the Gore need to use 25 kW of power every hour?
I read an article about Gore’s house and he uses solar power etc. and uses very little of public energy. The email going around is not correct according the article, His house has been changed at a great cost.
One cannot really say Gore is worse than any person who buys a large house with high ceilings etc. and pays to have them heated or air conditioned. Most of the houses around our area are 4 and 5 bedrooms and more with 20 foot ceilings.
There is energy wasted with night football, baseball, and many other sports, plus car racing and amusement and water parks etc. Movie theaters etc.
So, Gore is no more maybe (even less) a user of public energy than 90& of Americans.I wonder if Bush people like to make comparisons so they think they can build Bush up.
What we can do is what we’ve been doing and that’s not follow his example.
Off the top of my head:
[ul]M parents used a solar blanket to heat their pool in the 70’s. [/ul]
[ul]I’ve always driven economy cars[/ul]
[ul]I use CFL bulbs only because LED’s have not made it to mainstream stores. [/ul]
[ul]I planted slow growing grass that doesn’t need a lot of water. [/ul]
[ul]I’m working on a mods to my car that extend mileage and reduce emissions.[/ul]
My friends and family have always done what Al Gore should have been doing when he started selling the end of the world as a business.
Find the place in everything Al Gore has said where he recommends for anyone to scale back on their quality of life. It’s as simple as that. Otherwise, I don’t see how you could be saying that your metaphor is related to Al Gore. Outside of recommending to move away from incandescent light bulbs, I haven’t seen him make any recommendations that go inside the individual home. And if there are, I assume that they would be on a similar level of things that can be done just as well with a change in technology that won’t in any way decrease the quality of life of the populace.
You’re just not going to be able to win a fight that tells people to give up the things they’re used to (like eating chicken or having a heated pool.) Only institutional and infrastructure changes are realistic solutions. If he’s made any recommendations that aren’t institutional/infrastructural, then he’s an idiot before he’s a hypocrite, and I doubt that he is that.
Jealous?
But, again, who cares? His argument isn’t for people to live with less energy than they are used to currently. You can’t say that he’s asking other people to cut back and then not cutting back himself–because he hasn’t asked them to do so. Or if he has, find me a cite to that effect.
Shodan, I read the thread before posting, but I must have missed it. Are you afraid of Gore using up the sun? Are you afraid of his using up the wind? And with all of those conservatives in Belle Meade, there is an endless supply of methane gas. He uses these as energy sources. So not all of this talk about the energy he uses is pertinent.
Do we know how much of his energy comes from the Nashville Electric Service?
That cite from the TCPR is highly suspect. I checked it out (since the T stands for Tennessee and I’m from Tennessee and had never heard of it). Five of the six news articles on their home page (http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/page.php?page_id=35) were about Gore’s energy consumption. Do you think perhaps they have an agenda?
At any rate, the coal-burning plants provide about 60 percent of TVA’s energy – not all of it. Cite.
Global warming is a strategic threat. The concentration of carbon dioxide and other heat-absorbing molecules has increased by almost 25 percent since World War II, posing a worldwide threat to the earth’s ability to regulate the amount of heat from the sun retained in the atmosphere. This increase in heat seriously threatens the global climate equilibrium that determines the patterns of winds, rainfall, surface temperatures, ocean currents, and sea level.
By default, he’s advocating a reduction of Co2. He flies private jets to venues where he charges $100,000 per speech to talk about the importance of reducing Co2. He used that well-earned income to build a huge swimming pool heated with gas. It’s not like he has the excuse of rehabbing a drafty old mansion, he deliberately created a freakshow of unnecessary Co2 when he built this pool (not to mention the whole private jet thing).
Apparently it’s only a strategic threat to us shmo’s who actually try to reduce our Co2 footprint. He’s a hypocrite.
When he was promoting the film, the studio paid for a private plane to get him from one location to another. (I make no excuses for him. I think he should have put his foot down and said no.} But are you sure that he is taking a private jet now just to make speeches? You may be correct, but give us a recent cite please.
Certainly being the Presiden of The United States would have an effect on that which Bush could never hope to change. I’m sure by some proxy Bush would have a bigger carbon footprint over Gore if all he did was lay in bed all day. The POTUS has a staff that is massive.
Also, it’s all crap anyway, because Gore is preaching to us about our carbon usage. It’s amazing he can keep a straight face.
Yes I did.
I have recieved a lot of emils from Gore haters that insisted that he used up so much energy in his house, when I read the article it showed his house was Greener than most.
There is a lot of wasted energy by most Americans and even by some of the Green (so Called) people.
I have never been to Gore’s house so I would not say he was a hypocrite on some other persons word. Just as the emails spread the untruth that Obama was a Muslim.( Even if he was that should not make him a bad candidate for president).
He also uses over a thousand dollars a month in natural gas, which produces carbon dioxide.
No, I think perhaps you are casting around for a reason to deny the documented facts - that Algore is consuming hugely disproportionate amounts of energy while preaching to the rest of us “do as I say, not as I do”.
That’s nice. Nobody claimed that the TVA got all of their energy from coal - but since your cite demonstrates that they get most of it from coal, then Algore’s carbon footprint is therefore much, much larger than the rest of America, and he is a hypocrite.
Duh.
I don’t think you (or monavis) did read the thread.
Besides the recent video of him using a G2 and a limo last year? Not sure how to document how many times he does that as that would be information he’d like to remain private.
Your site was a little cryptic about the 90% reduction in natural gas:
That bill has gone down 90 percent, she said. And when the Gores do power up, they pay for renewable resources, like wind and solar power or methane gas.
Sounds like they’re switching to methane to heat their pool.