http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/business/energy-environment/03gore.html
Former Vice President Al Gore suspicion he had speckled the leader final year when the tiny California organisation sought financing for an energy-saving record from the try collateral organisation where Mr. Gore is the partner.
Former Vice President Al Gore, who has turn the vital voice around the universe upon the emanate of meridian change, spoke final month during the forum in Dubai.
The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware as well as program to have the physical phenomenon grid some-more efficient. It came to Mr. Gore’s firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the single of Silicon Valley’s tip try collateral providers, looking for $75 million to enhance the partnerships with utilities looking to implement millions of supposed intelligent meters in homes as well as businesses.
Mr. Gore as well as his partners motionless to behind the company, as well as in thankfulness Silver Spring defended him as well as John Doerr, an additional Kleiner Perkins partner, as delinquent corporate advisers.
The understanding appeared to compensate off in the large approach final week, when the Energy Department voiced $3.4 billion in intelligent grid grants. Of the total, some-more than $560 million went to utilities with that Silver Spring has contracts. Kleiner Perkins as well as the partners, together with Mr. Gore, could replenish their investment most times over in entrance years.
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Gore is just another corrupt politician who is trying to make a buck.
Real energy activists don’t demand a fortune. You can be one of them by recycling and doing your part at home, like I do.
I’ve never understood this approach to the question of global climate change. People like you focus your attacks on Al Gore, a man who is neither a scientist nor in any way associated with the study of global climate change. Yet, because he’s the most visible proponent of changes as a result of the theory, people like you target and attack him, and then act like having brought him down brings down the whole theory. Trouble is, this is science. The science has something called “evidence” which supports it. If you don’t want to attack the evidence directly, then don’t make claims about global climate change in general. Attack Al Gore if you want, I don’t care.
He’s a former politician. Claiming to care about people while actually lining his own pockets is what they do.
Why do conservatives have such a problem with Al Gore making money considering their dedication to capitalistic principles and the fact that Al Gore isn’t a public servant anymore?
Al Gore is a huge hypocrite. He bitches and moans about global warming yet flies around in his private jet and lives in houses that suck up energy like no ones business. I don’t put much into what that fool has to say. He is just a politician out to make money!
Gore just built ANOTHER 9 Million Dollar House.
With Obama’s help, Al Gore, Inc is going to Make Billions of Dollars in the next few years.
Guess where those Billions are coming from…………
TAXPAYERS, eh?
How cool is that, Democrats?
PLEASE READ, those of you who said Al Gore has a private jet.
Description of Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
This fallacy is committed when it is concluded that a person’s claim is false because 1) it is inconsistent with something else a person has said or 2) what a person says is inconsistent with her actions. This type of “argument” has the following form:
Person A makes claim X.
Person B asserts that A’s actions or past claims are inconsistent with the truth of claim X.
Therefore X is false.
The fact that a person makes inconsistent claims does not make any particular claim he makes false (although of any pair of inconsistent claims only one can be true – but both can be false). Also, the fact that a person’s claims are not consistent with his actions might indicate that the person is a hypocrite but this does not prove his claims are false.
Examples of Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
Bill: “Smoking is very unhealthy and leads to all sorts of problems. So take my advice and never start.”
Jill: “Well, I certainly don’t want to get cancer.”
Bill: “I’m going to get a smoke. Want to join me Dave?”
Jill: “Well, I guess smoking can’t be that bad. After all, Bill smokes.”
Great question, you will find the ultimate answer in number 32 of the link below…
http://www.rense.com/general32/americ.htm
this is the chartered course of Obama, although several have already been accomplished by others , before Obama,he is determined to complete the list**************************************************************
Because like Global warming Al Gore is a fraud