I don't know that your link proves that he's a hypocrite. If you read it, it says that they are upgrading the house to make it more weatherproof. Presumably with power tools. I haven't seen the movie or read anything he's written on the topic but it seems to me that reducing unnecessary usage doesn't necessarily mean that you have to do all your carpentry with wooden pegs...
Hell, I had an enormous heating bill last winter because my son broke the back door and we had a lot of trouble getting it fixed. I don't think this necessarily makes me a hypocrite :) you do what you can with what you've got and starting from where you are. And sometimes awareness is a start. To dismiss the whole green movement because Al Gore has a swimming pool strikes me as a bit of an over-simplification, to say the least. I dunno why the wild-eyed right insists on personal attacks. Well, actually... that's a thought. Could it be because it is easier to do this than to actually talk about issues? On 2/27/07, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In his movie he advocates that people should conserve electricity in their > homes to prevent global warming. Nuf said! > > And BTW, the story is accurate: > > http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=5072659 > > Kalee Kreider, a spokesperson for the Gores, did not dispute the Center's > figures, taken as they were from public records. But she pointed out that > both Al and Tipper Gore work out of their home and she argued that "the > bottom line is that every family has a different carbon footprint. And what > Vice President Gore has asked is for families to calculate that footprint > and take steps to reduce and offset it." > > So basically, he's a a big honcho who has every right to use 20x as much > electricity as everyone else, but us peons should hang our laundry instead > of using dryers. Not only is he a big fat hypocrite, he's an elitist, too. > But we knew that already. > > > > On 2/27/07, Dana wrote: > > > > has it? What does he advocate exactly? > > > > > -- > --------------- > Robert Munn > www.funkymojo.com > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:228994 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
