Gore is off his rocker; THIS is Obama’s Energy Policy Advisor? July 22, 2008
Hello five West Virginia electors voting for John McCain.
Good-bye Obama’s chances in West Virginia.
You know West Virginia Democrats have to cringe everytime they see Al Gore pop up on the radar screen.
If you remember in an early post here, Obama has already made a commitment to hire Al Gore as his energy policy advisor as reported via the AP on AOL News.
What does Al want to do? Eliminate the use of coal in 10 years.
Can you say McCain by 25 in WV?
See the AOL News article below…
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Gore Sets Bold Energy Goal for US
By RON FOURNIER
WASHINGTON (July 17) - Just as John F. Kennedy set his sights on the moon, Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace.
The Nobel Prize-winning former vice president said fellow Democrat Barack Obama and Republican rival John McCain are “way ahead” of most politicians in the fight against global climate change.
Rising fuel costs, climate change and the national security threats posed by U.S. dependence on foreign oil are conspiring to create “a new political environment” that Gore said will sustain bold and expensive steps to wean the nation off fossil fuels.
“I have never seen an opportunity for the country like the one that’s emerging now,” Gore told The Associated Press in an interview previewing a speech on global warming he planned to give Thursday in Washington.
In his speech, Gore said some of the nation’s biggest success stories have come from making commitments to goals well beyond the next election, citing the Marshall plan for rebuilding Europe, Social Security and the interstate highway system, in addition to putting a man on the moon.
“A political promise to do something 40 years from now is universally ignored because everyone knows that’s meaningless,” he said. “Ten years is about the maximum time that we as a nation can hold a steady aim and hit the target.”
He said it also coincides with experts’ predictions that unless dramatic changes to reduce global warming pollution are made within the next decade, “our ability to ever recover from this environmental crisis” may be lost.
Gore said the single most important policy change would be placing a carbon tax on burning oil and coal.
The Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan group he leads, estimates the cost of transforming the U.S. to clean electricity sources at $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion over 30 years in public and private money. But he says it would cost about as much to build greenhouse gas-polluting coal plants to satisfy current demand.
“This is an investment that will pay itself back many times over,” Gore said. “It’s an expensive investment but not compared to the rising cost of continuing to invest in fossil fuels.”
Called an alarmist by conservatives, Gore has made global warming his signature issue. He portrayed Thursday’s speech as the latest and most important phase in his effort to build public opinion in favor of alternative fuels.
Gore knows politicians fear action unless voters are willing to sacrifice _ and demand new fuels.
“I hope to contribute to a new political environment in this country that will allow the next president to do what I think the next president is going to think is the right thing to do,” Gore said. “But the people have to play a part.” He compared his challenge to Kennedy’s pledge in May 1961 to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
Gore narrowly lost the presidential race in 2000 to then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush after a campaign in which his prescient views on climate change took a back seat to other issues. In the 2008 presidential race, both the Republican and Democrat candidates support action to curb the gases blamed for global warming.
While dismissing a suggestion that he pulled his punches eight years ago, Gore said his goal now is to “enlarge the political space” within which politicians can “deal with the climate challenge.”
To meet his 10-year goal, Gore said nuclear energy output would continue at current levels while the U.S. dramatically increases its use of solar, wind, geothermal and clean coal energy. Huge investments must also be made in technologies that reduce energy waste and link existing power grids, he said.
Gore’s proposal would represent a significant shift in where the U.S. gets its power. In 2005, the United States produced nearly 3.7 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, with coal providing slightly more than half of that energy, according to government statistics. Nuclear power accounted for 21 percent, natural gas 15 percent and renewable sources, including wind and solar, about 8.6 percent.
Coal’s share of electricity generation is only expected to grow come 2030, according to Energy Department forecasts, while renewable energy would still only provide 11 percent of the nation’s power.
Without action, the cost of oil will continue to rise as fast-growing China and India increase demand, Gore said. Sustained addiction to oil also will place the U.S. at the mercy of oil-producing governments, he said, and the globe would suffer irreparable harm.
Government experts recently predicted that, at the current rate and without an international treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, world energy demand will grow 50 percent over the next two decades. The Energy Information Administration also said in its long-range forecast to 2030 that the world is not close to abandoning fossil fuels despite their role in global warming.
