DADvocate

Yesterday I wrote about limousine liberals. On cue USA Today publishes this article "Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe" today. (Hat tip to Drudgereport.) The article points several instances of the liberal limousine approach.

Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.)

The use of energy to build and maintain those homes most likely contributes to the greenhouse gases that Gore so fears. Nothing like excess.

Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.

George may be more "green" than Al although you can be sure Al is green with envy.

Humanity might be "sitting on a ticking time bomb," but Gore's home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River.

Polluting for profit, just like all those big, bad corporations supposedly do.

Gore's lack of real commitment to the cause he "champions" has been noted before by SFGate.com nearly six years ago.

The sad fact is that if Al Gore doesn't believe in his own signature cause, then he probably doesn't believe in anything.

aup has some thoughts on this at just muttering.

He generally bores me more than he annoys me, so I wasn't going to say anything, but hypocrisy kind of ruins credibility.

Amen.