Brian 74's Comments
I'm embarassed for Neatorama that it's buying into this right-wing BS. Gore's house does use a lot of energy, but it's all comes from wind, solar and geothermal energy sources. See the TVA's "green switch" program here:
http://www.tva.gov/greenpowerswitch/green_mainfaq.htm
It costs $4 per 150 kW/hour to subsidize investment in 'green' energy.
The energy of the jet that Gore uses is balanced by carbon off-sets. Think that's bull? Why do you think acid rain has decreased so dramatically in the US? Because the system of off-sets and credits used to regulate sulfuric acid emissions from coal plants worked. The truth is that off-sets and credits work for pollution that doesn't come from a point source (i.e. pollution that diffuses rapidly into the environment, rather that pooling near where it is released).
When blogs like Neatorama uncritically report bullshit like this smear of Gore, they do a disservice to anyone who cares at all about truth. It's not even as though it would take much research to see that the "news story" is in fact a press release created by a right-wing smear group.
http://www.tva.gov/greenpowerswitch/green_mainfaq.htm
It costs $4 per 150 kW/hour to subsidize investment in 'green' energy.
The energy of the jet that Gore uses is balanced by carbon off-sets. Think that's bull? Why do you think acid rain has decreased so dramatically in the US? Because the system of off-sets and credits used to regulate sulfuric acid emissions from coal plants worked. The truth is that off-sets and credits work for pollution that doesn't come from a point source (i.e. pollution that diffuses rapidly into the environment, rather that pooling near where it is released).
When blogs like Neatorama uncritically report bullshit like this smear of Gore, they do a disservice to anyone who cares at all about truth. It's not even as though it would take much research to see that the "news story" is in fact a press release created by a right-wing smear group.
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The major problem with your front-page post was that you simply repeated the right-wing talking points on Gore and reduced the rebuttal to simple finger-pointing (as though the entirety of the debate were about whether Gore or Cheney is the worst offender, rather than the deliberate half-truths of the right's smear machine). You're not fostering much of a debate on the issues if you just uncritically repeat press-releases.