Posted by
Catmman on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:57:25 AM
There is no, none, nada,
absolutely not a conflict of interest between Al Gore's 'global warming' hysterical advocacy and where he invests his money. The fact he is poised to become the worlds first '
Carbon Billionaire' is simply a coincidence.
Not only is Al Gore going to make hundreds of millions off of the Democrat’s cap-&-tax energy bill but one of Gore’s environmental groups and several green activists helped draft the legislation.
Commerce Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-California) used US
Climate Action Partnership’s (ASCAP) proposals as a blueprint for climate legislation. The Washington Times reported
that the sweeping climate bill includes a provision that benefits Duke
Energy Corp., a founding member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership
(USCAP), whose climate plan released in January the lawmakers have
frequently called a “blueprint” for their climate legislation. The Times continued:
At the kickoff to hearings last week on
the massive climate bill, Myron Ebell, climate and energy policy
director for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told lawmakers, “The
authors of the draft bill have invited the beneficiaries of what could
turn out to be the biggest transfer of wealth from consumers to special
interests in American history to write the rules for this legalized
plunder.”
Al Gore’s World Resources Institute is one of the founding members of USCAP, the organization that helped construct the bill. The former VP has also invested heavily in green businesses that will benefit greatly
by the liberals’ cap and trade plans. Gore is the founder and chairman
of Alliance for Climate Protection. You likely know the organization
through its branch Repower America. This group has bombarded the
airwaves with “We Can Solve It” ads that are pushing for cap and trade legislation.
Yep. No conflict of interest at all. Nothing to see here. Move along.
It's striking. When an oil company puts some money into studies debunking 'global warming' they're somehow biased towards their own conclusions and the scientists doing the studies are all of a sudden beholden to 'Big Oil'. When Al Gore does the same thing for the pro-warming side, he's simply being a prudent and wise investor with consideration only for Mother Gaia. In fact, Gore himself decries the fact that if he
didn't invest in all of these pro-warming activities, he'd be considered a hypocrite:
Manbearpig.