Gore Refuses to take Personal Energy Ethics Pledge

[Kuciwalker]

Agreed. My point stands.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Oerdin
In any event so what if the guy uses a lot of electricity since all of the electricity he uses is green meaning non-GHG creating.

Except it isn't.

This is just a red herring thrown about to make people like DinoDoc

I didn't make the thread.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
He's claiming Gore is a hypocrite. DUH. You are the only person in this thread who didn't immediately perceive this obvious fact.

Except Inhofe's "Personal Energy Ethics Pledge" goes to all energy. Gore isn't anti-energy. He's against excess energy use which causes greenhouse gases.

Gore pays extra for energy which does not.

It is Inhofe who is the hypocrite, not Gore.

[Odin]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


Not really. My energy consumption at home is well above average, since I work from home.

Then again, about 90% of my work portfolio right now is alternative energy/biomass, so if you include the results of my work activity, my overall impact on CO₂ emissions makes up for Gore's slack and a few thousand other people's as well.

MtG:

[Berzerker]

stop trying to cool the planet damnit

[Dinner]

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[Ogie Oglethorpe]

[Solly]

Gore = hypocritical liar

[Berzerker]

umm...Oerdin... the fact ice shelves crumble at the edges is not evidence of "global warming". When the prophets of doom and gloom cant even get the simple stuff right why should the rest of us care what y'all have to say?

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Stop ... it..... stop it....... the biting wit..... the clever satire..... Ohhh my aching sides.......

for teh love of God.........

[Dinner]

The increased rate of calving is though. As is the shrinkage of glaciers, and arctic pack ice.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

OHHH!!!!

I think..... I just herniated myself....

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Eli
What electricity consuming stuff does he need to do his job?

A computer with all the peripherals? Two? A TV set? A photocopying machine? A special study room or two, which require more heating and/or cooling?

You don't get to 20x normal consumption this way, not without heating your pool or something along those lines.

I think that the main source in his "household" is not anything in his house itself, but the cost of travel, especially air travel. He travels a lot more then most people, so air fuel and such.

[DinoDoc]

You saying he's to good to ride with the rest of us?

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Vesayen


I think that the main source in his "household" is not anything in his house itself, but the cost of travel, especially air travel. He travels a lot more then most people, so air fuel and such.

His air travel may be the bigger emitted but The stories I saw indicated his household electricity usage was 20 times the US average (or was it his local average)

THat in itself is not that damning as you need to consider how many people live there compared to the average as well as the source of heating and a multitude of factors. If he has electric heat and cooking and cooling, that very different than if he has gas heat or cooking etc etc. I imagine the average home has 2-4 people in it . .. If ha has 20 people living there with a high tech surveillance security system, higher power usage gets more understandable

You cannot look at one source of energy to assess a person's usage.


THat said -- 20 times the average looks very bad at first blush. I suspect that this is a very clumsy attempt to paint Gore as a hypocrite. This does not change the fact that he may well indeed be a hypocrite

WE had one in our neighborhood-- always going on and on about the environment-- but he's leaving our neighborhood-- why ? He's buying a bigger house ( 3500 sq feet for him , his wife and one child) in a neighborhood that will be about a 5 km longer commute for him and is NOT on any direct transit lines