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Old 02-28-2007, 06:05 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by Debaser
What a pathetic attack that evaporates when you get all the facts.

Gore voluntarily pays almost 50% more expensive "green" power from renewable sources like wind and solar.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/0...cord-straight/

He also purchases carbon offsets to reduce his carbon footprint to zero.
Part of the justification for the increased use is "He has 20 rooms in his house, and a guest house, and offices!" Pardon me while I shed a tear for the fact that Al Gore has an overly large house that he has to waste a lot of energy on.

If he's really as gravely serious about the environment as he claims he is, why doesn't he reduce his own energy usage by living in a more modest home and then still pay out the same amount of money each month to help friends, neighbors, etc. afford clean energy for their households? (spread the "green" around, literally and figuratively) As it is, he's still one guy using 20 households worth of energy for himself when he doesn't have to, no matter how much he pays for it. The message he's sending right now is "Its fine to use more energy than you really need, as long as you can afford to cover your own ass so you don't feel guilty about it." That sort of thing is probably not going to inspire the masses out there to go out of their way to reduce their energy usage and carbon footprints.

 
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