Matt Drudge breaks the news that a group calling itself the Competitive Enterprise Institute has put together a video detailing filmmaker and erstwhile politician Al Gore's energy use in his quixotic campaign against hydrocarbon usage. The obvious but necessary-to-be-stressed outcome: the globe-trotting Gore is doing more than his share to emit carbon dioxide.
This reminds us of a comment that we recently posted on another blog. A certain Christian speaker whose politics fall far to the left of the center had blogged about his feelings of nausea while flying from the city where he works to the city where he lives after having heard the President speak on the republic's "addiction to oil," which nausea he attributed to his despair that the oilman Bush would do anything about the problem. This posting comes in a blog that detailed the many reasons why it was important for this individual to live in one city, oversee a ministry in another, and fly in between.
Our aphoristic rejoinder: Stop me, Mr. President, before I fly again.
P.S. We recommend the discussion of Gore's film from, of all things, NPR. Maybe journalistic bias can be overcome, at least somewhat.
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The word from Leno is the Bush refuses to see th film whereas Cheyney is going to go see it for the fifth time. "I cracks me up every time I see it," he said.
Take this for whatever it's worth:
WIRED magazine did a cover story on Gore about a month ago. (It's easy to locate on the shelf b/c Gore's face completely dominates the cover...) On the topic of his airplane usage Gore described how he preserves his integrity: he uses a eco-carbon calculator (web-based) that assigns a dollar value to the energy he uses. He includes all aspects of his life: car, dishwasher, airplane, everything. Whatever the resulting value is is what Gore donates out of his pocket to some 3rd world effort to develop alternative energy sources (eg an Indian solar power effort). As much as I don't like Gore, I have some respect for this self-imposed tax.
It could be argued however that his excessive carbon footprint is justifide since he will no doubt (hopefully) educate the masses producing a greater trickle down effect and overall reduction in carbon use.
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