Al Gore's Electric Bill, Carbon Credits, and A Lesson In Economics

One could start by reading the article instead of just responding to a strawman.  I never even mentioned the Oscars.  Drop the talking points and try to have a serious conversation. 

I wonder how many carbon credits the right-wing media would have to buy to offset the cubic miles of hot air, oilfields worth of electricity production needs and forests of waste paper created in their feigned outrage over Gore's electric usage. They don't want a central government approach to greenhouse gas reduction, and now it's clear they don't want a free-market approach either. It's obvious they just want to pollute the discussion with a thick enough smokescreen for them and their willfully ignorant adherents (see the first comment in this thread) to pretend that there simply is no problem.

Shooting the messanger isn't going to save this planet. This isn't about Al's lightbulbs.

I thought "An Inconvenient Truth" documentary was quite educational. The movie makes it crystal clear that we all need to work to address global warming -- now, before it is too late.  Regarding how much energy Al Gore's home does or does not consume, I'll leave that important life altering fact to those who most certainly don't live in glass houses.  In the meantime maybe the rest of us could get focused on the message, not the messenger!

Orwell was right: you can change the language until you change behavior, ie. "GORE MANSION USES 20X AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD; CONSUMPTION INCREASE AFTER 'TRUTH'." By demonizing good, serious, sincere environmentalists, the political right and its allies are attempting to make it impossible for people to hear environmentalists.
In the mean time "Rome" is burning. It is interesting that Johnson said his group got its figures from Nashville Electric Service. But company spokeswoman Laurie Parker said the utility never got a request from the policy center and never gave it any information That being said when I first heard this I was dismayed, Carbon Neutral seems like a "lame" better then nothing solution, however he would of been better served had he made his house an example by adding sufficent alternative energy solutions.

Why would anyone want to "buy" carbon credits.  The most effective way to "clean" the environment is to stop or decrease what is being done.  It's just alot of political smoke and mirrors not amounts to nothing but the mind set of poor economics.  Oh...wait a minute.....maybe it isn't poor economics.  The company that Tipper and Al are "buying" their "carbon credits" is...ummm...what's the name....Generation Investment Management LLP....that's it.  Oh....and who happens to be the Chairman of the Board....go check.........sounds like someone is just paying themselves......it's just politics as usual.....or it could be unusual politics....who knows.  A positive effect on the environment would to be to decrease activities that may produce the CO2 level. 

Hypocrites!

George Clooney, Al Gore and the Private Jet Socialists love to tell those of us who are of average means how we must make sacrifices in order to save the planet.  How about they stop flying in private jets, running around town in limos and heating huge homes (complete with heated outdoor pools and built-in air conditioning) and just maybe I will give them a audience.  I am sick and tired of being told to "do as I say and not as I do".  Until then....STFU!!!