Topic: al gore

This isn't really news but Global Warming and Internet Inventor Al Gore is demanding we be carbon free by 2018. Some people will say anything to get noticed. Well, I demand we be carbon free by 2017. My idea? Cars and Turbines. On cars: GM is adventuring with the public utilities to figure out how to set up a plug-in network for all of those upcoming Chevy Volt's it is going to...

Reportedly Obama is kicking around two names for his vice-presidential pick right about now. One is Evan Bayh. The other is Sam Nunn. These two names spark some more names he might want to consider. #1: Zell Miller. Hey! Paul Begala recommened Al Gore pick him in 2000. #2: Toby Keith. A registered Democrat who has publicly placed his politics as somewhere to the right of Willie Nelson's and...

... by Walter Brasch George W. Bush looked into the TV camera, Tuesday morning [July 15] and tried to assuage the fears of about 300 million Americans who believed they were in the middle of a Recession. ?The economy is growing,? said the President. ?Productivity is high,? he told us. ?Trade?s up. People are working,? he said. In the Bush White House, the ?R Word? is just a myth. Of course, the...veterans; slightly more than one-third of the homeless are children. In 1992, Bill Clinton and Al Gore campaigned against President Ge...

Last Thursday, Al Gore challenged the nation to get to 100% zero-carbon electricity by 2018. Today, we learn that Oregon and Washington are planning to quadruple our wind power. From The Oregonian: Utilities and independent developers are poised to more than quadruple the amount of wind power in the Northwest, a huge increase that underscores the region's push for renewable energy. "It's...

So says T. Boone Pickens in his new TV ad. Find more videos like this on PickensPlan I just saw this ad on TV (KGW 8) and am intrigued by it. What do you think of it? Have you joined the Pickens Plan Army yet? Do you plan to? If so, what are your primary reasons? Here's Pickens' Plan. The gist of it appears to be that he wants America to do as he has personally done and...not convinced that wind power offers as much as geothermal power does. Update: I just watched Al Gore on Meet The Press say that he we...

It occurred to me after I put up the Democratic truck that I'd just recently done a travelogue and interspersed truck and travelogue with a bit of McCain bashing and that new readers might find themselves saying, "what does this guy think he's doing?" Ok. I like to write and I like to write about what interests me and try to be interesting while doing it for your sake. (since the site meter...well here's a news flash - you can't steal 'em if they ain't close... (h/t to Mike - you know) Al Gore and John Kerry lost their electi...

(Hat Tip to Jeff Holmes)

Gore urges Congress not to give in... WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Al Gore urged Congress not to overturn a federal ban on offshore drilling and complained that lawmakers are "being stampeded by lobbyists for special interests" eager to lift the moratorium....

"We should tax what we burn, not what we earn." Al Gore is calling for Americans to end our reliance on fossil fuels and embrace greener sources of energy. His plan would include taxes on carbon dioxide production which he refers to in this sentence. Gore spoke at an energy conference today saying our future is at stake. Gore is using his unique position for the greater good. By being so...

Earlier today, Al Gore made a Kennedyesque challenge to Americans to completely abandon fossil-fuel-generated electricity by 2018.“The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk,” Mr. Gore said in a speech to an energy conference here. “The future of human civilization is at stake.” He said the goal of producing all of the nation’s...