Gore Wants U.S. to Abandon Fossil Fuels in 10 Years

Al Gore once again proves that he’s either a complete idiot, or a complete fraud.

The Nobel laureate and former US vice president, Al Gore, has urged Americans to abandon electricity generated by fossil fuels within a decade.

Consider this graph and think about what Gore said:

Gore is saying that we should rip out 71.1% of the nation’s energy plants and replace them in a decade.  Keep in mind that that infrastructure has been built over the course of a century.  Or, as the story says:

Robby Diamond, president of a bipartisan think tank called Securing America’s Future Energy, said weaning the nation off fossil fuels could not be done in a decade.

“The country is not going to be able to go cold turkey,” he told the Associated Press.

“We have a hundred years of infrastructure with trillions of dollars of investment that is not simply going to be made obsolete.”

Also, consider Gore’s excuse that we should do this because “it did not make sense that the US was borrowing money from China to burn oil from the Middle East which then contributed to climate change.” Over 50% of America’s energy production comes from COAL, which we do not buy from the Middle East. 

Gore’s a complete buffoon and anyone who listens to him regarding energy policy should have their head checked for tumors. 

1. Why can’t he be both a fraud and an idiot?

   Posted by on July 17, 2008 at 2204 hrs




2. It’s absolutly depressing to me to think that there are so many of my fellow countrymen that listen to the inane drivel of this idiotic buffoon and believe him with almost the same worshipful reverence as they do the Black Messiah.

   I guess it harkens back to the old saw, “What’s this country coming to?!”

   Posted by on July 18, 2008 at 0809 hrs




3. Dang...Dan beat me to it.  I didn’t know it was a multiple choice question.

   Posted by on July 18, 2008 at 0851 hrs




4. I thought Algore said the Earth would be gone within ten years?

   Posted by on July 18, 2008 at 0946 hrs




5. Owen, you are usually a fairly affable guy so it is puzzling when you go all ape when it comes to Al Gore.

   Hard to find anything wrong with focusing our efforts to combat a condition which threatens our existence as a species.

   If you don’t buy that, then what about our dependence on countries outside our border, the grip rising energy costs have on our economy and the need to blow billions on a military to protect our oil interests around the world?

   Posted by on July 18, 2008 at 1246 hrs




6. Keith,
   Framing impossible wishes as “focusing our efforts” is not something “hard to find anything wrong with,” its simply delusional. 

   Consider it the equivalent of a politician stating that he will be giving everyone in the United States enough money so that no one will ever have to work again.

   Is that hard to find anything wrong with because it focuses our efforts on eradicating poverty?

   First, Gore invented the Internet, then he invented a AGW, now he is inventing completely unworkable solutions to a problem he made up. 

   Viewing this statement as anything other pure nonsense is moronic.

   Posted by on July 18, 2008 at 1419 hrs




7. When I was a boy in 50s politicians never uttured the kind of nonsense that some do today. My first vote for Presdent was for John Kennedy. If JFK said the things Obama, Gore, and the current congressional leaders are saying today the voters would have laughed at him.

   The great Democrat Presidents of the twentieth century, FDR, Truman, and JFK would never dream of surrender in Iraq. Complete victory is now within reach. Depriving our Soldiers and Marines of that victory in Iraq would be the greatest insult ever to our military forces.

   I often ask myself what happened to millions of Americans?? Are nearly 50% of us incapable of rational thinking??

   Posted by on July 18, 2008 at 1512 hrs




8. If JFK said the things Obama, Gore, and the current congressional leaders are saying today the voters would have laughed at him.

   I had a similar thought when I heard a synopsis of Gore’s comments repeated on the nightly news.  Most of the federal politicians in this country occasionally spew crap that should be laughed at.  The media shouldn’t allow politicians to make statements that have no basis in reality without challenging them to explain how their proposals could ever be possible.  When Gore says we should abandon 70% of our electricity producing facilities or McCain says he can balance the budget while implementing tax cuts it isn’t partisan or spin to inform the voters that the things being proposed are nearly impossible.  It is simply a reality check… something the pols, the media and the voters of this country severely need.