While electricity production is only part of the nation’s energy and climate change problem, Gore said, “If we meet this challenge we will solve the rest of it.”
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10 Responses to “Gore is off his rocker; THIS is Obama’s Energy Policy Advisor?”
You say McCain only by 25? I am still undecided on whether I will cast a vote in the presidential race, but I forcast a much greater blowout.
The only real question is whether McCain will go for history and become the only man not named Robert C. Byrd to carry all 55 counties. There may be enough straight ticket votes to keep a close contest in several southern counties, but Obama is going to need a lot more than the 11% of the Democratic primary vote he got in Mingo County (several other strongly Democratic coalfield counties were similarly unenthused about The Most Merciful Lord Messiah Barack [middle name redacted] Obama). I know southern coalfield Democrats quite well and BO just won’t win their votes. I don’t think they would even sell their votes if a bunch of people from Chicago came here to buy votes for 10 times the going rate like they did for JFK in the 1960 primary.
Climate change???!!! So what! The climate has been changing since the beginnning of time! So-called “greenhouse gasses” have little or nothing to do with it.
Al Gore’s agenda, if ever pushed through, will kill this - and many other - country’s economies…..and it will all be for nothing!
I used to think he was just a simple idiot, but I’ve changed my mind….he’s plain evil!
Were it not for climate change we would still have dinosaurs cruising around. Were it not for climate change we might have wolly mammoths in the back yard.
And I think deer are a problem in my garden and on the highways.
West Va. gets 99 percent of its electricity from coal-generated power plants. Good luck functioning without electricity - no schools, hospitals, businesses, prisons, factories. We couldn’t even have oil lamps in lieu of electric lights - presumably they also emit the CO2 that Gore falsely claims “causes” warming.
And with the racists in West Virginia not voting for Obama, Obama will enjoy sending the jack-booted EPA thugs to our poor State and crush the evil coal industry.
“No Drill” Rahall, “Carpetbagger” Rockefeller, “Never-Done-Nothing” Mollahan and “Crazy Grandpa” Byrd will tell their Democrat voters all is well and promise massive new Government programs to make up for the Federal abuse.
Finally, West Virginia will fulfill the Socialist Dream of complete dependence on the Government !
Gore is not off his rocker, Gore hates his Country and all of the people in his Country.
Gore feels betrayed by his Country since he believes he won the Presidential election and it was stolen from him by the Supreme Court.
Gore’s hatred has been channeled into the Global Warming religion and he believes it to be a way to get back at his evil Country and Countrymen.
Gore knows his global warming hysteria will impact public policy and bring misery and suffering to the Country and people who hurt him.. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Why did he win the Nobel prize ? Because the Europeans and Gore are kindred spirits, all hating the US and what we stand for.
Unfortunately, the mindelss-spineless Congress are going to play along with this and YOU are going to pay.
Gore is a misguided crusader who hates being out of the limelight. However he must make more and more asinine statements to get attention from the media.
He probably forgets that his own state employs a lot of coal miners.
Republicans need to challenge Rockefeller, Rahall, and Barth and ask them if they support eliminating coal in ten years. If not they need to stand up and support John McCain.
We need diversified energy sources, but there is no way on earth that these other sources can replace coal, oil, and gas, unless the US cuts back on its production, prosperity, and standard of living. We can do it, but we would also be rationing power. That is unacceptable.
John McSame Lies!
John Mcsame said that he would NOT resort to smear campain tactics… then what do we see???
smear ads… with his endorsement…
If he lies now before becoming Pres. then what…
ads about big oil being a problem when his top advisors are… You guessed it… Big Oil!
you decide.
McCain’s top advisors are “big oil”? I don’t suppose you’d have any specific names or anything, eh?
Let me put it this way: The number of issues on which I disagree with McCain can be counted on one of my hands. If I take off my socks & shoes and count both hands as well as all 10 toes, I still will not have touched the number of issues on which I disagree with Obama.
Now just who’s the obvious choice for my vote??
p.s. (I also noticed you didn’t address the Senator’s original post AT ALL. You just spouted moveon.org/DNC propaganda, as is usually the case with you libs. S-I-G-H!)
NEXT?
Additionally, “big oil” is a bad thing only if you’re a class warrior. We don’t need that kind of socialist thinking being implemented in America. Take it to France or Switzerland, k? We actually value FREEDOM here.