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Says Situation Is Dire, But Not Irreversible If Americans Start Rigorous Green Plan Now
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- If the Democrats really wanted oil companies to find more oil, they''d allow oil companies to drill offshore and to drill in ANWR, which we happen to know is bursting with oil.
But they don''t. They don''t want drilling. They don''t want more oil. They want humans to ride bicycles and then to die. We deserve it: We were mean to the polar bears. - Reply to this comment
- Al Gore left his fleet of gas guzzling moster vehicles idling outside while he preached to the nation about conserving. Bad Al Gore you might say, but I''''m beginning to think he actually has it right. Given this, in concert with his 28,000 sq. ft. home with a carbon footprint the size of 100 average American homes gobbling fossil fuel.
Posted by JonGood65 at 12:09 PM : Jul 18, 2008
You can''t attack his ideas so you attack him. Typical Republican tactic. You know, we don''t have to accept or reject his pattern of personal energy consumption (putting aside questions about your details and characterization of it) but we do have to make a decision about climate change and dependence on oil, foreign and domestic. Nothing you or anyone on this board is saying contradicts the main ideas he touts--a shift to renewables being good for the economy, environment, and national security. - Reply to this comment
- Al Gore left his fleet of gas guzzling moster vehicles idling outside while he preached to the nation about conserving. Bad Al Gore you might say, but I''''m beginning to think he actually has it right. Given this, in concert with his 28,000 sq. ft. home with a carbon footprint the size of 100 average American homes gobbling fossil fuel.
Posted by JonGood65 at 12:09 PM : Jul 18, 2008
You can''t attack his ideas so you attack him. Typical Republican tactic. You know, we don''t have to accept or reject his pattern of personal energy consumption (putting aside questions about your details and characterization of it) but we do have to make a decision about climate change and dependence on oil, foreign and domestic. Nothing you or anyone on this board is saying contradicts the main ideas he touts--a shift to renewables being good for the economy, environment, and national security. - Reply to this comment
- Al Gore left his fleet of gas guzzling moster vehicles idling outside while he preached to the nation about conserving. Bad Al Gore you might say, but I''''m beginning to think he actually has it right. Given this, in concert with his 28,000 sq. ft. home with a carbon footprint the size of 100 average American homes gobbling fossil fuel.
Posted by JonGood65 at 12:09 PM : Jul 18, 2008
You can''t attack his ideas so you attack him. Typical Republican tactic. You know, we don''t have to accept or reject his pattern of personal energy consumption (putting aside questions about your details and characterization of it) but we do have to make a decision about climate change and dependence on oil, foreign and domestic. Nothing you or anyone on this board is saying contradicts the main ideas he touts--a shift to renewables being good for the economy, environment, and national security. - Reply to this comment
- I keep hearing about Sen. NoWayBama only increasing taxes on the rich??
Yet, just last evening I hear a man breaking it down.
Sen. NOwayBama''s plan declares a family of four earning $50,000 will in fact receive an extra $1000 tax credit they are not receiving today.
Sound good?? Perhaps, until you take a bit closer look. Remember, Sen. NOwayBama has already declared he will allow the current $2500 tax cut this family is receiving from the G.W. Bush tax cuts expire.
which will result in this family actually receiving a tax increase of $1,500 above what they are paying today.
Now add this $113 a month tax increase to what you are paying at the pump thanks to Sen. NOwayBama and his version of, "Just Say NO" and see how much you really love the "CHANGE" he is promising you now???
What a guy....And all the time he''s grinning like a possum eating ka,ka all the way to the bank with the cash he''s getting from the greenie weenie industry for just saying NO, NO, NO, NO.
Folks, this is by no means a black white thing...This is a pure American versus un-American thing we have here. - Reply to this comment
- Writing books and going around TALKING about this KRAP does NOT help the planet! It only makes millions for Mr. Gore!
When Mr. Gore takes his fancy TALK and his fancy MONEY and starts up a company that produces a hydrogen fueled car, and a hydrogen producing energy plant...then he MIGHT have some credibility!
Again, Mr. Gore...I know how to hire people...when should I have them there to start, and where do they need to be, and who''s going to pay them...SOMEBODY....ANYBODY have a CLUE???? - Reply to this comment
- We are now watching the Democrats developing the next .COM faux economic bubble just as we watched the Bill Clinton regime develop in the ''90''s.
This faux GreenieWeenie economy will swell making politicians rich behond imagine, until folks wake up and pop it just as they did in 2000 with the .COM bubble.
And, the bubble following this one will likely be some faux economy designed to reverse all the damage the greenie weenie industry inflicted on America.
And, all the while the nation hating Democrat libtards will still be pointing the finger at the GOP and the vicious cycle will continue. - Reply to this comment
- Al Gore left his fleet of gas guzzling moster vehicles idling outside while he preached to the nation about conserving. Bad Al Gore you might say, but I''m beginning to think he actually has it right. Given this, in concert with his 28,000 sq. ft. home with a carbon footprint the size of 100 average American homes gobbling fossil fuel.
The best way to force us to convert to renewable energy is to suck every last drop of fossil fuel out of the earth. When there is no more, then folks will begin listening to all you "Chicken Little" libtards chortling all this doom and gloom.
Until then, just remember....Follow the money.
