Gore's 'carbon offsets' paid to firm in which he is a chairman

[michaels]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54528

Al Gore defends his extraordinary personal energy usage by telling critics he maintains a "carbon neutral" lifestyle by buying "carbon offsets," but the company that receives his payments turns out to be partly owned and chaired by the former vice president himself.

Gore has built a "green money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including himself, but he set it up so that the average Joe can't afford to play on Gore's terms," writes blogger Dan Riehl.

Gore has described the lifestyle he and his wife Tipper live as "carbon neutral," meaning he tries to offset any energy usage, including plane flights and car trips, by "purchasing verifiable reductions in CO2 elsewhere."

But it turns out he pays for his extra-large carbon footprint through Generation Investment Management, a London-based company with offices in Washington, D.C., for which he serves as chairman. The company was established to take financial advantage of new technologies and solutions related to combating "global warming," reports blogger Bill Hobbs.

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Generation Investment Management's U.S. branch is headed by a former Gore staffer and fund-raiser, Peter S. Knight, who once was the target of probes by the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice.

Hobbs points out Gore stands to make a lot of money from his promotion of the alleged "global warming" threat, which is disputed by many mainstream scientists.

"In other words, he 'buys' his 'carbon offsets' from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself," Hobbs writes. "To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy 'carbon offsets' through Generation Investment Management ? he buys stocks."

As WND reported, Gore, whose film warning of a coming cataclysm due to man-made "global warming" won two Oscars, has a mansion in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville that consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, citing data from the Nashville Electric Service.

The think tanks says since the release of Gore's film, the former presidential candidate's energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kilowatt-hours per month in 2005, to 18,400 per month in 2006.

Ughh this guy makes my stomach turn.

 

[IronWing]

World Net Daily again, sigh. BTW, Gore isn't running for anything.

 

[michaels]

Ok let me get this straight, the same people who instantly deem it as always unreliable somehow overlook the NUMEROUS shady workings fro the NYT and other major outlets...mmmm

 

[UberNeuman]

Maybe you can help me, michaels.... I've been searching on this board for your outrage over Dick Cheney's profiting from Halliburton due to the Iraq war, and have searched the WDN as well - and i couldn't find those links... Could you point me to those links, thankx.....

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: UberNeuman
Maybe you can help me, michaels.... I've been searching on this board for your outrage over Dick Cheney's profiting from Halliburton due to the Iraq war, and have searched the WDN as well - and i couldn't find those links... Could you point me to those links, thankx.....

Well it would not be hard to find the link about cheney putting all of his money into a blind trust after he got elected. OF course the truth is not very interesting....

 

[michaels]

That's old news everyone knows. Believe me I am no Bush-bot, I am disgusted by them as well. I am not a blind tool for either side like a majority who blindly defend both sides here and elsewhere. Oh and AT's search sucks.

 

[Slick5150]

Umm.. Well if you were part owner of a company in a particular sector, wouldn't you choose to use it over a competitor as well? I'm not exactly following why this is even remotely newsworthy.

 

[Craig234]

There's nothing scandalous about Gore paying for offsets to the company he runs for that.

People are such simpletons sometimes - they can't distinguish a private citizen voluntarily buying something without any conflict of interest, and government officials with ulterior motives in where they spend taxpayer money, with potential scandal.

It's like calling it a scandal if Richard Branson gave away CD's that he bought from his own company, Virgin Records, and pays to fly on his own airline.

*What* is wrong with Gore spending the money at his company Michaels? And *he* makes *you* sick?

 

[ntdz]

Originally posted by: Slick5150
Umm.. Well if you were part owner of a company in a particular sector, wouldn't you choose to use it over a competitor as well? I'm not exactly following why this is even remotely newsworthy.

Halliburton doesn't have any competitors for the type of work they do. They were the only choice. Should Cheney be profiting from a war? Fvck no, but I thought he sold all his shares of Halliburton before he took office.

 

[Jhhnn]

So, uhh, I suppose repubs are trying to represent this as something like Cheney sending huge no-bid contracts to Halliburton... maybe like the RNC acting as a money laundry service for Tom Delay's Texas Repubs... when it's not, at all.

Come back when you've got something that's not hyperbole, something like credible allegations that Gore's firm isn't doing business legitimately...

 

[Jhhnn]

Halliburton doesn't have any competitors for the type of work they do. They were the only choice. Should Cheney be profiting from a war? Fvck no, but I thought he sold all his shares of Halliburton before he took office.

Hogwash. Bechtel is one, and there are several others-

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11525

Schlumberger and Technip are their other two biggest competitors...

 

[fskimospy]

Are you people insane?

If you owned a car company... would you buy a car from one of your competitors? Or would you "buy one from yourself"? He would be a moron not to do what he's doing.

What I would really like to hear is ONE reason why Gore should use ANY OTHER COMPANY but his own? Look at Gore's evil trickery! Patronizing companies he holds a stake in! Like was said above... you realize he's not in government anymore right? That the money he spends is his own? That conflict of interest is not possible in this case?

