07-18-2008, 12:33 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Userid: 445 Location: South Carolina
Age: 32
Posts: 1,083
Rep Power: 2
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Al Gore reminds us that we're all going to die while he jets around the world polluting more than most human beings on the planet.
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His solution was to do away with all carbon-emitting forms of electricity production in the U.S. within 10 years, replacing them with alternatives such as solar, wind and geothermal power, conservation and so-called clean-coal technology in which all carbon emissions from the burning of coal are captured and stored. It is a bold, and some say, unrealistic goal given the tremendous cost and the nation's fractious politics.
The Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan group Gore leads, put the 30-year cost of his plan – both government and private – at $1.5trillion to $3 trillion.
Gore admitted his plan would, at least initially, drive energy prices higher. But he proposed a payroll tax cut to offset higher prices for fuel and electricity.
Charlotte Observer
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