Gore is a fraud, letter by Jim Greaves

So Mr. Gore purchases "offsets"? So what? He's only selling them to himself anyway! As the Chairman of his own company that may or may not actually be doing any research with the "offset contributions" he is PAYING HIMSELF we can only assume he thinks we are stupid!
That's like using local farmland for high density housing, and then buying "transfer of development rights", a process whereby destruction of local ag land is "offset" by preserving land "somewhere else" - land that is already preserved. Net gain? NONE. Net loss? All that land that is covered in concrete.
The Gore-o-philes actually have the gall to expect US to believe that their belief that they are doing something to lower the Gore's "footprint" to zero is actually causing a reversal of the Gore's footprint to zero, when IN FACT, all they have done is shift that footprint onto the REST of us. What a dumbo. What dumbos in this nation actually buy that crap? He deserved to lose in 2000. And it's a shame the Oscar folks can't spot a charlatan or recognize a sham when they see it, considering they spend so much money creating shows extolling those "virtues".
Shame on Al Gore and the morons who promote his sleight of hand as if he were doing something real, or of any value to anyone but himself. He is a fraud.
Jim Greaves

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt
the person doing it." -- Chinese Proverb
http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2007/03/01/another-inconvenient-truth/