March 5, 2007
THEY COULD BOTH USE ECT:
Lighting Up (MARK STEYN, March 5, 2007, NY Sun)
Stop me if you've heard this before, but the other day the Reverend Al Gore declared that "climate change" was "the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced." Ever. I believe that was the same day it was revealed that George W. Bush's ranch in Texas is more environmentally friendly than the Gore mansion in Tennessee. According to the Nashville Electric Service, the Eco-Messiah's house uses 20 times more electricity than the average American home. The average household consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours. In 2006, the Gores wolfed down nearly 221,000 kWh.221,000 kWh? What's he doing in there? Clamping Tipper to the electrodes and zapping her across the rec room every night?
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 5, 2007 6:54 AM
Of course, Gore buys carbon offsets. But anyone who accepts that as an excuse has to let the USA off the hook, since the USA is roughly carbon-neutral. Our growing forests take up about as much CO2 as our factories and SUVs emit. (This is based on measurement of CO2 in air carried by prevailing west-to-east winds, as it enters the USA on the West Coast, and leaves from the East Coast.) So the USA is no more to blame for global warming than is Al Gore.
Posted by: Bob Hawkins at March 5, 2007 11:11 AM"Carbon offsets"
It took the Catholic Church over a millenium to get to the sale of indulgences, but the First Church of Gaia got there in only a few decades. How progressive.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at March 5, 2007 12:45 PMMaybe Gore's growing a jungle of marijuana in his cellar.
Posted by: erp at March 5, 2007 1:20 PMMr. Gore is wooden enough as it is, without ECT.
Posted by: John J. Coupal at March 5, 2007 3:33 PM