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Wow, I would really like to order one of these. It's the first turbine I've seen that looks nice. The $48,000 price tag is a bit much though
From Washington correspondent and Friend of The Plaza Bill Theobald: U.S. Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma asked Gore to pledge to reduce his personal home energy to the national average within a year. That was in reaction to reports of Gore’s large utility bill at his Nashville home. Gore responded that he lives a “carbon neutral life” by buying carbon offsets to compensate for his energy use. Inhoffe called the offsets “gimmicks” used by the wealthy. Inhofe tried to cut off Gore several times as the former vice president gave expansive answers. “I want to talk to you a minute,” Committee Chair Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., told Inhofe. ” Would you let him answer the question?”
Anyway, Gore refused to take the pledge. I mean, we can't ask him to change his life can we??> Gore Refuses to Take Personal Energy Ethics Pledge
It has been reported that many of these so-called carbon offset projects would have been done anyway. Also, carbon offset projects such as planting trees can take decades or even a century to sequester the carbon emitted today. So energy usage today results in greenhouse gases remaining in the atmosphere for decades, even with the purchase of so-called carbon offsets. “There are hundreds of thousands of people who adore you and would follow your example by reducing their energy usage if you did. Don’t give us the run-around on carbon offsets or the gimmicks the wealthy do,” Senator Inhofe told Gore.
But the answer may not matter because House Democrats have decided to lard the supplemental appropriations bill with billions in pork to sell their troop-withdrawal gimmicks. "Included in the legislation," reported the Washington Post, "is a lot of money to help win support. The price tag exceeds the president's war request by $24 billion." That number includes giveaways for spinach farmers and money for peanut storage. Back when Democrats were in the minority, they would have denounced this as piggy-backing pork on the troops.Wow, $24 billion in Pork, that seems a bit um....excessive?