A lot of money. As in, his net worth has increased fifty-fold, and that’s not a typo. Gateway Pundit revisits some commentary by Pro Patria about Al Gore’s relationship with Big Green (a good name, that):
So just what has Al Gore gained from his Big Green escapades? According to public disclosure information, Gore was worth somewhere between $1 million and $2 million in 2000. Not quite eight years later, Gore is estimated to be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million. While I ordinarily would applaud such financial gains from such a short period of time, I can’t help but to question just how it happened. When you look out at what Al Gore has done, it’s evident that he figured out on a way to capitalize on the creation of Big Green while becoming the official doomsday prophet that has helped to build Big Green into the monetary powerhouse that it has become.
That post is from 2007, and the number it mentions was also reported here and here (neither unsympathetically, which is the reason why they were chosen): Gateway Pundit is bringing it up again because Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) had some pointed questions to Mister Gore on his business relationships. Human Events had ten more, all of which should be asked by his supporters themselves, and none of which will be. Note that Blackburn did ask some of these questions; also note that Gore evaded them, complete with that patented “the fools denied my greatness! But I’ll show them! I’ll show them ALL!” smirk that he reserves for situations like this. I have to admit; if this is Gore’s revenge scenario for America it’s going well.
Now, I’m not an innocent here: there’s going to be money in “going Green.” A lot of money: it’s the latest fad, on a scale comparable to the tulip craze of a few centuries ago. But we crested this wave a year or so back, and if it’s all the same to everybody else I’d personally prefer that we not further enrich a bunch of cynical fearmongers quite so much before the eventual crash. If for no other reason than because we’re actually in a problematical economic state right now, and I don’t think that it’s a good idea to pursue policies that will result in more people having anxiety about whether the light and/or heat will come on when they flip the switch.
I mean, we’re not all in Al Gore’s shoes, here. He’s protected for anything less than complete societal breakdown. The rest of us aren’t that lucky.
Moe Lane
PS: And before you say the magic words “Google” and “Apple:” Google is actually a player in Big Green, and until Big Green’s acolytes stop buying Macs, Apple doesn’t have to be. Especially with Mister Gore on the board.
PPS: Have you paid your taxes, Al? In full? Hey, just asking: you’re a powerful Democrat, after all, so it’s a legitimate question these days.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
lol @ Taxes
rick554 Monday, April 27th at 9:07AM EDT (link)THAT woulda been my first question of Mister Albore if I had the chance. Kudos to Marsha Blackburn too. Standing up to a pompous fat ass like Gore took some guts , but then I think shes a gutsey Lady , and a cutie too!
Rick554
lol @ Taxes
rick554 Monday, April 27th at 9:07AM EDT (link)THAT woulda been my first question of Mister Albore if I had the chance. Kudos to Marsha Blackburn too. Standing up to a pompous fat ass like Gore took some guts , but then I think shes a gutsey Lady , and a cutie too!
Rick554
"Doing well by scaring children about the ice caps."
Steph C Monday, April 27th at 9:18AM EDT (link)Tip to parents: If you’re kids are having nightmares about melting ice caps, you can allay those fears by telling them not to worry about them because the terrorists will kill them first.
/sarcasm
I loved “the pose” when Blackburn delivered her zinger. You know what they say, those who yell loudest while avoiding a direct answer…
Of course, to the braindead left, he beat up on her. Al Gore, if he is as great as he says, could have done any number of things after losing the presidential elections. Instead, he went into scamming people, enriching himself at their expense in the left’s definition of capitalism.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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Carbon Off Set TAX
itdiehard Monday, April 27th at 10:06AM EDT (link)I hope he is the first to pay his 1000 million carbon off set tax for all that hot air he blows out his mouth and the tax him for extremely large carbon foot print he creates by flying corporate jets all over the world. What ever happen to video conference calls.
Algore is radioactive but too arrogant to know it
peg_c Monday, April 27th at 10:47AM EDT (link)It’s funny how even lefties can’t stand the guy. For myself, I am hoarding incandescent lightbulbs and our family tends to flush 2 - 3 times. Whatever he advocates, we go the other way. He’s a good tool that way.
As for the kids, I am starting to inculcate the evils of Algore, Obama and the rest to my 10 month old granddaughter (already a 3-time Tea Party veteran!). She’ll be well-armed against the Algore brainwashing in school in a few years. Her own webpage calls her a Conservative in the Making.
We all need to do this. Save the kids from the stupidity.
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
Burning Al
tedpomeroy Monday, April 27th at 11:37AM EDT (link)We gather in the desert by a giant ice sculpture of Al Gore.
Have teachins as to why our economy is in a shamples because of him and his insistence that President Clinton veto the ANWR bill in 1996.
We gather straw by the ice sculpture and set it ablaze.
Burning Al 2009 in Nevada be there!
Just stopping by to say Hello on my Save-the-Earth tour...
6eorge Jetson Monday, April 27th at 12:01PM EDT (link)Off to market the effort and then save some serious green!
Ummm…Who Threw Stuff Out?
55555! nt
Rod_Patrick Monday, April 27th at 10:40PM EDT (link)She wasn't nearly tough enough on his manbearpigness
LJ "Beaglescout" Miller Monday, April 27th at 1:24PM EDT (link)Those questions from Human Events are good ones and he should have had to answer every one in detail, however much he squirmed, because it would have exposed to everyone in the world exactly what a charlatan he is. He’s a salesman for carbon credits and he’s been making millions and millions of dollars for it. Instead of paying taxes on it like an honest businessman would do, he puts his money into a tax shelter where he gets to do anything he wants with it. He’s putting the money in. He’s the head of the board. And he’s the prime beneficiary of the trust. It’s a TAX SHELTER and that’s all it is!
“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”
Al Gore's Kleiner Perkins also invested in ethanol
katesmith Monday, April 27th at 8:57PM EDT (link)The prices for ethanol have tanked along with oil prices. Also it damages engines esp. in cold temperatures. It was reported in Dec. the ethanol industry is seeking a bailout. The Renewable Fuel assn. lobbies on their behalf. Several ethanol companies have gone bankrupt. Kleiner’s Altra fuels has closed several big plants. The entire industry is a tax scam.
Airlines to require passengers to void bowels before flights in bid to reduce CO2
orwell2112 Monday, April 27th at 10:04PM EDT (link)http://wineandexcrement.com/airlines-to-require-passengers-to-void-bowels-before-flights-in-bid-to-reduce-co2/1286/
WASHINGTON – The Air Transport Association (ATA), which represents leading U.S. airlines, announced today that its membership had reached a binding consensus on a controversial new way to combat C02 emissions – a forced reduction in passenger weight through mandatory pre-flight bowel movements …