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February 26, 2007Inconvenient Truth: Bush greener than Gore - UPDATED:::Please scroll down for Update::: Kim at Wizbang is looking at this information from the Tennessee Center for Research Policy, and she’s wondering at how much glory, laud and honor come Al Gore’s way while George W. Bush’s Crawford Ranch is a model of noble and all-holy green-ness, that gets ignored. Writes Kim: Keep in mind that this piece by Rob Sullivan was first published in the Chicago Tribune in 2001, so the fact that President Bush’s home was ecology friendly was not unknown in the media. They just chose to ignore it while they heaped praise on Gore. The press and the left also ignore the moves Bush has tried to make to keep underbrush cleared to prevent wildfires. My FDNY friends say it’s wise policy. If the information on Gore’s usage is true, I take a page from others who say Gore can use all the energy he can afford to pay for. If it’s not, we’ll soon know (See Gore’s response in the Update). But my concern isn’t how much the fella uses; I don’t buy into the whole “sky is falling” narrative, so I don’t care…what I am more interested in is the enduring double-standard of the press and the left. I think it’s an amusing double-standard. Gore gasses away about the environment while he and his friends use private jets to go from huge, air-conditioned home to home, and he is heaped with accolades and good press, while Bush says little about the environment but lives the green-creed in Midland and gets only negative press. On every issue. So, while you hear nothing at all about President Bush successfully gaining international co-operation for a green initiative that does not destroy economies like the Kyoto treaty, and you read nothing about how the president is committed to helping the restoration of ancient Iraqi Marshlands, you hear rather too much about all the preening and moralizing going on by Green Al Gore…except when he cancels interviews that might make him address…inconvenient dissent. At the Oscars last night, someone said that Al Gore has been dedicated to “this issue for 30 years…” but when he was veep, President Clinton did not even submit the Kyoto treaty to congress for ratification, and the congress sumarily rejected it in a resolution, 95-0. Somehow that inconvnient truth keeps getting missed or re-written Also, Al Gore said last night that “this issue is not a political issue, it’s a moral issue” (albeit a flawed one) but if that were true, you’d think he and his co-religionists would be generous and gracious about recognising President Bush’s personal and political efforts in this area. Instead, they bury it. The left buries it, the press buries it, the “concerned, green” pols who say global warming is “the greatest threat to the world,” bury it. And that, to me, proves that there is nothing moral about this whole global warming sham, and everything political about it. When you have a genuine emergency of any sort, you welcome all available hands and quibble about who gets the credit, later. When you have a political agenda, you do…something else. I can’t say it enough: if the big boys of Global Warming aren’t really taking the issue seriously…if they find it so unserious as to allow the issue to be used as a political wedge or a rabble-rousing sound-bite, and that’s all…well, then I don’t have to take it seriously, either. Meanwhile, Ed Morrissey waxes biblical, suggesting that Gore take the beam out of his own eye before he scolds us for our splinters, here: There’s nothing wrong with Gore using that kind of energy if he’s willing to pay for it. [...]Besides, as we saw at the Oscars last night, Gore wants the rest of us to downsize and conserve rather than just treat energy like any other market — and Gore is obviously not doing that for himself.[...]The point that the global-warming alarmists make is that we have to stop releasing carbons in order to reverse the “crisis”, as they called it over and over again, not to create a rations market that acts like a parasite to the energy market. If the situation is as dire as Gore painted it in An Inconvenient Truth and at the Oscars last night, then one might expect a little more self-discipline from the chief alarmist disciple. Vanderleun says: Once you learn to fake sincerity, the rest is easy. Crittenden is also covering and Don Surber reminds us that Gore also has a zinc mine and an oil well on his property. I have nothing against mines. Just stop the damn lecturing, already. UPDATE: Vice President Gore’s people have made a response. 1) Gore’s family has taken numerous steps to reduce the carbon footprint of their private residence, including signing up for 100 percent green power through Green Power Switch, installing solar panels, and using compact fluorescent bulbs and other energy saving technology. 