In this case Al Gore, Sen. NObama, and untold hundreds of these greenie weenie promoters are making millions from these bio-fuel producers and the greenie weenie industry in general. - Reply to this comment
- It always amazes me that those who drive around in their large SUVs find Al Gore''''s view of the future unpalatable. The facts are simple. Fossil fuels are limited! Irrespective of one''''s views on global warming,the need to develop sustainable energy for the future is evident. Wake Up Call!
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Posted by MiciB at 07:58 AM : Jul 18, 2008
OK, I''M CONVINCED...LET''S GET IT ON...WHEN DO I HAVE SOME PEOPLE THERE TO START IT??? WHERE IS IT? GETERDONE! - Reply to this comment
- Where we gonna build it? What''''''''s it called? What day should I have some people there to start on it? Where do we start?
(snort)
(Talk''''''''s simply hot air...and it''''''''s cheap!)
Posted by RowdyWicca at 09:22 AM : Jul 18, 2008
You are correct, you are full of cheap hot air and ignornace.
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Posted by tru_america1 at 09:30 AM : Jul 18, 2008
Unfortunately, so is Mr. Al Gore!...sigh - Reply to this comment
- So is Gore registered as a reliable source of wind power...he''d be more reliable than acutal wind, which comes in at a whopping %20!!!! When I see Gore tooling around on a scooter and driving a hybrid and doing all his ''conferences'' by phone in order to save fuel he sucks down in his private jet...then I MIGHT reconsider his motives in all of this. Until then...he''s a gas bag.
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- None of this move to new technologies is going to do much if we as a nation keep with the attitude of "not in my back yard" when it comes time to act. We as a nation have seen this within the last decade when it was said we need more prisons to ease overcrowding, everybody agreed but when it was time to build you couldn''t find the land as communities opposed. Now, people are fine accepting such things as wind farms but you have people such as Sen. Kennedy saying "not in my back yard" but wasn''t he for this change? Unless we as a nation are ready to make such sacrifices for the betterment of all this issue, like many others, will fall flat on its face.
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- "Hate Gore all you want, but the entry of T Boone Pickens into the renewable field is a death knell to all you Global Warming deniers out there."
Posted by ubrew12
Businessman like T. Boone Pickens just don''t make such maneuvers out of the kindness of their hearts or concern for 100 years from now (he''s pushing well into 60 so he''s not long for this world) they do this because they smell an easy profit, huge government handouts (ala oil companies), and sheep that''ll push their agenda. Much like the pay as you go carbon credits, they do very little to offset foot prints but sure turn a nice profit for those who''re running them. We''ve been doing that "pay as you pollute" via EPA with large industries for well over a decade in heavily polluted areas yet they''re still polluted. (Certain industries would have to pay an "extra fee" to emit more emissions into the air during "prime time" (before 5pm) but the fee never matched the potential damage created by added emissions) - Reply to this comment
- Al Gore''s speech was an excellent clarion call to arms on the need to take bold action on an array of problems surrounding energy, climate change, and ecologically sustainable global economic growth. That having been said, I think that it was a tactical mistake for him to omit mentioning any form of carbon-free nuclear power as an integral component of a whole portfolio of different energy technologies that must be utilized to help solve these problems. In particular, there is a new type of nuclear energy technology that truly has the promise of being clean, green, and potentially low-cost. Unlike fission and fusion, which are based on what physicists call the "strong interaction," this new, little-mentioned technology is based on the "weak interaction." It is called Low Energy Nuclear Reactions or LENRs. It has radical advantages (no dangerous radiation and no radioactive waste) over nuclear fission and "hot" fusion technologies. However, this is a very disruptive technology in that it potentially threatens many vested interest groups in multiple industries all over the world, such as battery and fuel cell manufacturers in the near-term and in the long term, the oil industry. Just hit the Google and Yahoo search engines if you wish to learn more --- Lewis Larsen, Lattice Energy LLC.
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- OK, AL, bring it on, you''ve been talking this ***** for ten years now...bring it on...where is it...get it done!
Where we gonna build it? What''s it called? What day should I have some people there to start on it? Where do we start?
(snort)
(Talk''s simply hot air...and it''s cheap!) - Reply to this comment
- I have watched with great interest Couric''s interview with Al Gore I think Gore could be talked into being Obams''s VP if he was fully empowered in implementing the energy program he promotes. If Obama has the vision and strength to acrually bring about the change he talks abuot, they could make an effective and formidable running team capturing the imagination and need of the American people.
Nathan Jacobi
Now in Israel - Reply to this comment
- It always amazes me that those who drive around in their large SUVs find Al Gore''s view of the future unpalatable. The facts are simple. Fossil fuels are limited! Irrespective of one''s views on global warming,the need to develop sustainable energy for the future is evident. Wake Up Call!
- Reply to this comment
- It always amazes me that those who drive around in their large SUVs find Al Gore''s view of the future unpalatable. The facts are simple. Fossil fuels are limited! Irrespective of one''s views on global warming,the need to develop sustainable energy for the future is evident. Wake Up Call!
- Reply to this comment
- It always amazes me that those who drive around in their large SUVs find Al Gore''s view of the future unpalatable. The facts are simple. Fossil fuels are limited! Irrespective of one''s views on global warming,the need to develop sustainable energy for the future is evident. Wake Up Call!
- Reply to this comment
- It always amazes me that those who drive around in their large SUVs find Al Gore''s view of the future unpalatable. The facts are simple. Fossil fuels are limited! Irrespective of one''s views on global warming,the need to develop sustainable energy for the future is evident. Wake Up Call!
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