Gore Says Offshore Drilling Liker Invading Iraq
In a surprise appearance at Netroots Nation — which apparently was the worst-kept secret in Austin, Texas — former Vice President Al Gore followed up a speech by Nancy Pelosi by laying out a narrative on climate change and the energy crisis that seems ready-made for the Obama campaign to download.
“If you look at the seriousness of the climate crisis, you see how it ties to the economic crisis and the national security threat that we face,” he said. “200 billion dollars are being sent overseas just from oil.”
“The idea that we can drill our way out of this is just so absurd,” he said, comparing the push for offshore oil drilling — which has gained popularity and put environmentalists on the defense — to dealing with a hangover by having another drink.
“The defenders of the status quo are the ones who have dug us into this hole,” he said, commenting that Americans have been “so often fooled into finding a remedy for a problem” that has nothing to do with the problem at hand — pointing to the invasion of Iraq when America was attacked by terrorists in Afghanistan as an example.
“The engines of distraction and the great concentrated power of communication that you’ve seen turned on this issue or that issue is already hard at work,” he says. “They will say we can’t switch away from oil.”
“We have to switch our electricity generation system,” he says, noting that changing transportation fuels will take longer, before reiterating his plan to ensure that “100 percent of our electricity [comes] from renewable sources and carbon-constrained fuels over the next 10 years.”
“It is not partisan, it is focused on this single objective,” he says. “we are trying to mobilize ten million grassroots activists.”
In response to a question about whether he’d join an Obama administration as climate czar, he says he’d rather “focus on trying to enlarge the political space in which political officials address this climate crisis … I have seen how important it is to develop a base of support.
(Politico)
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“The defenders of the status quo are the ones who have dug us into this hole,” Is he talking about himself and his party’s rampant fear of nuclear power and energy independence in general? I can’t tell.
July 20th, 2008 at 4:24 pmSully0811 >> I doubt he can tell either, he opens his mouth and shit rolls.
July 20th, 2008 at 5:06 pmAl who?
July 20th, 2008 at 6:28 pmI really think losing in 2000 drove him mad.
July 20th, 2008 at 6:43 pmListening to his constant drone of bullshit is driving me mad
July 20th, 2008 at 7:52 pmDear manbearpig, you suffer from “Narcissistic Personality Disorder”
In other words you are a Sociopath and have been one since you were a kid.
You are a Loser and the Leader of possibly the biggest hoax ever played on Mankind.
Why? Explain it anyway you want so long as you spell it…
S-O-C-I-O-P-A-T-H.
PS - Dollardites, this going to be my standard comment for manbearpig, because in my opinion he’s not worth any additional keyboard strokes…unless Pat busts my chops about it, then, well…maybe I’ll think about something else.
July 20th, 2008 at 10:50 pmAl Gore is on the board of directors of several environmental companies and stands to be come a multi-billionaire from Cap-and-Trade bills and carbon credits. George Soros II.
July 21st, 2008 at 3:38 amThe AGW story is leaking air like a burlap balloon, and all the pumping in the world won’t keep it inflated. Gore is goin’ DOWN!
July 21st, 2008 at 7:24 am