Earth Hour

So were you one of the "millions" who took part in Earth Hour last night? If you were, raise your hand......

Congratulations on being one of the "millions" who have mastered the art of symbolism over substance. Let me ask you a few questions to see how committed you really are to cutting greenhouse gasses. What temperature is your thermostat set at? Closer to 60 or closer to 70 degrees? How many lights are on in your house right now? In the rooms where the lights are on, is there anyone in that room or is it empty? Do you have a gas or electric lawn mower, or did you go back to an old-fashioned non-motorized mower? How hot and how long is YOUR daily shower? What do you personally give up in order to minimize your use of fossil fuels in your home? What do you do without?

If you are global warming icon Al Gore, the answer is not a thing!

Even during Earth Hour. President of the Tennessee Center For Policy Research Drew Johnson takes a Saturday drive by Al Gore’s during the time most environmentalists went dark:

I pulled up to Al’s house, located in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, at 8:48pm – right in the middle of Earth Hour. I found that the main spotlights that usually illuminate his 9,000 square foot mansion were dark, but several of the lights inside the house were on.

In fact, most of the windows were lit by the familiar blue-ish hue indicating that floor lamps and ceiling fixtures were off, but TV screens and computer monitors were hard at work. (In other words, his house looked the way most houses look about 1:45am when their inhabitants are distractedly watching “Cheaters” or “Chelsea Lately” reruns.)

The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore’s mansion.

I [kid] you not, my friends, the savior of the environment couldn’t be bothered to turn off the gaudy lights that show off his goofy trees.

Somehow this does not surprise me at all.

When the greedy enviro advocates decide to make the same kinds of sacrifices that they demand of every day Americans, well I might just be interested in what they have to say. In the meantime, I will be following the advise of Ed Begley Jr a little more closely. His ideas are certainly a heck of a lot more practical that anything that Al Gore has suggested.