Global Warming Hypocrisy

[ccrobinson]

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm

Al Gore has continued to call for reduced energy consumption. Perhaps he should start with his own home. Physician, heal thyself.

 

[donnA]

good grief thats some electricity bill. How can anyone take him seriously.

 

[snrsvdbygrc]

Isn't it the left always chastening the right for not practicing what they preach??

 

[Daisy]

As someone put it in another website:

The comparison hardly seems apt.

Firstly, it is necessary to compare with a house of equivalent size. The graph of energy consumption isn't a straight line as house size increases.

It is necessary to know how many people live/work there.

It is necessary to know what additional load is unusual to him, such as security systems, etc.

It is necessary to know whether people work there and on what basis - is it 24 x 7? Do they have separate cooking/washing facilities?

All these are necessary to perform a reasoned comparison of power consumption. Remember that 3 shifts of 4 security men represents an additional consumption of 12 people.

The comparison proves nothing about Gore and even less about global warming.

 

[donnA]

Prehaps if he were rally worried about energy and the enviroment he would do mor ein his personal life, like live in a smaller house, for that much electricity he lives in a house big enough for 4 or5 families.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

As someone put it in another website:

Well, it looks like the elite want to save the energy for themselves. Do as I say, not do.

 

[Daisy]

Prehaps if he were rally worried about energy and the enviroment he would do mor ein his personal life, like live in a smaller house, for that much electricity he lives in a house big enough for 4 or5 families.

How many families do work/live in that house?

He did green it up.

 

[donnA]

I don't know, does he live in an apartment building, and pays the electricity for the whole building?

 

[Terry_Herrington]

You people are going to criticize Gore no matter what he does, he's the enemy, you know a democrat.

 

[Terry_Herrington]

Well, it looks like the elite want to save the energy for themselves. Do as I say, not do.

You must have been listening to that right-wing god Rush Limbauge. This is exactly what he talked about during his second hour today.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

You must have been listening to that right-wing god Rush Limbauge. This is exactly what he talked about during his second hour today.

You don't need Limbaugh to see that Gore is a hypocrite.

 

[Terry_Herrington]

You don't need Limbaugh to see that Gore is a hypocrite.

I disagree that Gore is a hypocrite. And, even if he is, it doesn't mean his message is wrong.

 

[donnA]

Apparently even he doesn't beleive his message.

 

[2 Timothy2:1-4]

Apparently even he doesn't beleive his message.

Then that would mean he is currently in the mainstream of America.

 

[carpro]

As someone put it in another website:

"The comparison proves nothing about Gore..."

Except that like most liberals, he doesn't follow his own advice.:BangHead:

 

[777]

I disagree that Gore is a hypocrite. And, even if he is, it doesn't mean his message is wrong.

I disagree with your disageerance. This MSM article isn't even three months old:

For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)

Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm

And he responded by increasing his personal consumption. Either Gore himself doesn't believe in his "theories" or he expects everybody else to be like Paramount Classics and offset his carbons for him.

 

[donnA]

10,000 sq ft and 20 rooms,, yeah, must be several families living there,, sounds like he really identifies with my family alright.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

You ought to see his buddy John Edward's crib. He even clear-cut forest land to build it, and it's enormous.

http://carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=3848

You gotta love these long driveways these "men of the people" have. I guess he needs to keep that "other America" at bay, eh ?

They're BOTH hypocrites. It's just a plot to further a socialized transportation & housing grab.

 

[2 Timothy2:1-4]

I struggle to believe it is necessary to spell this out but when these folks make an attempt to further their agenda on high moral grounds but fail to live by thost moral grounds themselves, then they have no moral ground on which to stand, and should remain silent.

That does not determine the validity of their argument but it does bring into question just how much of what they say do they really believe. For if they really believed what they say with as much passion then they would live it. How can someone critcize the character of someone who drives big SUV's and supports logging but clear out anough forestry to build a 28000 sq ft home which is unnecessary and simply a luxery even by conservatives standards.

They have now lost any room to criticize others publically and openly. Actualy it does call into the question of the validity of the arguments because those who are making them do not appear to believe them also.

 

[Pete]

Just out of interest...have we lost any members from here to the amishboard?