[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 42 (Monday, March 12, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H2406]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                AL GORE

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, our former Vice President, Al Gore, hasn't 
gotten so much attention since he invented the Internet.
  But behind the Oscars, behind the left's unending praise, behind the 
fawning media coverage lies the truth. And, unfortunately, that truth 
is pretty inconvenient.
  It seems that one of the biggest violators of Gore's own 
environmental doctrines is Al Gore himself. While he jets around on the 
global warming celebrity circuit telling everyone else how to live a 
greener life, his own home in Tennessee is consuming nearly 20 times 
the energy of the average American home.
  Gore defends this conspicuous consumption by purchasing carbon 
emission offsets. But he buys those offsets from a company he helped 
create and he currently chairs.
  Mr. Speaker, global warming may or may not be an inconvenient truth. 
But apparently for Al Gore, practicing what you preach is the most 
inconvenient thing of all.

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