   Posted by on July 18, 2008 at 1606 hrs




9. If JFK said the things Obama, Gore, and the current congressional leaders are saying today the voters would have laughed at him.

   Such as when JFK pronounced that we should send a man to the moon by the end of the decade?  Even though at the time NO ONE really had a clue as how to get a man there, let alone back again?
   “We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

   Posted by on July 18, 2008 at 1629 hrs




10. REL, your statement that Gore said he invented the internet is complete BS. Maureen Dowd made that up and the media and certainly the GOP ran with it to fit there meme that Gore made things up. You see the GOP can’t run on issues, so they have to make up this kind of crap.

    Vint Cerf, who did literally invent the internet said that Al Gore made the internet possible. So this is how you thank Gore, by believing in myths.

    Gore wouldn’t have said this if it wasn’t possible. As for Kennedy, didn’t he say something to the effect guys that we would be on the moon by the end of the 60’s, feat judged to be impossible with our rockets at the time blowing up on the launch pad.

    As far as FDR looking for victory in Iraq, he would have defined it better than Bush and Truman, as he did during WWII, would have rooted out the rampant corruption that was allowed in Iraq by this administration.

    Your comment about Gore absolutely sunk any credibility you though you may have had.

    So what if this may not work out ten years later. We have to have some kind of plan don’t we?

    Posted by on July 18, 2008 at 1640 hrs




11. Just one more thing. To even thing that FDR, HST or JFK would have even gotten us into a mess like Iraq is to be kind, pure delusion, and certainly they would have been involved in any kind of a preemptive against a country that was no threat to our interests.

    Wow. Just wow.

    Posted by on July 18, 2008 at 1657 hrs




12. Keith,
    You’re right, I was wrong, lets transition from fossil fuels to something else.  Just let me know what a cost-effective version of that “something else” is and I’ll be on board.

    By the way, can I have a unicorn as a pet in magic Al Gore fantasyland?

    Sorry, I forgot that I had no credibility.  Please ignore all of the above.

    Posted by on July 18, 2008 at 2005 hrs




13. The United States runs on oil, in fact the all developed nations run on oil. To suggest the planet can be weaned off oil in ten years is pure nonssnse. The world has a multi decade transistion period ahead of it, to move from it’s crude oil based economies. The only hope humanity has of maintaining our standard of living during the transition period is to develop ALL forms of energy. Oil, gas, coal, solar, wind, geo thermal, and yes nukes, SIMULTANIOUSLY. Furthermore it’s entirely possible the future method of generating massive amounts of electricity has net been invented yet. Nuclear fusion is one possibility. Now all this talk of politicians producing an energy policy. Polticians gave us one energy policy, corn based ethanol. Well the juies in, corn ethanol is a failure. There’s a moral to that exercise. Politicians DO NOT UNDERSTAND the energy business.
    Now let’s cut the endless chatter and turn loose the massive pool of brainpower in this world to solve the problem.

    Posted by on July 18, 2008 at 2149 hrs




14. What the hell REl, you toss around discredited myths like “Al Gore says he invented the internet” and you blow your credibility.

    The status quo is going to kill us very soon. So what’s your solution other than echoing back you don’t like Gore’s audacity.

    But this is what the right wing is all about. Caution. Fear. Being afraid.

    Posted by on July 19, 2008 at 0848 hrs




15. Keith,
    If the definition of audacity is making BS statements to get publicity - yeah, I don’t like Gore’s audacity. 

    I’m not afraid of Gore’s proposal, but believing that it is at all serious is like beliving in the boogeyman.

    I will repeat the only part of my comments above that was not tongue-in-cheek:  “lets transition from fossil fuels to something else.  Just let me know what a cost-effective version of that “something else” is and I’ll be on board.”

    If you can’t answer that question, Gore’s statements are at best wishful thinking and at worst calculated lies designed to bring more money, power and publicity to a narcissistic ass.

    Posted by on July 20, 2008 at 1033 hrs