Al Gore Loses Mind, Film at 11

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Politics aside, this quote from former vice president Al Gore is truly classic, and one of the funniest things I’ve heard all week:Dateline Hollywood » Blog Archive » AL GORE CONDEMNS ‘CARS’ FOR PROMOTING GLOBAL WARMING

Since “An Inconvenient Truth” grossed $365,000 over Memorial Day weekend at just four theaters, Gore has immediately become a power player in Hollywood. The former Vice President has chosen to use his influence to condemn “Cars” and call on Disney to not release the film.

“What kind of a message does it send to our children to teach them that cars, which account for 38.2348% of the past century’s global warming, are heroes?” he said at a press conference outside the Disney lot in Glendale. “I call on the Walt Disney company to either re-animate this film so that the cars are all villains, or to recall all prints and instead fill the 3,984 theaters set to play ‘Cars’ with a more socially responsible movie. Perhaps a documentary about global warming that USA Today called ‘illuminating, fascinating, and sometimes frightening.’”

9 Responses to “Al Gore Loses Mind, Film at 11”

1. Cary Says:
   June 3rd, 2006 at 11:14 am

   hehe… yeah, and I loved their article on the “impending explosion of Jim Cramer’s head.”

   

2. Hawaii SEO Says:
   June 4th, 2006 at 6:32 pm

   Wow… It’s rare for you to post something off the topic of search like this.

   This is actually an interesting topic for me. I’m not political but I am cheap. (Very cheap) I have a small TV, I wear cheap clothes, I look for cheap web hosting, and I eat cheap food.

   Basically… If I can survive somehow without it, I usualy don’t buy it to begin with. I realize that I am a weirdo. But…

   I never owned a car until I was 36. I only purchased a car at that time because we had a child and was basically forced to.

   Now do the math…

   How long have you been driving a car?
   How much did you spend per year on:

   The car / car payment
   The gas
   The repairs / maintenance
   The insurance

   Multiply this number by the 30 years that I have been riding a bicycle. If you want to drive yourself crazy… Figure how much money you would have if you had invested the money into a mutual fund for 30 years. You’d be well on your way to being a millionaire.

   The fact that I never had a car didn’t prevent me getting and keeping a drivers license, traveling to nearly every state in the country, getting and keeping girlfriends or jobs, etc, etc.

   Almost all my friends from High School have at least one DUI. I am the only person I know with a perfect driving record. ;^)

   The tiny car I have now gets great mileage and I got it used for a great price. The insurance is bundled with my home owner policy. My perfect driving record, etc, keeps it all super cheap.

   I hate cars. As soon as my kid is old enough to ride a bicycle, I’m getting rid of it. The “exorcise” (deliberate play on words) will do both of us some good.

   I live on Oahu. It’s illegal to drive on the beach. This is a small island and it’s highly developed. We have almost zero off-road opportunities. We also have almost zero severe weather and no actual “Need” for a person to own a 4WD vehicle. But that doesn’t stop people from purchasing them in large numbers.

   I moved here from Colorado where there is a real and practical need for 4WD. However… I see more 4WD vehicles and monster truck wan-bees on the road in Honolulu than I did in Denver!?

   Just my personal opinion and observation here…
   The bigger the tires… The smaller the brain.

3. Michael Gray Says:
   June 4th, 2006 at 8:34 pm

   I’ll own up to driving an SUV. Although I don’t do any off-road driving, I do go over the occasional curb, parking bump, or other low obstacle, well just because I can. I like driving an SUV for 2 reasons, first my higher vantage point gives me a better view of what’s going on, 2 my SUV lets me carry more kids or more cargo. I just don’t see how living where I live without a car would be possible.

   I think it’s really funny how he vilifies fictitious cars using fictitious gas. Kind of like protesting that muppets who live together and are homosexual.

4. Hawaii SEO Says:
   June 4th, 2006 at 8:51 pm

   Gore didn’t say that for real. (It’s a parody website)

   I thought it was real news until I went to the home page and read more articles. Gore can be an idiot sometimes. It does sound like something he would say.

   Unlike http://www.theonion.com or http://www.ironictimes.com
   They don’t exactly make it obvious if you just land on the article.

5. Steve Says:
   June 4th, 2006 at 9:46 pm

   What ever happened to the solar car?

   I know of a few working examples of solar mopeds. He has a point and I think they both inhaled

   Bottom line is we should use what is freely available to us , wing water, and solar. Those can be converted to electricity to at a minimum help power cost effective hybrids.

   Lets see does anyone have a vested interest to keep oil number one?

6. Hawaii SEO Says:
   June 4th, 2006 at 10:46 pm

   Don’t believe the hype about corn based ethanol saving us from high gas prices. It’s just not there yet. It’s inefficient at the maximizing energy yield per acre for actual production. I have read that six times more energy is used to make corn based ethanol than the finished fuel actually contains.

   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/27/MNG1VDF6EM1.DTL

   BTW - Brazil uses Sugarcane not corn. The US mainland isn’t suited to grow Sugarcane. Hawaii is, but we don’t grow it anymore either. You just can’t grow the stuff economically when the land costs $95,000+ an-acre.

7. Earl Says:
   June 8th, 2006 at 11:33 am

   Sorry, my friend, but this post illustrates the dark side of the Internet. You’ve have taken an article from an obvious parody site, and either by design or ignorance, repeated it as fact.

   Sad.

   We would have hoped for better from someone with your experience.

8. Michael Gray Says:
   June 8th, 2006 at 12:00 pm

   As Hawaii SEO pointed out it is in fact a parody website, which is not overly obvious right away. However I think you can cut me a little slack as Al Gore has been known to actually say stupid things like “TV is bigger than the internet”

   PaidContent.org: October 05, 2005 Archives

   Two things I’ve learend about the Internet: first, as exciting as it is, it still lacks the single most powerful characteristic of TV. Because of IP bottlenecks, it still does not support real time distribution of full screen video, and make no mistake, that is what drives TV, and us. It is true that video streaming is becoming common and cheap storage is becoming possible…and timeshifting is possible now. Bandwidth is increasing..but it is TV, delivered over cable and satellite that will continue to be the dominant medium for the remainder of this decade.

9. Nathan - How To Help Prevent Global Warming By Reducing Your Carbon Footprint Says:
   October 2nd, 2007 at 11:04 pm

   Down with cars, viva la biking revolution!