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April 27, 2009
Two Must See Videos of Charlatan Al Gore
It Pays to Go Green! Al Gore's Net Worth Jumps From $2 Million in 2000 to $100 Million in 2008
h/t Pro Patria
According to public disclosure information, Gore was worth somewhere between $1 million and $2 million in 2000. So just what has Al Gore gained from his Big Green escapades? According to public disclosure information, Gore was worth somewhere between $1 million and $2 million in 2000. Not quite eight years later, Gore is estimated to be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million.
While I ordinarily would applaud such financial gains from such a short period of time, I can’t help but to question just how it happened. When you look out at what Al Gore has done, it’s evident that he figured out on a way to capitalize on the creation of Big Green while becoming the official doomsday prophet that has helped to build Big Green into the monetary powerhouse that it has become.
In any other industry this would be considered a severe conflict of interest. In essence, Al Gore has helped to create a fictitious catastrophe, then told everybody what the solutions have to be, and then put himself in a position to capitalize on the hype. It’s not only seriously dishonest, but many people and industries are going to suffer in the wake of this hype while Gore and Big Green bring in millions (and in some cases, billions) of dollars in green money.
Big Green has long since evolved past any resemblance of environmentalism and has become nothing more than a multi-billion dollar money-making machine. It’s time to start asking just who (or what) benefits from the pop-culture green movement because it certainly isn’t the environment.
Hearings began last Tuesday afternoon in the Energy and Commerce Committee on the “American Clean Energy and Security Act,” otherwise known as the “Cap and Trade” legislation.
Congressman Scalise questioned former Vice President Al Gore about a "cap and trade" energy tax in the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday, April 24, 2009.
Congressman Scalise is awesome, he does not let Gore run over him, and he speak up. Excellent! that video really kicks into gear about halfway through.
"When you’re talking legislation that essentially amounts to a declaration of economic war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill. The American people are entitled to know how much that is going to cost them and future generations,” Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana.
Obama, as a candidate for the office, told the San Francisco Chronicle that his cap and trade tax plan would necessarily cause electric bills to skyrocket.
Rep. Mike Pence showed the video in which Obama told interviewers in the January, 2008 video, “Under my plan, the cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad because I’m capping greenhouse gasses coal power plants, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to, uh, retrofit their operations. That will cost money; they will pass that money on to consumers.”
Pence reaction to the video, “We don’t believe that a draconian national energy tax dropped on top of a coal-burning industry principally that -- according to the President of the United States last year -- will cause utility rates to ‘skyrocket’ is the right approach. … Since we arrived on Capitol Hill we’ve heard a lot of good things about working together and what we have seen is the opposite. What we have seen is closed rules, limited amendments, last minute introduction; we’ve seen massive, hundreds of billions of dollars of legislation that’s been brought to the floor -- twelve hours to review it, twenty-four hours to review it. Our concern would be that the American people are entitled to count the cost of this cap and trade legislation and not wait until the day before the bill comes out of committee and goes to the floor and passes to be told what it will cost.”
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) as a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee said, about the devastating affect this sort of carbon tax has had on countries in the European Union and the impact this would have on American jobs.
“When you look at what has happened in Europe and they have basically given up their manufacturing and their production base,” Blackburn said. “When you go there you don’t see a lot that’s being done with cement, with ores, with metals, with steel. That is a void in their economy. You go to places like Denmark and they talk about wanting to move toward having everybody buy their own individual carbon credits that they use every year and that is taxing the very air you breathe.”
The MIT study that produced the average annual cost to consumers of $3,128 per household in increased energy cost alone also produced staggering numbers of job losses from this carbon tax scheme.
“The increased cost was not only in the tax that would be paid but also in the loss of jobs: 3 to 6 million American jobs through the same study,” Blackburn said. “The Democrats tout that this would create 2 million clean energy or green jobs, but our concern is that it would be a net jobs loss for the economy on top of the increased tax per household. We’re all for clean air, we’re all for clean water, we are all for clean energy. We are for conservation and taking good care of this planet that we live on, but we are not for taxing people out of house and home in order to pay for some of these programs that they are wanting to bring forward.”