Just checking.

 

[Slick5150]

Originally posted by: ntdz

Originally posted by: Slick5150
Umm.. Well if you were part owner of a company in a particular sector, wouldn't you choose to use it over a competitor as well? I'm not exactly following why this is even remotely newsworthy.

Halliburton doesn't have any competitors for the type of work they do. They were the only choice. Should Cheney be profiting from a war? Fvck no, but I thought he sold all his shares of Halliburton before he took office.

I was talking about Gore there buddy.

 

[daveymark]

right on cue, the algore apologists come out of the woodwork

 

[theeedude]

Originally posted by: daveymark
right on cue, the algore apologists come out of the woodwork

Except there is nothing to apologize for. WND can bash Gore all day, but only a moron would suggest Gore is profiting by buying something from a company on which he is chairman, since it's his money that is going in to begin with.

 

[Rangoric]

I have a better question.

Why shouldn't he use his own company for it?

Why is using his own company bad?

Really. I want to knnow.

 

[theeedude]

Originally posted by: Rangoric
I have a better question.

Why shouldn't he use his own company for it?

Why is using his own company bad?

Really. I want to knnow.

Because WND implied it's bad, so it must be bad. It's Gore's evil plan to make money off the unsuspecting ... himself. :roll:

 

[Tab]

Originally posted by: ntdz

Originally posted by: Slick5150
Umm.. Well if you were part owner of a company in a particular sector, wouldn't you choose to use it over a competitor as well? I'm not exactly following why this is even remotely newsworthy.

Halliburton doesn't have any competitors for the type of work they do. They were the only choice. Should Cheney be profiting from a war? Fvck no, but I thought he sold all his shares of Halliburton before he took office.

Yes, there are. I think the original Bush Administration or Clinton gave out no-bid contracts to Haliburton.

 

[Jaskalas]

Originally posted by: michaels
Ok let me get this straight, the same people who instantly deem it as always unreliable somehow overlook the NUMEROUS shady workings fro the NYT and other major outlets...mmmm

Facts and truth are in the eye of the beholder. Those who control the information control reality, and thus it is very powerful to demean and banish opposing publications while praising ones own dogma.

 

[daniel49]

i posted this several days ago (from a different source) and it was moved to the Al huge footprint gore thread.

 

[SViscusi]

So after the original smear didn't take hold and was easily debunked the rightwing nutjobs have come up with a new one? What's next, is Newsmax going to report that Gore had bean for dinner and that the resulting flatulence is a major cause of global warming?

 

[sandorski]

Find out if the Company accomplishes what they claim. If they don't, there might be a story here.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: michaels
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54528

Al Gore defends his extraordinary personal energy usage by telling critics he maintains a "carbon neutral" lifestyle by buying "carbon offsets," but the company that receives his payments turns out to be partly owned and chaired by the former vice president himself.

Gore has built a "green money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including himself, but he set it up so that the average Joe can't afford to play on Gore's terms," writes blogger Dan Riehl.

Gore has described the lifestyle he and his wife Tipper live as "carbon neutral," meaning he tries to offset any energy usage, including plane flights and car trips, by "purchasing verifiable reductions in CO2 elsewhere."

But it turns out he pays for his extra-large carbon footprint through Generation Investment Management, a London-based company with offices in Washington, D.C., for which he serves as chairman. The company was established to take financial advantage of new technologies and solutions related to combating "global warming," reports blogger Bill Hobbs.

(Story continues below)

Generation Investment Management's U.S. branch is headed by a former Gore staffer and fund-raiser, Peter S. Knight, who once was the target of probes by the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice.

Hobbs points out Gore stands to make a lot of money from his promotion of the alleged "global warming" threat, which is disputed by many mainstream scientists.

"In other words, he 'buys' his 'carbon offsets' from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself," Hobbs writes. "To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy 'carbon offsets' through Generation Investment Management ? he buys stocks."

As WND reported, Gore, whose film warning of a coming cataclysm due to man-made "global warming" won two Oscars, has a mansion in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville that consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, citing data from the Nashville Electric Service.

The think tanks says since the release of Gore's film, the former presidential candidate's energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kilowatt-hours per month in 2005, to 18,400 per month in 2006.

Ughh this guy makes my stomach turn.

LOL, you Freepers are funny

 

[imported_Shivetya]

Carbon Offsets == How the Rich pay for their guilt.



GORE is a fake.


He's one of the problems! He consumes more resources than nearly 30 other families combined and he thinks he can just buy his way out? F him

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: michaels
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54528

Al Gore defends his extraordinary personal energy usage by telling critics he maintains a "carbon neutral" lifestyle by buying "carbon offsets," but the company that receives his payments turns out to be partly owned and chaired by the former vice president himself.

Gore has built a "green money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including himself, but he set it up so that the average Joe can't afford to play on Gore's terms," writes blogger Dan Riehl.

Ughh this guy makes my stomach turn.

LOL, you Freepers are funny

Yes they are.

Amazing how nothing Bush does to destroy America and the world doesn't make his stomach turn.