A.C. KLEINHEIDER offers a very feeble defense of Al Gore's use of 20 times the amount of electricity that the average home must use.
Those on right are busy today comparing Al Gore's energy consumption to the average American. Well, Al Gore is not the average American. He comes from power and money and he has achieved power and money in his own right.
Al Gore lives a life different from most folks. I'm not one to defend elitism, not as a matter of practice, but some elitism is inevitable. There must be a leadership class. There always has been and there always will be. Even societies organized around the principle of the equality and preeminence of the proletariat have had an elite class. It is the natural order of things. The key for a society is to create a responsible, responsive and fluid elite.
Could Al Gore do more to be "Green" in his personal life? No doubt. I'm sure we all could. Regardless of your position on global warming, none of the steps greens suggest you take in your personal life are gonna hurt anything. It may be unnecessary but not detrimental.
He claims to drive a hybrid, which is certainly an improvement in some respects over a Hummer, but then a man of his wealth could do the environment better by driving the Tesla Roadster. Hell, he could buy two of them, and use one of them to smooth talk other local rich guys into buying them to help out the cause of buying an actual electric vehicle.
Now what I want to know is why he doesn't have his house powered entirely off of solar energy. I have yet to see anyone bring this up against him or for him, so I will be the first to say that it doesn't matter one bit how much power he's consuming if he's got a backyard full of solar panels sucking up ol' Sol's energy-producing goodness.
But I am not going to hold my breath on it anymore than I am going to hold out for him to come out and say that he's a hypocrite if he isn't doing any of that. Gore has come out asking us to make sacrifices, but what are his sacrifices? What has he done, except bloviate on the need of the average person to give up some portion of their lifestyle?
It is the natural order of things to have a ruling class. It's also the natural order of things for the ruling class to fancy itself not burdened by the rules it wants imposed on the rest of us.
Do as I say, not as I do...
This little piggy went wee, wee, wee all the way to the bank...
Al Gore sure is a smarmy bastard. Definitely of the "do as I say, not as I do" crowd.
I think we should give ol' Algore a break. After all, keeping his posimoronic brain properly charged & in optimal working order requires a lot of juice.
And look at the payback: He's keeping us informed about the Global Warming Gotterdammerung currently underway.
"Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure. On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility.
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves.
But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? - Squealer, Animal Farm
That should have all been in italics.
Sorry.
There, I fixed it for you. I know what you mean. Btw, I fixed that reference for you. It was a great book. One of the best political ones I've ever read.
Heh.
Thanks for fixing the ref!!
Duh.
So basically... Al can use more energy because he's what? Nobility?