2) Gore has had a consistent position of purchasing carbon offsets to offset the family’s carbon footprint — a concept the right-wing fails to understand. Gore’s office explains: What Mr. Gore has asked is that every family calculate their carbon footprint and try to reduce it as much as possible. Once they have done so, he then advocates that they purchase offsets, as the Gore’s do, to bring their footprint down to zero. There, you stupid right-wingers - Gore has bought his indulgences, so his soul is green and pristine and he will still go to ecology heaven. Whew. Thank goodness! Now the rest of you, just buy your indulgences and you can pollute all you want - it all evens out! Can’t you figure that out, yet? And that means, btw, that really is no emergency, after all. But there are good things you can and probably should do. And if you don’t start doing them soon…you’ll be made to. Ed’s update is better than mine. Go read it. Btw, just as an aside, I don’t think we’re supposed to assume (as CBS News and the left did, back when the Bush WH did not specifically address the faked TANG documents) that since Gore isn’t specifically disputing the findings of the Tennessee group, that means he admits to them…and I happen to agree with that. Just because Gore is not disputing the story doesn’t mean he admits it; his job is not to prove a negative. Nor was Bush’s, but that too is another enduring double standard. Kim’s update says Gores is using up a lot of alternative energy, too, instead of actually cutting back. Also writing: Related: http://theanchoressonline.com/2007/02/26/inconvenient-truth-bush-greener-than-gore/trackback/ 30 Responses to “Inconvenient Truth: Bush greener than Gore - UPDATED” |
February 26th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Al Gore’s Own Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore’s mansion uses more than twice the electricity in one month than the average household does in an entire year. From the Tennessee Center for Policy Research: Last night,…
February 26th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
The Mote And The Beam Of Global Warming (Updated: Gore Responds)
After last night’s Oscar win, Al Gore has ridden a wave of good press about his efforts to end global warming. Having Leonardo DiCaprio try to push Gore into a Presidential run in front of a billion people worldwide has…
February 27th, 2007 at 12:06 am
[...] And basically, it doesn’t address the issue of hypocrisy. If Gore and his family continue to increase their consumption of commercial energy with all of the resources they have at hand, then they have no business lecturing the rest of us on conservation and down-scaling our own use. (via The Anchoress) [...]
February 27th, 2007 at 1:13 am
Gore’s Hypocrisy
Boy is the left pissed off about this:
Goreâ??s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an e…
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February 27th, 2007 at 1:24 am
[...] PoliPundit Outside the Beltway Blue Crab Boulevard Captain’s Quarters Flopping Aces Hot Air The Anchoress Right Voices Bob Krumm (who points out an interesting [...]
February 27th, 2007 at 1:27 am
[...] Brutally Honest The Political Pit Bull NewsBusters Jules Crittenden Don Surber Blue Crab Boulevard Ace of Spades Stop the ACLU Hot Air Instapundit Roger L. Simon The Anchoress [...]
February 27th, 2007 at 3:53 am
Al Gore’s Mansion Uses As Much Electricity In A Month As An Average House Does In A Year
Let me be clear up front, I could care less about Al Gore and his politics. This isn’t an attack because he is a leftie, it is an attack on his hypocrisy. The ultimate in hypocrisy. Al Gore has been…
February 27th, 2007 at 8:00 am
One thing that always bothers me about the global warming alarmists is that they view a warming climate as only a bad thing. If you look at earlier warming periods (prior to industrialization by the way) you see that the heights of health and culture for mankind are during the warm periods, and the lows (fall of the roman empire, the dark ages, etc) are during the cold periods.
February 27th, 2007 at 8:22 am
a REALLY inconvenient truth!
The Boreacle uses more electricity in one month than the average American family uses in a YEAR?
Ha ha!
Update: The Boreacle Responds. I say, so what? One would think that having a low gross “carbon footprint” would be more important to an envi…
February 27th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Al Gore: un Oscar per l’ipocrisia
Clamorosa scoperta del Tennessee Center for Policy Research. Secondo il Nashville Electric Service, la casa di Al Gore - situata appunto nei pressi di Nashville, in Tennessee - consuma più elettricità in un mese di quanto una famiglia americana media…
February 27th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Gore ‘responds’ to Drudge headline (UPDATED)
Fresh off his Academy Award win on Sunday night, presidential wannabe Al Gore must be feeling pretty invincible as he took it upon himself to respond to, as the very liberal Think Progress describes it, Drudge’s “latest hysterics” on …
February 27th, 2007 at 9:54 am
[...] According to a 2001 column in the Chicago Tribune, President George Bush’s ranch in Texas is pretty darned environmentally-friendly. From the description of the technology used inside the ranch, it’s probably fair to say that [...]
