An inconvenient truth for Gore

[Sage]

Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”

Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.

Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).

Wonder if the mainstream media will ever pick up on this.

 

[Casio]

Did he arrive at the Oscars in a Prius like DiCaprio?

 

[Philly]

Why do people have to live in such crazy houses? Honestly, you don't need more than four bedrooms and three bathrooms. A house to match that is just fine. I would expect Gore to live less like that.

While I belive that the key to reducing greenhouse emissions is to work with industry, families can do a lot to help the problem. If their motivator is not practising his preach, how are they supposed to follow?

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

He's a politician. By definition he has to be a hypocrite.

 

[Omnis]

Hollywood loves to jump on the bandwagon.

I could make a documentary about how a lack in sales of suspenders has made suspender makers live a life of extreme poverty and really high pants, and I'd get all the sympathy in the world from hollywood personalities like larry king and lindsay lohan.

 

[SS69]

Hollywood loves to jump on the bandwagon.

I could make a documentary about how a lack in sales of suspenders has made suspender makers live a life of extreme poverty and really high pants, and I'd get all the sympathy in the world from hollywood personalities like larry king and lindsay lohan.

I was thinking about making a documentary about the ban of lawn dart sales in 1988 and how it affected our economy by putting all the people in the lawn dart business out of work.

 

[Omnis]

Nobody cares if something has been banned or has become extinct. Hollywood only fawns over things in danger. Like suspenders.

 

[Kylehnat]

Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).

...which says nothing other than that his house is 12 times larger than a normal house. Not too shocking given that he's a millionaire and the former Vice President.

My parents' energy bill is far greater than mine, even though I am more of an energy hog. Absolute numbers don't say a whole lot.

 

[Solid Fro]

Hannitized.

 

[Pupik]

Have you people have no respect for the inventor of The Internet?

 

[Duke]

I've got no respect for Algor, that's for sure.

 

[T.Zamataki]

Perhaps he hasn't thought this through...

 

[Duke]

Perhaps he hasn't thought this through...

Why are you posting a T. Zamataki, and not yourself...?

 

[Swift]

So...if America is the main problem and Gore uses 5-10 times the amount of energy that the average American does...what does that make Mr. Gore?

 

[Kent]

Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year

This is all just a big misunderstanding.
You see, that house uses only as much energy as is necessary for Gore to continue development on his most famous invention- the internet.

If he was to reduce electric capacity the world's computer systems would all shut down at the exact same moment and in turn the Y2K scare would finally come to fruition.

 

[Appie]

So...if America is the main problem and Gore uses 5-10 times the amount of energy that the average American does...what does that make Mr. Gore?

The worlds savier?

 

[Solid Fro]

The worlds savier?

Yes.

 

[Famine]

This is all just a big misunderstanding.
You see, that house uses only as much energy as is necessary for Gore to continue development on his most famous invention- the internet.

If he was to reduce electric capacity the world's computer systems would all shut down at the exact same moment and in turn the Y2K scare would finally come to fruition.

Serial?

 

[Duke]

The worlds savier?

I'm assuming you mean saviour..?

And, assuming that, I'm further assuming you're joking...






...right?!

 

[Appie]

I'm assuming you mean saviour..?

And, assuming that, I'm further assuming you're joking...






...right?!

Sorry about that and yes i was joking

 

[Sage]

Dammit dammit DAMMIT. I just listened to the ABC News podcast, and they mentioned this piece, but they said that “Gore’s house uses double the amount of electricity that an average home uses”. Do they know how to read?! It quite clearly says:

[…] guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year.

That means 24 times the amount of electricity an average home uses, not two times.

Damn them. *Looks for a new daily news podcast…*

 

[Danoff]

Don't worry about it Sage, he probably offsets it by buying carbon sinks from some euro company that plants trees.

 

[throttlehappy]

rivoting movie....
i feel alseep during it

 

[Duke]

Dammit dammit DAMMIT. I just listened to the ABC News podcast, and they mentioned this piece, but they said that “Gore’s house uses double the amount of electricity that an average home uses”. Do they know how to read?! It quite clearly says:

That means 24 times the amount of electricity an average home uses, not two times.[/i]

Don't worry about it Sage, he probably offsets it by buying carbon sinks from some euro company that plants trees.

And don't forget, if it was a Republican they were talking about, they would have said his house uses 240 times as much electricity as the average American home, and then thrown in a comment about either A) Enron, or B) tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% of all Americans.

 

[ledhed]

Poor Al....the biggest loser in the world. The only guy who is such a huge loser ...even when he wins he loses .

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

...which says nothing other than that his house is 12 times larger than a normal house. Not too shocking given that he's a millionaire and the former Vice President.

My parents' energy bill is far greater than mine, even though I am more of an energy hog. Absolute numbers don't say a whole lot.

Well that's fine and all, but not in his case. It's one thing to be rich and have a big house that uses more energy, and fancy cars that guzzle gas. That's just indulging yourself because you can actually afford such things. No big deal to me.

