Former Vice President Al Gore believes the Green New Deal (GND) could be a winning issue for Democrats in 2020.
The GND is a “broad brushstroke, bold proclamation, the details of which are designed to be filled in later,” Gore told Politico Friday.
He believes Democratic candidates should use the legislation to help generate enthusiasm before next year’s election, Politico reported.
Gore also suggested that Republicans are flipping on climate change. “We’re not that far away from a restoration of bipartisan support, particularly since Mother Nature is getting everybody’s attention with these fires and floods and hurricanes,” he told reporters.
Republicans in the Senate torpedoed the activist-backed legislation in March as Democrats called the vote a dog-and-pony show.
The GOP defeated the proposal 57-0; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called the bill a socialistic ploy designed to kill the economy.
The resolution, introduced in February by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, called for “10-year national mobilizations” toward addressing climate change.
A fact sheet published alongside the proposal claimed the plan would “mobilize every aspect of American society on a scale not seen since World War 2.”
The GND would reportedly phase out fossil fuel usage within 12 years, but could cost tens of trillions of dollars, some reports show.
Americans could be forced to pay up to $93 trillion to implement the proposal over a decade, the conservative-leaning American Action Forum (AAF) noted in a study in February.
Critics claim that the number is exaggerated as the proposal is still in the preliminary stages.
Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Cory Booker of New Jersey, both of whom are running for president, for instance, signed on as Senate co-sponsors of the proposal before it met its demise in the Senate.
Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, another 2020 candidate, introduced a different version of the GND in November.
The new version calls for a $180 billion investment to retrofit public housing to eliminate all carbon emissions.
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We hope that they do because the Dems would lose even bigger than they will otherwise. No need to count hanging chads or other made-up voting problems to see that they lost again.
” the details of which are designed to be filled in later”
Sure.
Vote for us now, we’ll tell you later how we will screw you..
You have to pass the Green New Deal to see what’s in it.
You can just tell Mr Hot Air Hypocrite he can go and take up living in a grass hut and eat nuts and berries i am not going vegan over this Climate Change scam
Yea, I am all for that. Let them run on “Green New Deal” and nail the last nail in the democrat/fascist party coffin.
Al Gore would be doing us all a nice big favor if he duct taped his mouth and cut all all that Hot-Air him and DiCaprio could do it together
Retrofitting public housing to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions? That’s what killed all those poor blighters in the Grenfell tower fire in England. Bureaucrats run amok.
I never thought I would agree with Al Gore but I certainly think that the Democrats should run on the Green New Deal platform. That is because as usual Al Gore is wrong, this is very much a losing issue. All the Republicans have to do is show the math. There are approximately 327 million people in the US with an average of 2.5 persons per household. The cost of $93 trillion over ten years works out to $71,101 per household per year. Also consider that the 327 million people include the homeless and those on very low incomes and the retired on fixed incomes. The average family would have to pay even more to makes up for these people. Nothing even close to this is feasible.
Phasing out all fossil fuels in 12 years translates into no gasoline being sold. That in itself is enough to make most vote Republican. There would be also be no air travel, no fishing fleet, and no fuel to run the famers’ combines. Most homes would probably only have power for a few hours a day.
The collapse of the Soviet Union left the USA as the world’s one and only super power. European countries huddled, decided to unite in defence against American dominance. The GND has much in common with the EU’s war against fossil fuels. Call the GND a Trojan Horse from Brussels that failed to get through the gates.
The climate conference in Madrid is over and achieved nothing. American delegates are being blamed for undermining COP25.
Kyoto, Paris, they got kicked to the scrapyard at the end of the road , like Trabants and Ladas.
Gore makes big bucks by selling his Snake Oil to those gullible enough to beleive his load of Malarkey and recite or listen to his idiotic poem.There is a book titled THE GORERAX its a parody of THE LORAX with Gore and its by Dr Truth
Man bear pig is still crusading? I hear his last cinematic outing was a big fat flop. My guess is the GND would flop even worse if used as an electoral issue.