{"id":3212,"date":"2007-02-28T10:02:25","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T17:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/28\/al-gore-is-a-hypocrit-because-he-lives-in-a-mansion\/"},"modified":"2007-02-28T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T17:02:25","slug":"al-gore-is-a-hypocrit-because-he-lives-in-a-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3212","title":{"rendered":"Al Gore Is A Hypocrit Because He Lives In A Mansion?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of blogging about Al Gore’s electricity, today. In a fairly typical example, Brian Doherty at Hit and Run<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

…Gore’s whole deal is that civilization-saving absolutely and vitally requires an action on everyone’s part that he seems to refuse to do himself…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I understand it, most of the changes that Gore calls for are more global than individual in nature<\/a>. But in his own life, Gore attempts to lower his carbon usage<\/a> — for instance, by driving a hybrid car, purchasing “green power,” and flying on commercial airlines when he can — and then buys carbon offsets to make up for the rest.<\/p>\n

So that’s that Gore does himself. Now, what actions does Gore suggest everyone else take? Note the big lettering behind Gore in this screencap:<\/p>\n

\"Al<\/p>\n

You can watch the full video here<\/a>. Doherty’s accusation of hypocrisy appears unfounded; Gore isn’t asking more of the rest of us than he’s doing himself.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Gristmill post<\/a> I already linked to, which is excellent, Jim Henley<\/a> and The Anonymous Liberal<\/a> have good posts on this faux-controversy (or should I say FOX-controversy?). Curtsy to Robert Hayes<\/a>, whose ad hom<\/em> attack on Gore alerted me to this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lot of blogging about Al Gore’s electricity, today. In a fairly typical example, Brian Doherty at Hit and Run writes: …Gore’s whole deal is that civilization-saving absolutely and vitally requires an action on everyone’s part that he seems to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}