Boing! Boing! Gadgets has an interesting post/discussion about Al Gore’s energy use. Gore lives in a mansion and a conservative Tennessee group reported yesterday that last year Gore burned through 213,210 kilowatt hours of electricty. Which isn’t so bad . . . unless you’re the global point person on the need for people to change their lifestyles to thwart global warming.
Personally, I think there’s an opportunity here for a “No More Than Gore” campaign to see if Gore is willing to put his energy use where his rhetoric is. People would sign on and pledge to reduce their energy use to “No More Than Gore.” But there would also be incentive for Gore, since he could show up his conservative critics by actually practicing what he preaches . . . if Al Gore can get get his energy consumption down to, say, half the current average for American households, then anybody can do it.
Come on, Al, this is a teachable moment.