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Wild Thing's comment........
Gore will perpetrate any lie or delusion in order get more green into his wallet.
Neither Al Gore nor John Warner addressed a single question put forth to them. All I heard was blabbering nonsense from both of them. Congressman Scalise was fantasst and had both Gore and Warner squirm in their seats.
Cap & Tax is designed to destroy our economy, leading to further consolidation of power at the White House, trashing the Constitution, and full conversion to socialism.
One thing also I want to keep in mind are these that stand up to the Democrats. They may be few in numbers but once we vote out the rino's like John McCain and try to get more like the ones mentioned in this post we will have a chance to save our awesome country.
Posted by Wild Thing at April 27, 2009 05:48 AM
Comments
Every penny he's made was put into non-profit? What he's saying is all his money has been a tax write off.
Gore is getting rich by scaring the public and he's proud of it.
Posted by: BobF at April 27, 2009 09:51 AM
You said, "vote out the RINOs like John McCain." I hope I live to see that. Although I voted for him for President, I didn't put him in the Senate. Someone must run against him because he won't quit 'till he dies. Vote him out!
Posted by: horace at April 27, 2009 10:27 AM
This whole bogus Green crap, is another way for the democrats to grab a little more power and control over our lives. As if they don't have enough already.
Gore is greedy, he is also stupid. The democrats refused to let anyone debate Gore for fear they would embarrass him in front of the House.
Lord Monckton(sp) former Science advisor to Margaret Thatcher, wanted to debate Gore during his testamony in the House but the democrats refused.
Why are they so afraid of debate they have a lock on this Climate Change scam, and the American People are once again going to have to pony up to pay for it. So why not debate. Because they and havn't a clue of what they are talking about and to face off with a Real Honest To God Scientist scares the hell out of them.
The worst that can happen is it may save the American People Billions of dollars that will be wasted on useless Green Technology.
Posted by: Mark at April 27, 2009 11:50 AM
Exactly Mark. They're afraid to let somebody who really knows what's going debate Gore.
You know what else irks on this video? The arrogance and smugness of Gore.
Posted by: BobF at April 27, 2009 12:13 PM
Gore is an ass. He is a profiteer using the warped political machinery of Washington DC to make a personal fortune at the expense of all of America. Individuals and business will suffer if this Cap and Trade scam becomes law. Damn Gore!
Both Blackburn and Scalise did a fine job of grilling Warner and Gore. These two Republican Congresspeople give me some hope that there is a core of conservative politicians we may be able to add to in 2010.
Posted by: TomR at April 27, 2009 01:53 PM
BobF., your right, he has even had speaking
engagements at gradeschools, young children
and made them afraid. I would be furious if
I was the parent of one of the kids he
spoke to .
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 27, 2009 06:28 PM
Horace, I hope I do too. It really could
happen in the next election if people would
wake up and if they could get a real
conservative to even run for office to
replace the many rino's.
Nothing is impossible but it only feels
like it sometimes.
McCain's daughter Meghan is so horrible
she is writing article after article of
hate and bashing conservatives telling
them to get out of the RNC. My prayer is
she will keep at it and people will see
what a enemy she and her dad are for our
country.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 27, 2009 06:32 PM
Mark, yessss,that was grerat! His being afraid to
debate speaks volumes.
Heck I would love to debate on things I believe in,
like our country, our troops, Veterans, Fair Tax,
working out, etc.
And Gore says he believes in Global warming
so why not debate it. He is a afraid LOL it
would be even funnier if it was not going to cost
all of us financially.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 27, 2009 07:06 PM
Tom, me too!!
"These two Republican Congresspeople give me
some hope that there is a core of conservative
politicians we may be able to add to in 2010."
I agree Tom and we need some hope and some
names like these and some others to keep watching. What I do right now since so far
they are all in other States then I am in, if
I use one of their YouTube vidoes I send them
a message of how proud of them so many of us
are and to keep up the good work that they
are being noticed and thanked.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 27, 2009 07:15 PM
