Tape of Al Gore Riding Luxury, Fuel-Guzzling Private Jet to Air This Weekend

What was the line by Glenn Reynolds? Something like:

"I'll start to worry about Global Warming when the people telling me to worry about Global Warming actually do something about Global Warming."

I probably mangled the quote, but I think it's close.

 

you assholes tried this shit already and got cum on your face.

you claimed that when he wrote the earth in balance he was a hypocrite because they had to kill thousands of trees for the paper to write his book. Well he used recycled paper you dumb crackers, ok it was found that they didn't really use recycled paper but the message was important enough that it's ok.

you claimed he had a huge mcmansion but the truth is that he had several aides working there. Ok fine, it was proved that people really didn't work there all that often but keep in mind that Al Gore gained weight so he needs a bigger home.

You claimed that live earth hurt the evironment more than the average person does in a year but the reality is that GEORGE BUSH, IRAQ, TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH, IRAQ, KARL ROVE, RUMSFELD, IRAQ. In your face.

Now you assholes talking about Gore's private jet? ******** you, the private jet is run by recycled oil from Hugo Chavez. So STFU you neocons make me so mad.

 

Why did you leave Cheney off of the list? Soft spot for him, because of his daughter maybe?

 

al Gore isn't a pompous fraud.

LULU, however IS a pompous fraud.

 

Crazy I know, but maybe, just maybe there's some sort of security risk with Gore flying commercial. After all he did hold some really important office in the 90's, but for the life of me I can't think of what it was...

 

Exactly, I knew there was a good reason for Gore to be a hypocrite. Al Gore doesn't have to practice what he preaches, he is Al Gore. Al Gore has very valid and legit reasons to crap on the environment.....do you?

 

FWIW, I actually agree with many of these criticisms. The protection of the environment is among the greatest concerns I have, and it alarms me how many so-called environmentalists want other people to make all of the sacrifices.

My wife and I are vegetarians who eat a largely (although no longer exclusively) vegan diet. We live in a high rise (MUCH better than even the most energy efficient single-unit homes). I walk to work, and she takes the train most days; when we move downtown, we'll both take the train/El. We recycle, although Chicago's recycling program is still in the stone age (it's improving). We have one car--a Honda Civic--and it's reasonably fuel effecient.

None of these things feel like sacrifices.

Interesting fact I read about a year ago: if New York City was a state, it would rank 17th in population but 51st in energy consumption.

 

Gore's plane doesn't bother me too much. After all, if he manages to convince enough people to change their lifestyles to a reasonable degree, then the pollution released by the plane will have been "paid off" by future conservation elsewhere. The energy waste as his own home, however, isn't the same; that's merely wasteful, with no greater benefit in the long run. I do understand that he responded to criticisms by installing solar panels, etc. Travolta has no excuse for his planes, but Travolta is stone-cold crazy anyway.

Some of the criticisms directed at Bush are legitimate. At the end of his term, Clinton used executive orders to increase the energy efficiency of several household appliances (e.g., air conditioners), and the costs to manufacturers would have been negligible. Bush revoked all of those standards. And nobody gets the sense that he's pushing for greater fuel efficiency in cars the way that, for example, Schwartenegger is.

One thing that we need to overcome is the sense that a person cannot live comfortably in a denser setting. Then again, when we pass through the suburbs, I don't think to myself, "Gee, it would be nice to have a great, big lawn like that." I think, "Christ, I'm glad I don't have to mow one of those god damn things every weekend."

 

Who said I crap on the environment?

As for Al Gore or whatever celebrities, I don't stalk their every move or steal documents from their power companies to make sure they've got the A/C set at 78 instead of 68. I'm simply pointing to the fact that its only fair that the former Vice President of the US has a private jet for security reasons.

 

Like Bush killed Kyoto?

I pay a guy that does that for me.

 

He must be illegal since Americans won't do that work.

 

Carmen was definitely born here. I don't know the details of the guys that actually do the work.

 

You do know that Bush lives greener than Algore and Clinton.

BTW. Mr Urbanite, how's the school system in downtown Chicago?

I kinda like my suburban town.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano,_Texas

In 2005, Plano was the best place to live in the Western United States by CNN Money magazine. In 2006, Plano was selected as the 11th best place to live in the United States by CNN Money magazine.[1] In addition to its many industries and good-quality living, Plano has excellent schools that consistently score in the top few percent of the nation.

 

Pretty good, actually. Like any major city, there are better districts and worse districts. The demographics of downtown are changing very rapidly, and the schools are changing with them. I'm too busy to hunt down the data, but the test scores for the neighborhood schools near our new condo shot up something like 40% in the past few years.

(Yes, I know that test scores are highly imperfect measures of school quality.)

The problem is that the bad schools are, eh, really, really bad. But the best schools in the suburbs aren't better than the best in the city.

 

Please. Congrats on your nice school system, but spare me the lilly-white homogeneous, mc-mansion, hummer-driving, sprawl.

Not necessarily.

 

oh no, I meant the republicans here as the "you". I agree with everything you say. I agree with BojenDyk too, us dykes have to stick together. If people hear his message and do what he says and not what he does then that is all that matters. He NEEDS a bigger house because he is fat. He should be able to waste a lot of oil in private jets because the Republicans are always trying to assassinate him. Yes Al Gore is horrible for the environment and he does absolutely none of the things he preaches but he has very legit reasons for making the earth a much worse place to live in....and the republicans don't have any excuses.

 

You mean these are bad things???

 

But it's the "lily-white homogenous" people of the suburbs that are prejudiced.