(Image from Are We Lumberjacks? via Michelle Malkin)
This week we learned that Al and Tipper Gore live in a mansion five times the size of the average American home which, every year, uses the equivalent of ten times the amount of energy that is consumed by the average American home.
That's quite a "carbon footprint," especially for the man many consider to be the Moses of Gaia worship.
In his defense, Gore's handlers argued that he pays a monthly surcharge for electricity supposedly supplied by "green" power generation systems, and that he also pays additional money in "carbon offsets" which supports the planting of trees and research into alternative energy sources.
The Lumberjacks also note (in their new blog masthead) that this sort of behavior is the equivalent of pigging out at the dessert bar and then hiring someone else to diet for you.
And this isn't the first time that Gore has been caught with his environmental britches down: his interior redesign of the Vice President's mansion included rare old-growth hardwoods; his family trust owned a six-figure portfolio of Occidental Petrolem stock, and also controlled land that was used for a pollution-spewing zinc mine.
Of course this all raises a rather problematic question: as an annointed prophet for the religion of environmentalism, should we do as Gore commands, or follow the way he lives?
ADDED (and this is a biggie): Bill Hobbs reports that Gore is buying his carbon offsets from a company that he owns. He is buying them from himself, or rather he has invented a clever way of investing in his own company that circumvents the corporate books.
I think we need to examine that classic Robert Patterson footage of Bigfoot a little closer ...
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