1Declaration: Free Markets, Free People, Free Minds

Have you ever heard the old saying that actions speak louder than words. Clearly Al Gore has not. Former Vice President, Presidential Nominee, and global warming alarmist Al Gore clearly has not, either that or he is really just a hypocrite or nonbeliever of global warming.

“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”

In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.

Al Gore as is well known made an award winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, and went on to win a Nobel Peace Price on what many climatologists and meteorologists will tell you is soft science. A New Zealand court stated multiple major falsehoods that were portrayed in the movie and urged Al Gore to give back his Emmy for Best Documentary. Had Al Gore created a drama it would have been fine but a documentary indicates that the information presented is factual.

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research uncovered that Gore’s Nashville home guzzled 20 times more electricity than the average American household.

After the Tennessee Center for Policy Research exposed Gore’s massive home energy use, the former Vice President scurried to make his home more energy-efficient. Despite adding solar panels, installing a geothermal system, replacing existing light bulbs with more efficient models, and overhauling the home’s windows and ductwork, Gore now consumes more electricity than before the “green” overhaul.

Since taking steps to make his home more environmentally-friendly last June, Gore devours an average of 17,768 kWh per month –1,638 kWh more energy per month than before the renovations – at a cost of $16,533. By comparison, the average American household consumes 11,040 kWh in an entire year, according to the Energy Information Administration.

So what is Al Gore's motives? Are they really an attempt to change the world and stop a phenomenon that is highly debated among academics? I would contend that Al Gore is motivated by profit and power. Al Gore has become a god among environmentalists and liberals. Liberals throughout history have created situations of overhyped danger in an attempt to garner power from Hitler to JFK. Now I am not comparing Gore to Hitler. That would be pure ignorance. I am comparing tactics used by both men to garner more power by creating fear among the masses in an attempt to garner power and stature.

Gore's other motive: Money! "Gore saw his personal wealth increase by an estimated $100 million thanks largely to speaking fees and investments related to global warming hysteria." That's right Al Gore is getting rich off of soft science and fear mongering.

Now I am a free market guy and clearly some people want to waste their money to give him a nice house and a private jet so I am fine with that, but stop calling this guy a saint or savior of the world. He is not. Al Gore is a hypocrite and elitist at best if he does believe what he is saying. At worst though Al Gore is a nonbeliever garnering political power and wealth. Either way, Al Gore is hindering the United States from expanding and utilizing our own energy resources in the name of global warming, a soft science.

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