Al Gore’s has “made a living peddling lies” about global warming that is hurting poor African-American households, according to black conservative activists.
“Isn’t it cute when someone who has made a living peddling lies about the weather lectures Americans about how they should live?” Stacy Washington, Project 21 Co-Chairman, said in a Thursday statement. “Actually, it isn’t. It’s not cute, it doesn’t make sense and it’s downright insulting.”
The National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives Project 21 claims that Gore is behaving hypocritically by attempting to restrict access to cheap energy with an environmental justification. Gore’s net worth has swelled to $200 million off of profits he has earned from global warming rhetoric, and he has used that wealth to consume far more electricity than the average American.
The group took offense to Gore’s repeated comparisons of the civil rights movement to modern environmentalism.
“Americans have every right to use all the energy they can afford — just like Al Gore does in a mansion you might be able to see from space at night because of its size and energy use,” Washington said. “Gore simply doesn’t practice what he preaches. His electricity use rivals over 21 American households combined. We should ignore his climate decrees until he starts walking the walk.”
Rich white people are naturally better able to afford expensive energy sources like solar panels or wind turbines as they have more disposable income. Yet the subsidies that end up paying for solar and wind are a cost on all sections of society and raise the price of power for everyone.
“Al Gore’s comments and actions hammer home the fact that climate change alarmists aren’t taking into account how much their pet project hurts African-Americans, other minorities, and low-income families,” Derrick Hollie, a member of Project 21 and the president of the Reaching America policy organization.
“Energy is the lifeblood of our society,” Hollie said. “Any increase in its cost disproportionately affects lower income groups. Green activists tend to ignore how their agenda affects energy poverty, which keeps disadvantaged populations poor through high energy prices and decreased economic opportunities.”
These subsidies also hurt the poor most because they tend to spend a higher proportion of their incomes on basic needs like energy. As essential goods like electricity become more expensive, the cost of producing goods and services that use electricity increases, effectively raising the price of almost everything. Green subsidies hurt the disproportionately African-American poor 1.4 to four times more than the rich, according to a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
For example, the Gore-endorsed Clean Power Plan (CPP) was estimated to raise the average annual electricity bill from 2.9 percent to 3.8 percent of average household income. However, since African-Americans tend to have lower than average household income, a study found the average black household in America will see its annual spending on electricity rise from 4.5 percent to 5.8 percent of income thanks to the CPP. Lower-income black Americans will bear an even larger burden and could spend up to 26 percent of their household income on electricity.
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Al Bore is a hypotcrite and a con-man selling his snake oil making junk science fake docmenties writting a putrid poem that liberal idiots,tree huggers and nature freaks like to read and hear
Here’s a beauty… “Black Like Al?”
http://www.salon.com/2000/07/14/gore_36/
Rich, considering Al’s family history.
It is reassuring to see leaders in the Black community calling out race baiters and climate con men who don’t really care about Americans that haven’t been born with a silver spoon in their mouth .
Gore is a massive hypocrite just like a lot of the preachy promoters of the global warming industry .
No doubt there are racists but the vast majority of citizens do not harbor ill will yet the elite use it as a way to divide and deflect attention from the failure to address the real social problems in
society . People have had enough of useless politicians who work for the well healed lobbyist’s that buy their lunch . Super pacs are the devil that undermine the democracy .
I tip my hat to those who are unafraid to say what everyone senses . At the very core of American values and character are
people who are kind and hard working . Don’t let the political
elite and lobbyist’s like Gore undermine those values with their selfish agenda and fear mongering . Gore has a brutal track record of predictions .
Gore really is a piece of work now isn’t he! It is so comical that all the funny people are trying to be serious on this that’s how funny they look! And they wonder why they are losing ratings!!! LMAO!!! Cause it doesn’t matter what face they put up there that promotes this crap, LOL, we know it is Bull Shit and it isn’t funny no matter how they try to spin it!!!!! Bottom Line!
A few years ago the Congress Of Racial Equality(CORE)went after the eco-wacko groups Rainforest Action Network(RAN)and accused them of lying to the kids(Which they were)about the South American Rainforests or THE AMAZON proof that these Eco-Wackos are liars looking to sucker some person into donating money to them just like with the HSUS their all fruads and hoaxers