February 27th, 2007 at 10:05 am
[...] Anchoress BLASTS the two-faced perfidy of the Gorist/Chicken Little lobby February 27, 2007 Posted by demolition65 in Cultural Pessimism, Global Warming, Idiots. trackback My my. Say no more other than GO AND READ IT RIGHT NOW!!!! [...]
February 27th, 2007 at 10:07 am
[...] been generated in the first place. Zheesh. UPDATE 2A: Captain Ed agrees with my second point (via Anchoress) — “If Gore and his family continue to increase their consumption of commercial energy [...]
February 27th, 2007 at 10:27 am
It’s Not That Easy Being Green:
Think Progress rises to Al Gore’s defense against what it calls “a series of desperate attacks by Drudge to paint Gore as a hypocrite.” LATER: Captain’s Quarters and Riehl World View don’t buy Gore’s defense; Instapundit writes: “if things are…
February 27th, 2007 at 10:45 am
[...] weighing in: Sensible Mom, BlackSun (lefty), The Anchoress, Blue Crab Boulevard, Iowa Voice, Conservative Times, A Second Hand Conhecture, and Diggers [...]
February 27th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Goracle gets busted
$80,000. For installation & labor & parts. Average savings? $815 a year, plus an extra $1000 in tax savings. So, the investment will pay off in… 40 years. All the while, he’s still using grid power, just 90% of what his behemoth estate would if he …
February 27th, 2007 at 11:57 am
The power of the Goracle (updated!)
While Al Gore is running around telling everyone there’s a scientific consensus on global warming (there isn’t) and how we need to take steps now to reduce the emission of pollutants, the Nashville Electric Service tells us that the monthly
February 27th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Energy Gobbler Gore Responds
He claims that he signed “up for 100 percent green power through Green Power Switch, installing solar panels…” and yet his energy consumption went up!
February 27th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Brilliant, as usual.
I wish I had seen this earlier. Just today I wrote on how many leftists believe that values can be ‘bought,’ via a redistribution of wealth.
Damn, you’re good.
February 27th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Global Warming Hysterics Today: Al Gore’s House
Lots of people have posted about John Edwards very large house he is building in Orange County, NC, which is not environmentally friendly. Well, what about Al Gore's house? (h/t Hot Air)
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An In…
February 27th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Teh Goracle of the Global Warming Religion
AlGore is the number one fingure in the New Church of Global Warming. He said Global Warming was not a political issue, but a moral issue. BS. It is totally political. It is all about killing the American businesses into
February 27th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Saving the World With Accounting Tricks
I am consistent amazed at how willing the left is to defend the indefensible, usually in the most rhetorically over-the-top means possible. As reported yesterday, here and elsewhere, Al Gore’s energy consumption habits stand in stark contrast to his m…
February 27th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Who is the real Al Gore: Statesman or Politician; Environmentalist or Hypocritical Fraud?
So what is he? A hypocrite? Yes in the sense that he demands we do what he is unwilling to do himself: Actually conserve, not just buy his conservation in a greenhouse shell game…
February 27th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
I blogged this topic earlier, referencing AmericanDigest.com’s comparison of the Bush and Gore ranch vs. mansion …. Mirror, Mirror on the wall — who is greenest of them all?
George and Laura. (Green) thumbs up!!
March 1st, 2007 at 2:29 am
Thursday Morning Links
Why John McCain’s campaign is going down the tubes. Ace.Department of Geeky chairs. Marg. Revolution"It’s exceedingly hard to run a business." SippicanSissy takes the David Brooks piece a bit further. SISUPowerline reminisces about the glob…
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:33 pm
[...] (Ken Shepherd | 2/27/2007, 09:12 EST): The Anchoress has a good critique at her site, where she notes that President Bush’s Crawford ranch is and [...]
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:02 pm
[...] us all to take mass transit. If it was that “urgent” they’d be telling you to build your house along the lines of George W. Bush’s house in Crawford, Texas, rather than along the lines [...]
April 4th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
A Far Too Convenient $mear: Part One…
(Note - visit this follow-up post for a link to Tennessee Center for Policy Research tax forms.) Did you honestly think that the Right Wing $mear machine was going to let Al Gore stand up with the terrific team who……
April 20th, 2007 at 8:30 am
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