Former Vice President Al Gore was caught using a gas-powered vehicle to leave a media event in Washington, D.C., after telling reporters Congress should remove oil companies’ license to operate.
Congress should absolutely pursue investigations against oil companies like ExxonMobil to prevent them from using “our skies as open sewers,” Gore told Axios co-founder Mike Allen. The former VP left the D.C. event in a Lincoln sedan shortly thereafter, perhaps on his way to the airport.
“Exxon has known for a long time” about what its products do to the environment, Gore said, before calling the Texas-based oil company “deeply unethical and immoral” for allegedly hiding information about climate change from investors.
He also suggested a slew of attorneys general-led probes against Exxon might be the most effective way to hold energy producers accountable.
The undue influence of “big money” in politics was the reason for the environmentalist movement’s recent stumbles, Gore argued. Interest groups representing fossil fuel companies are holding back the climate campaign, he told the audience.
@algore lectures D.C. audience about removing oil companies’ license to operate. Then leaps in a gas-powered Lincoln and splits the scene #axios360 pic.twitter.com/RqRjbvpDjS
— Christopher D. White (@ZanderKelly30) April 24, 2018
The Daily Caller News Foundation attended the Tuesday event, which was part of a new discussion panel Axios is promoting called “News Shapers.” The vehicle Gore used could be a hybrid, which uses a combination of gas combustion and electric motors to power the motor.
Hybrids are moderately better than other forms of transportation Gore has depended on the past. He was caught in a similar situation in January 2017, for instance, when a source at website Climate Depot caught him on camera exiting a building in Utah and entering a Chevy Suburban LT.
The SUV could have been a “flew fuel” vehicle, which uses several types of fuel, like ethanol. Still, ethanol’s carbon footprint isn’t much better than gasoline’s when the entire production process is taken into account.
Gore was leaving a Sundance film festival debuting the sequel to his 2006 environmental catastrophe film “An Inconvenient Truth.”
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If Al Bore realy wants to Go Green he should start living in a grass hut drive a foot powered car like The Flintstones an Gilligans Island live asa hermit and wear leaves
Yes Exxon knew alright . They have known for some time now that they sell highly desirable fossil fuel products that are instrumental in producing the highest standard of living in the planets history .
Al Gore has benefitted tremendously from his personal use of fossil fuel products each day .
Yeah the car he used ain’t no 64 Cricket automatic or even a Priuss . Neither come stock with plated armour .
The constraint and punishing cost increases to energy as a result of the scary global warming con game have however resulted
tens of thousands of avoidable fuel poverty deaths . When did Al Gore know that was the consequence of policies he promotes along with the “clean energy ” corporate rent seekers ?
Chasing Exxon is a slight of hand distraction that actually exceeds the democrats Russian Collusion Delusion being foisted on
the world to hide the exposed misdeeds of a corrupt 5 estate and
disintegrating Democrat party .
A Prius couldn’t haul that pile of gluttony in one trip.
The Gore medicine show continues to roll from town to town–
“It was really vile weather
When we got tarred and feathered
You could hear the six guns sound
As they chased us out of town”
Most of us don’t want what you’re selling Mr Gore.