Al Gore and the Politics of Hypocrisy

Well it's summertime, and idiocy abounds. By that I mean Al Gore and his latest plan to save the world from climate change.

This wanna-be president, with all the charisma of wet paint, just cannot keep his mouth shut, can he? Give a guy an Academy Award, stick an Nobel Prize in his hand, and suddenly he feels that anything he says is important and should be followed without question.

His latest rambling, according to the BBC, is that the US can and should move entirely away from generating electricity produced from burning fossil fuels in 10 years. According to him (or should that now be spelled HIM?) we need to "tax what we burn - not what we earn" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7513002.stm). Yeah, great plan. Spoken like a true country-club Liberal; and by that I mean a total idiot!

Well, with all due 'respect' to Al "I invented the Internet' Gore, I think he has become the poster-boy of self-righteous, ignorant, buffoons; and who's ego over the plaudits and praise given for his flawed 'Inconvenient Truth' has finally surpassed his intelligence. Unlike him, and his Liberal, idealistic (if not drug-addicted, colleagues), most of us live in what I call the 'real world,' not the jet-setting, limo-chauffeured, mansion-living one that he does. Hence his latest 'brain fart' should be taken as the mere ramblings of a self-indulgent twerp than the clear reasoning of an average hard-working man and woman; people who don't have the millions of dollars that he does to shield their families from the costs associated with Gore's latest 'good idea.'

Already private industry has gotten the message; high oil prices are here to stay and we better get used to it. That has already started to transform our economy by the introduction of more and more fuel-efficient vehicles, more demand for alternative clean fuels by energy consumers, and a bearing down by average families to focus more on the essentials. Unfortunately that has also resulted economic hardship, too, as higher energy prices mean less disposable income available for travel, entertainment, and the other 'treats' that we have long enjoyed. Some have even lost their own homes as a result, while others can now barely afford to buy food for their children as the impact of higher energy costs works its way through the system.

Of course, this has no affect on Mr. Gore. With his fame, and his millions, people like him and other country-club Liberals can afford to spout off about the need for switching off fossil fuels and 'taxing what we burn not earn.' After all, it won't affect THEIR lifestyles, which are already far beyond the scope of the ordinary middle class family they claim to support. Of course, that's the rub here too, and why I personally resent this kind of blabber from people who, in another century, would have considered themselves our 'betters'

While we ditch our small cars and cram ourselves into trains to get to work, they'll still be getting their limo driver to drop them off to the latest shin-dig to celebrate their own pomposity. While we take the Greyhound and drive for 3 days to visit our relatives across the country, they'll still be using their private jets and drinking fine wine and eating good food to make their 3 hour 'ordeal' more palatable. And while the US and the world might, after the average working man and woman learns to live on table scraps while paying a mortgage on a house no bigger than an energy-efficient cardboard box, finally switch off fossil fuels entirely, the self-congratulatory talk of people of Mr. Gore's ilk, will likely make up in sheer hot air whatever reduction in the emissions of carbon our now-impoverished society will have made.

Frankly, I don't see a net benefit out of this for anyone, except guys like Mr. Gore and his ilk. So unless he and his country-club Liberal clique are prepared to impoverish themselves (the way they expect the average man and woman too), in order to accomplish these 'nobel' goals, I believe the best way to stop global warming is for him to shut his trap and count his blessings instead.

After all these years of hearing this droning stack of self-righteous hypocrisy and pomposity talk about climate change while I pay $60 bucks to fill up my Honda Civic to get to work, I truly sick of it! In fact I now honestly believe that not only will Mr. Gore's silence remove a billion tones of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, annually, but it will also free up more fresh air for the productive use of scientists and other people, to come up with genuine solutions to climate change and improve our society.

When that is done, not only will the world be a cooler place, but a quieter and far less hypocritical one too!

Sincerely,
I.M. Ulysses