AMERICAblog: Gore: US should abandon fossil fuels by 2018
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
About time, if we burn much more dinosaur juice, we'll find ourselves going the way of the dinosaurs.
gumdrops
· 1 year ago
Hopeful all the fossils will be gone by then...including Gee Dubya and Pappy McCain.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
There America...happy now? Happy that you voted in droves for a chimpanzee with an IQ of 4? Happy now that you decided in 2000 that this Chimp was more fun to have a beer with? Happy now that you did not elect this great visionary? If only a few more people had voted based on vision instead of where I stick my dick at night, maybe this man would have led the nation and the world into a new time of economic growth and potential and new energies and maybe global warming would at least be slowing or stable. But no we were more concerned with fags and dykes, abortion, gun rights, and who we "feel" good about.
As Brecht says in "Mahaghony"... AS YOU MAKE YOUR BED SO YOU LIE THERE...
michaelt
· 1 year ago
Al Gore is an idiot. How does he expect the oil companies to survive in such a hostile environment. Doesn't he know they've got mansions to maintain. Limo's to polish. Who's gonna do that? Him? I don't think so. Think before you speak Al.
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
I wish he would have talked like that back when he was VP......
BarrieT
· 1 year ago
Burn American body fat, a renewable resource in plentiful supply.
Girlfriend, Larry craig, you just WREAK of 'mo. Grow up and come out. Oh and while you're at it, go home. Drilling here ain't the answer. The answer is a "men on the moon" mission ala Kennedy for all electric vehicles for one household driver and a hybrid for the other...hybrid using something other than petrol. That old broad needs a make over quick.
LasloPratt
· 1 year ago
Why should we listen to him? It's not like he was ever elected president or anything...
BostonJoe
· 1 year ago
When "BIG AL" cuts back on his use of SUV'S, or FLYING, or the heated swimming pool, or the Mansion, or the Hot Air, maybe others will too!
mirth
· 1 year ago
Speaking of idgit trolls who occasionally drop in...
Ding!Ding!Ding!
Altho, BostonJoe will have to work it to catch up with johnkerry.
ndtovent
· 1 year ago
Yeah, no kidding.
I just heard today that renovations on Gores home were completed for a totally green estate. It's now one of the greenest houses in the nation. Even though it's a mansion, it's totally green, so it DOES set an example, but SOME people (like the troll above) just refuse to keep informed. They only hear/read/see selectively through rosey colored glasses after they've had a beer with their favorite chimp.
mirth
· 1 year ago
ndtovent, I should have given BostonJoe some info instead of just a troll smack.
2018 is a little soon. Maybe we'll do that after the Trade War with the EU in 2035.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
We already only use maybe 8 or 9 gallons of gas a week; we don't fly--hell, we don't go anywhere. And no, we're not bored. We meet our neighbors, have a weekly meal with them and concentrate on home and hearth (well, we really don't have one of those).
You all should see the series, "Earth, The Biography" on Natl Geo if "Inconvenient Truth" didn't shake you up enough. Iain Stewart is a geologist and made the series; he's also done some other stuff as well. You might learn some more, and its obvious Stewart loves the planet and all nature has to offer.
I had a sinking feeling after viewing it that the human race may soon be extinct. And sooner than we think. It just may be too late to do anything, but we have to try. And more people need to be convinced. Most now are just pissed off about gas prices and how that is affecting them, without regard for the rest of the world and what's going on. NPR even had the gall to ask "Do you have global warming fatigue?" when discussing a new movie called "Sizzle" which puts it in a humorous light while getting the message through. Frankly, I can't get enough education on this, giving us warnings so many don't take seriously.
EmGD
· 1 year ago
How can I take Al Gore seriously? He doesn't live in a tent and I have a sneaking suspicion that he once used a gas powered vehicle to get somewhere once.
You've got a point, but it's the way we're all going to have to go.
ShirleyGoodnessanMercy
· 1 year ago
No, EmGD does not have a point. He/She tried (unsuccessfully) to attack Gore because he/she can not refute the message of Gore's speech.
mirth
· 1 year ago
Sarcasm is often misinterpreted.
^5 to EmGD
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
The man is a visionary. This is not something the wright "wing" nuts want to hear.
jr
· 1 year ago
"all fuel except oil is wussy"-repubs
Ross_Smith
· 1 year ago
Nice enough speech.