But it's quite another thing to be rich and have a big, energy wasting house, with gas guzzling cars, while screaming that the world will melt/burn/evaporate/boil unless we use less energy. Either shut up and live your energy consuming ways, or actually take the effort to practice what you preach, and live less wastefully. Anything else is flat-out hypocritical, and erodes your moral high ground and credibility.

Dear Al Gore:
Put up or shut up.

 

[Tornado]

But it's quite another thing to be rich and have a big, energy wasting house, with gas guzzling cars, while screaming that the world will melt/burn/evaporate/boil unless we use less energy.

I was waiting for someone to post this before I posted, but that us wrong. Just because he doesn't practice what he preaches does not mean that what he preaches is a bad thing, unless you can find me a political figure of recent years who has practiced what they preached. I'm quite sure anyways that there were far more than 12 average families for every rich one anyways.

Either shut up and live your energy consuming ways, or actually take the effort to practice what you preach, and live less wastefully.

I read an article in Car and Driver a few years ago. I'll go hunt it out to quote it, but the basic gist of it was that it is irrelevant whether or not you follow what you say. If you believe it is right, that's fine. If you don't follow what you believe in, that is also fine. But that does NOT mean that what you believe to be right has no standing based purely on that. And this applies to anybody (I believe the editorial was about celebrities and Toyota Prius').

Anything else is flat-out hypocritical, and erodes your moral high ground and credibility.

Then crucify every politician. Ever.

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

I was waiting for someone to post this before I posted, but that us wrong. Just because he doesn't practice what he preaches does not mean that what he preaches is a bad thing, unless you can find me a political figure of recent years who has practiced what they preached. I'm quite sure anyways that there were far more than 12 average families for every rich one anyways.

When did I say that what he preaches is wrong? I just said that it is wrong to practice the opposite of what you preach. It's not the message that is wrong if you do so, but merely your ability to be taken "serially". If your own beliefs aren't even good enough for you, then what the hell is the point? I'm sorry, I just cannot comprehend the logic behind the apparent acceptance of hypocrisy today.

I read an article in Car and Driver a few years ago. I'll go hunt it out to quote it, but the basic gist of it was that it is irrelevant whether or not you follow what you say. If you believe it is right, that's fine. If you don't follow what you believe in, that is also fine. But that does NOT mean that what you believe to be right has no standing based purely on that. And this applies to anybody (I believe the editorial was about celebrities and Toyota Prius').

Why is it considered okay to be a hypocrite? If I am at a restaurant with another person, why should I listen to him tell me I should become vegan, for the sake of the animals, if he orders a rare steak himself? Al Gore is the same way. Oh believe me, I do think we should try to consume less and save more, and I try to do my part, but I'm not doing it because of Al Gore. He wasn't the first crusader of the environment, you know.

Then crucify every politician. Ever.

[cynical]Way ahead of you there [/cynical]


I mean, god forbid I do and say the opposite of something, my friends and peers would call me out in a New York minute and read me the riot act (and I know it's the same for most people). But if I have millions of dollars, suddenly it's:
"That's okay. He's just rich/a politician/a multi-million dollar car company. He's exempt."

The rich should have to follow the rules just like everyone else. It's the fact that they don't--scratch that--the fact that we LET THEM, that pisses me off.

 

[Duke]

I was waiting for someone to post this before I posted, but that us wrong. Just because he doesn't practice what he preaches does not mean that what he preaches is a bad thing...

So, you're probably too young to remember this first hand, but ever heard of Jim and Tammy Faye Baker? Jim was a big-time Jerry Falwell-style televangelist, and Tammy Faye was his wife. He got busted, not once but twice, cavorting with a prostitute. Of course, his preaching on the topic of sex was all of the usual "virgin until you're married, and then your marriage is a covenant with God" type stuff.

According to your logic above, this was perfectly acceptable behaviour for Mr. Baker, because as long as he spouts a good message, there's no need for him to actually live up to it.

[T]he basic gist of it was that it is irrelevant whether or not you follow what you say. If you believe it is right, that's fine. If you don't follow what you believe in, that is also fine. But that does NOT mean that what you believe to be right has no standing based purely on that.

Who here has said that the conservation movement has been invalidated? It hasn't been - it's AlGor that has just invalidated himself. Note that I consider the conservation movement (of which I am a proud member) to be something very separate from The Environmental Movement, of which I am patently not a member (not that this is particularly relevant).

Then crucify every politician. Ever.

That's a start.

 

[T.Zamataki]

Why are you posting a T. Zamataki, and not yourself...?

I lack credibility.

Anyhoo, this hypocrasy is almost unbelievable.
When environmentalists criticised Prince Charles for flying over to America to recieve an environmental award, I remember wondering what he could have done to please environmentalists. He couldn't very well drive now, could he?
A combined car/boat journey could potentially use up more energy, I think.

Get it together please, Mr. Gore. Act as high and mighty as you want, but expect faults to be picked out.