As the secular progressive equivalent of the old Catholic Church practice of allowing wealthy Christians to purchase indulgences for the sins that would land peasants in hell, rich environmentalist leftists like Al Gore purchase "carbon emission offsets" that allow them to excuse their extravagant lifestyles that they would deny to the rest of us.
A day after a film about his efforts to combat global warming won an Oscar, former Vice President Al Gore was called a hypocrite by a Tennessee group that said his Belle Meade home is consuming too much energy.The home's average monthly electric bill last year was just under $1,200, according to bills that The Tennessean acquired from Nashville Electric Service.
Gore's mansion is consuming more than 20 times the national average electricity and natural gas. I personally don't care how much energy he uses, as long as he pays for it, but I'm getting sick and tired of being lectured by the left that we need to conserve and reduce energy use for the sake of the environment. Al Gore is a multimillionaire, and in addition to being able to afford a gigantic mansion he can also afford to buy "carbon emission offsets" to make him feel all warm and fuzzy inside. His advise that we all go and do likewise is infuriating, because some of us have to work for a living and haven't had the opportunity to build up a loony cult to fly us around the world giving lectures for hundreds of thousands of dollars a pop.
Gore said he also buys carbon offsets: a service that tries to reduce the total carbon emissions of individuals or organizations indirectly."What Mr. Gore has asked is that every family calculate their carbon footprint and try to reduce it as much as possible," Gore's office said, according to Thinkprogress.org. "Once they have done so, he then advocates that they purchase offsets, as the Gores do, to bring their footprint down to zero."
Oh well let me just ratchet up my energy bill by 50% a month to buy "green power"! I've got all the respect in the world for people who come by their wealth honestly; they can spend it however they want, and if "carbon emission offsets" make them feel good then fine. Al Gore, however, isn't an honest businessman. He has set himself up as the high priest of a godless, misanthropic religion whose main goal is to thin the herd of humanity and cast us back into the stone age.
I won't buy Al Gore's indulgences, and his ignorance of middle-class Americans is astounding. For whatever flaws the Christians and the political right may have, at least we proclaim that the same standards apply to everyone. Al Gore and his monstrous environmentalist ilk are the worst sort of hypocrites, modern-day Pharisees.
Luke 11:43-46[Jesus said,] "Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.
"Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without knowing it."
One of the experts in the law answered him, "Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us also."
Jesus replied, "And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them."
Update:
My wife tells me that Bill O'Reilly's radio show today was exactly the same as this post. Ergo: someone should give me a radio show.
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