Gore leaves car idling for one hour during speech; Opts for Swedish government jet over public trans

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**Frazzled**

http://www.climatedepot.com/a/8595/Gore-leaves-car-idling-for-one-hour-during-speech-Opts-for-Swedish-government-jet-over-public-transportation

Gore leaves car idling for one hour during speech; Opts for Swedish government jet over public transportation
'Local legislation prohibits any car engine running for more than 60 seconds' -- But Gore Not Fined

Thursday, October 28, 2010By Marc Morano – Climate Depot
Reprinted from CFACT.EU

Frankly Sir, You Are an Embarrassment

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 10:35 AM PDT
By Einar Du Rietz

Al Gore -- He did it again.

Recently, Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore toured again. Or maybe he does that all the time. This time, he turned up in Gothenburg (Sweden) for the usual alarmist talk. In advance, all distinguished guests were politely advised to – if possible – use any form of public transportation to go to the event, in order to minimize CO2 emissions.

Intriguingly, the Master of World Climate himself arrived in a rental car (with or without driver is unclear), from the airport, and subsequently left the engine running for the entire lecture. That is to say, about one hour. Incidentally, local legislation prohibits – for very good environmental reasons, i e pollution – any car engine running on empty for more than 60 seconds. Fines are severe. As far as I know, he was not fined.

It starts to form a pattern.

After the ceremony in the Norwegian capital Oslo, it is customary that the laureate is invited to the Swedish capital Stockholm, for a cordial visit. The train ride, supposedly the environmental choice according to Mr. Gore, is approximately four hours. However, he opted for the cosier ride with one of the Swedish government aircrafts. As these can, according to the rules, only be used when a cabinet member is on board – and as the Swedish government after a short ceremonial visit – offered to fly him to Frankfurt (Germany) for his flight to the US, you can calculate both the manpower and the fuel used for this grand tour against man's destruction of the planet.

Stupidity and hypocracy – as well as vanity – are, like it or not common human traits. I admit to some of them occasionally, but I don't demand taxpayers to finance my stupid talks at dinner (yes, I love doing that). Here's the deal Mr Gore: get out of my way, and I will keep out of yours

**Kilkrazy**

hypocracy is an archaic mediaeval word for a kind of pudding.

Here's the deal, bloggers keep on saying whatever they like and Gore will also keep on saying whatever he likes.

It's called freedom of speech.

**Catyrpelius**

i prefer Rush Limbaugh's method of saveing the enviroment.

On Earthday a few years back he went out of his way to celabrate the event. While people were trying to conserve energy on this day he took a completly diffrent approach. At his home in Flordia he opened all the windows and turned his AC on to full blast. Every light in the house was lite as well were several of those large spotlights. He also had his personal jet flown across the country and back twice without anyone but the piolets inside.

I say, screw the enviroment!

**CT GAMER**

Well he did invent the internet so I guess we can cut him a little slack...

**halonachos**

This is super serial guys.

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Catyrpelius wrote:i prefer Rush Limbaugh's method of saveing the enviroment.

On Earthday a few years back he went out of his way to celabrate the event. While people were trying to conserve energy on this day he took a completly diffrent approach. At his home in Flordia he opened all the windows and turned his AC on to full blast. Every light in the house was lite as well were several of those large spotlights. He also had his personal jet flown across the country and back twice without anyone but the piolets inside.

I say, screw the enviroment!

Nice

PS. Piolets
Are they crap aviators?
or do they just pee on everyone else from a great height?

**LordofHats**

I'm confused. I though no body took Al Gore seriously anymore... At least not on the environment. Everyone knows that his most important cause now is:

Wanted dead or alive

Also:

halonachos wrote:This is super serial guys.

Aw you beat me too it.

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

So who is this Marc Morono?

Sorry but the car idling in a country that fines for such activity of more than 60 seconds is sounding suspect.
He is a journo so why do I believe him rather than the science?
He is a conservative with an agenda, so this doesn't seem like unbiased reporting.

Mr. Morano’s new Web site is being financed by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a nonprofit in Washington that advocates for free-market solutions to environmental issues.

Craig Rucker, a co-founder of the organization, said the committee got about a third of its money from other foundations. But Mr. Rucker would not identify them or say how much his foundation would pay Mr. Morano. (Mr. Morano says it will be more than the $134,000 he earned annually in the Senate.)

Public tax filings for 2003-7 — the last five years for which documents are available — show that the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the ExxonMobil Foundation and from foundations associated with the billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, a longtime financer of conservative causes

(from the NY Times)
Is a pot that was used to make a mediaeval pud calling a kettle black the same as hypocracy?