Seems to be lurching from insufficient remedies (screw in a different light bulb in Inconvenient Truth) to impractical remedies. Yawn.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
i'm in, Al. it's already happening anyway.
these sean hannity wannabe trolls sound all the same. yawn, my ass.
ShirleyGoodnessanMercy
· 1 year ago
So true. 80 to 90% of the comments on Americablog are by rightwing trolls these days. They have pretty much killed the value of the comments field on Americablog.
mirth
· 1 year ago
ShirleyGoodnessanMercy,
Whoa! What a slap to all of the informed, intelligent, decidedly Liberal AB commenters. I can't begin to imagine how you came to this wrong conclusion, except that perhaps you do not get incisive wit or biting sarcasm.
I'm glad that John lets a few, a very few, trolls have their say. Not only do they keep us from merely talking to ourselves, how else are we to understand their ridiculous thinking? But to say these nuts are the majority of commenters is simply...nuts.
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
I'm quite sure most of you don't know the real history behind the Gore family, do you??
Now mind you, I LIKED Al Gore, until I read the real history behind his family:
Nice sentiment but more than a little impractical. The modern world since the industrial revolution and all it's seven billion people are the product of this fantastically concentrated and non-renewable source of energy - fossil fuels. There's no substitute. We're trapped. Gore's right to be alarmed but he's hardly the best messenger. Eight years ago he suggested that creationism should be taught alongside science in our high schools. Makes one wonder how much he really understands.
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
Blueflash, read my link above, you will know so much more about Al Gore.
ShirleyGoodnessanMercy
· 1 year ago
The link for this article doesn't work.
Al Gore restores my hope for America. If we don't rise to his challenge we are doomed.
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As Brecht says in "Mahaghony"...
AS YOU MAKE YOUR BED SO YOU LIE THERE...
Just tap people like rubber trees.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vqANJCATrE&eurl...
swimming pool, or the Mansion, or the Hot Air, maybe others will too!
Ding!Ding!Ding!
Altho, BostonJoe will have to work it to catch up with johnkerry.
I just heard today that renovations on Gores home were completed for a totally green estate. It's now one of the greenest houses in the nation. Even though it's a mansion, it's totally green, so it DOES set an example, but SOME people (like the troll above) just refuse to keep informed. They only hear/read/see selectively through rosey colored glasses after they've had a beer with their favorite chimp.
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/state/article/0,140...
http://www.charlesandhudson.com/archives/2007/1...
You all should see the series, "Earth, The Biography" on Natl Geo if "Inconvenient Truth" didn't shake you up enough. Iain Stewart is a geologist and made the series; he's also done some other stuff as well. You might learn some more, and its obvious Stewart loves the planet and all nature has to offer.
I had a sinking feeling after viewing it that the human race may soon be extinct. And sooner than we think. It just may be too late to do anything, but we have to try. And more people need to be convinced. Most now are just pissed off about gas prices and how that is affecting them, without regard for the rest of the world and what's going on. NPR even had the gall to ask "Do you have global warming fatigue?" when discussing a new movie called "Sizzle" which puts it in a humorous light while getting the message through. Frankly, I can't get enough education on this, giving us warnings so many don't take seriously.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
^5 to EmGD
Seems to be lurching from insufficient remedies (screw in a different light bulb in Inconvenient Truth) to impractical remedies. Yawn.
these sean hannity wannabe trolls sound all the same.
yawn, my ass.
Whoa! What a slap to all of the informed, intelligent, decidedly Liberal AB commenters. I can't begin to imagine how you came to this wrong conclusion, except that perhaps you do not get incisive wit or biting sarcasm.
I'm glad that John lets a few, a very few, trolls have their say. Not only do they keep us from merely talking to ourselves, how else are we to understand their ridiculous thinking? But to say these nuts are the majority of commenters is simply...nuts.
Now mind you, I LIKED Al Gore, until I read the real history behind his family:
The Swamp Whence Al Gore Came
What Al Gore represents, in particular, is a picaresque reflection of the essence of the oligarchical model traced in our national history from traitors such as Lord Shelburne-backed crony of the British Foreign Office's Jeremy Bentham, the traitor Aaron Burr who founded the Bank of Manhattan. This connection to Gore has been shown most clearly by that almost swamp-creature-like, self-disgraced Tennessean's "mint-julip" racist, and "environmentalist" (i.e., eugenics) orientation, in alliance with Britain's Fabian imperial Prime Minister Tony Blair, against the black-skinned population and nations of sub-Saharan Africa.
Al Gore restores my hope for America. If we don't rise to his challenge we are doomed.