Wednesday 28th February 2007

by Jenny

Ok, so other than Mr. Gore wasting his own energy by his talking, it turns out, Al seems to be wasting our country’s energy as well. Despite his environmental rantings in An Inconvenient Truth, it seems that his monthly electrical bill is about $1,400. This amount of energy expended would power an average sized home for one year. An entire year! Wow!

If that’s not hypocritical…then what is?

You know, if Al did real research with unbiased scientists (or ones that were not on his payroll) and actually conserved energy, I might have more respect for him. This, however, just added to the joke that he already is. I mean, come on. He’s the guy that claims to have invented the internet!

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6 Responses to “Al Gore Wastes Energy”

  1. Postelwait says:
    March 5, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    Yo, I just put this up on yougotmoded.com, check out the moded queue and vote it up!

  2. Jenny says:
    March 5, 2007 at 1:11 pm

    The thing is, it’s fun to make fun of Al Gore. Just watch South Park. (I’m super, duper cereal.) :) One of the reasons I question his contribution is because I’ve met Al Gore, and he really doesn’t come across as any brighter than a low watt bulb. And that is a great segue into the point of my blog post – Gore may be a dim bulb, but he doesn’t use them.

  3. Dan says:
    March 5, 2007 at 11:39 am

    You focusing on the wrong part. I’m not trying to make some argument based on semantics. I’m just pointing out that the guy that did invent TCP/IP protocol acknowledges Al Gore’s significant contribution to the internet.His wording may be poorly chosen but the fact is that he was part of the creation of the internet.Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like Al Gore, I kinda think he’s a douche bag but there are plenty of other things to harp on him for than the whole internet thing. For instance his inflated pontificating style of presentation that seems to high light his hypocrisy.(which what you wrote about in this post)

  4. Jenny says:
    March 1, 2007 at 11:36 am

    So it appears Al Gore only claims to have “created” the internet, not “invented” it. Wow. So, to look up the definition of create, according to dictionary.com, it means “to evolve from one’s own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention.” So Mr. Gore didn’t “invent” the internet, he created it, or had it evolve from his own thought or imagination. My apologies to Mr. Gore – the internet was your idea, but you didn’t actually invent it. Nice one! I had no idea you were so brilliant! Ha!

  5. Dan says:
    February 28, 2007 at 5:38 pm

    From the Wikipedia entry on Al Gore

    As a result of the publication of three articles in Wired News[77], Gore’s 1999-03-09 interview on CNN’s Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer became the subject of heavy satire. [78] During this interview, Gore stated:

    During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. [79]

    Media reports surrounding this statement sometimes re-wrote it, stating that Gore claimed he “invented the internet”.[80] Gore received support from members of the computer industry, however, notably Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Robert E. Kahn. Cerf and Kahn issued the following statement on 2000-09-28 in response to the controversy:

    [A]s the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore’s contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time.
    Last year the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his role. He said: “During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” We don’t think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he “invented” the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore’s initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it is timely to offer our perspective

  6. Sam says:
    February 28, 2007 at 5:10 pm

    Al Gore doesn’t want to change, he wants everyone else to change. Duh!

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