Multimillionaire fraud and massive polluter Al Gore testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the need for action against global warming today during a time when much of America is suffering from a harsher-than-normal winter. Gore said that passing Obama’s stimulus plan would be a “down payment” on curbing global warming.
Remember, Al Gore is chairman and has an ownership stake in a company that was set up to trade carbon credits, Generation Investment Management, LLP. If the Democrats enact their cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions, Al Gore is going to make many millions, if not billions of dollars.
You must realize what a fraud and hypocrite Al Gore truly is. He doesn’t care about global warming. His actions speak louder than his words.
Al Gore made a fortune on the speaking circuit giving speeches about global warming. For a $100,000 speaking fee, Gore would fly out and speak to a group of people for 70-minutes, then conduct a short 10-minute question-and-answer session. When Gore didn’t travel to these events by private jet, he demanded that first-class round-trip plane tickets be purchased for him, along with a luxury hotel suite so he could freshen-up before his presentation.
Smoking Gun Article & Copy Of Gore’s Speaking Contract
If you’re looking to book Al Gore for a 75-minute “Environmental Multimedia Lecture,” the former vice president will cost you $100,000, plus travel, hotel, security, and per diem expenses.
To further illustrate the hypocrisy of Al Gore, you may remember the uproar when it was revealed a couple of years ago that Gore’s luxurious and spacious mansion was an energy hog.
Gore’s mansion used 20 times the electricity of the average American home. His natural gas bill averaged about $1,080 per month.
Gore Energy Wasting
The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.
Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.
After being publicly revealed to be a fraud and hypocrite, environmentalist Al Gore invested a few of his millions of dollars to make his home more energy efficient. This resulted in Gore using even more global warming-causing electricity than before.
Gore Uses More Electricity
In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.
“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”
Remember: Al Gore has spoken out many times against greed and the rich, and the need for higher taxes to help the poor. But he sure likes to live a lavish lifestyle, doesn’t he? He doesn’t give much of his own money away to help the poor he pretends to care about, does he? Nor does he put much effort into reducing his own carbon dioxide emissions. First class air travel, energy-guzzling mansions, luxury hotel suites… Al Gore knows how to live it up.
Only a fool could support Al Gore or give any credibility to anything he says given his hypocrisy. If Al Gore truly cared about the environment, he wouldn’t be releasing so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere with his personal electricity and natural gas usage. He wouldn’t be flying around on jets giving speeches about global warming and telling others to pollute less.
Most of all, if Al Gore truly cared about the environment, he wouldn’t charge people $100,000 for an hour worth of work to try and stop global warming. He would be doing it for free. After all, Al Gore is already rich. He doesn’t need more money. So if he cared about the environment, he would be spreading his message for free. But he isn’t.
One more thing: Al Gore excused his excessive pollution because he purchased carbon offsets. Who did he purchase them from? Himself! He bought carbon offsets from Generation Investment Management, LLP, a company in which he has an ownership stake.
Copy Of Al Gore’s Prepared Remarks To Congress Made Today
Highlights of Al Gore’s remarks with my commentary:
We have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home – Earth – is in grave danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, of course, but the conditions that have made it hospitable for human beings.
Shhh! Don’t tell Al Gore, but the year 2008 was significantly below average in temperature and we are in the middle of a colder-than-normal winter. In fact, January has been 5.3 degrees Fahrenheit below average where I am.
Moreover, we must face up to this urgent and unprecedented threat to the existence of our civilization at a time when our country must simultaneously solve two other worsening crises.
The earth has warmed and cooled many times over the millennia, Albert. It will continue to do so, you idiot.
As long as we continue to send hundreds of billions of dollars for foreign oil — year after year — to the most dangerous and unstable regions of the world, our national security will continue to be at risk.
That wouldn’t be the case if Democrats didn’t block domestic oil drilling all decade long. Al Gore opposed domestic oil drilling during the 2000 Presidential campaign.
Most importantly, as long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points which scientists have repeatedly warned – again just yesterday – will threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.
Meanwhile, Al Gore flies around on private jets and lives in mansions. Talk about hypocrisy. Do as Al Gore says, and not as he does, apparently.
We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that’s got to change.
Obama wants to borrow money from China to fund his bogus $825 billion stimulus plan, which is nothing more than give-aways to his supporters. Gore doesn’t seem to be complaining about that. I wonder why…
For years our efforts to address the growing climate crisis have been undermined by the idea that we must choose between our planet and our way of life; between our moral duty and our economic well being.
Al Gore isn’t even willing to make that choice, judging from how much energy his mansion uses and how much he travels to make more money for himself.
These are false choices. In fact, the solutions to the climate crisis are the very same solutions that will address our economic and national security crises as well.
Should we all build energy-guzzling mansions like you, Al?
In order to repower our economy, restore American economic and moral leadership in the world and regain control of our destiny, we must take bold action now.
Does anyone know if Al Gore spent millions of dollars to erect a windmill on his property? Ah, he probably doesn’t want the beauty of the environment ruined by an ugly wind turbine on his property. But that won’t stop him from trying to get ugly windmills built in Republican-voting areas.
Quickly building our capacity to generate clean electricity will lay the groundwork for the next major step needed: placing a price on carbon.
And how much would Al Gore have to pay for all the carbon dioxide he releases into the atmosphere? Oh, I forgot, Gore is a liberal elitist. We must do as he says, not as he does. Liberals always exempt themselves from their mandates.
If Congress acts right away to pass President Obama’s Recovery package and then takes decisive action this year to institute a cap-and-trade system for CO 2 emissions – as many of our states and many other countries have already done – the United States will regain its credibility and enter the Copenhagen treaty talks with a renewed authority to lead the world in shaping a fair and effective treaty.
And Al Gore will make millions of dollars via his ownership stake in Generation Investment Management, LLP! ($$$$)
Just the other day, some scientists concluded that global warming could not be stopped for at least a thousand years. The conclusion was that we could curb CO2 emissions, but it would have no impact on (mythical) global warming.
Global Warming Cannot Be Stopped
Even if by some miracle of environmental activism global carbon dioxide levels reverted to pre-industrial levels, it still would take 1,000 years or longer for the climate changes already triggered to be reversed, scientists said Monday.
Scientists that Al Gore uses to further his global warming agenda say that if carbon dioxide emissions reverted back to pre-industrial levels, that it would take 1,000 years or longer for climate changes to be reversed. So, if there is nothing that can be done, why do Democrats insist that we burden individuals and industry with carbon taxes?
Because it is about control. The solution to every real or perceived problem in the Democrats’ world is more wealth redistribution. Even if nothing can be done to solve the supposed problem, such as with “climate change”, higher taxation is the answer. And by taxing people and redistributing that money, Democrats achieve control over people.
