Why did Al Gore lie to congress about his personal finances & global warming profits?
March 13, 2010 by
Filed under business group activities
When Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn confronted Al Gore with his profiteering from global warming legislation at today’s House Energy and Environment Subcommittee hearing on the Waxman-Markey climate bill, Al Gore said that every penny he ever made from his business activities went into non-profit efforts. [See transcript below.]
That is a flat-out lie, according to this March 6, 2008 Bloomberg report that indicates that Al Gore invested $35 million of his own money in various for-profit endeavors.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore left the White House seven years ago with less than $2 million in assets, including a Virginia home and the family farm in Tennessee. Now he’s making enough to put $35 million in hedge funds and other private partnerships.
Gore invested the money with Capricorn Investment Group LLC, a Palo Alto, California, firm that selects the private funds for clients and invests in makers of environmentally friendly products, according to a Feb. 1 securities filing. Capricorn was founded by billionaire Jeffrey Skoll, former president of EBay Inc. and an executive producer of Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary film on global warming.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/10567
Read the transcript. So Al Gore simply jumped on the global warming band wagon and supports cap and trade because he can make the almight buck.
There is no question mark in any of that.
Do you want to know why or do you want to tell us that he did?
because thats what polititians do best – Lie and cover up!
That is his job.
What?!?! Lieing in politics?! Pigs must be flying….
His global warming fear mongering has always been for his own personal gain.
Because he’s a super rich liberal democrat and thinks he’s above the law.
I guess you must be one of those communists against the capitalist system. How dare someone make money from new technologies and industries!
that is what he has always done…lie
IT is all about the New World Order. He is part of it.
He wants to scare people into thinking that Global warming is going to kill us all, when really it is the NWO.
His big wife ate the paper work and he got to high wit his junkie son to remember the correct responses. Oh and he lost the computer that held his records in his giant mansion and then his private jet needed to re fuel and he left the copies in ST. Bart’s while he was partying witt rappers at the MTV awards.
I’m not surprised. What makes it worse, 650 climatologists (scientists not politicians) say that global warming is the biggest hoax ever.
Because he comes by lying honestly because he is a Democrat.
Al Gore, like Barack Hussein Obama and other Democrats, could not tell the truth if you water boarded them.
May God protect the American People and the Free World from the Democrat Party and Barack Hussein Obama.
May God enlighten Barack Hussein Obama’s misguided followers and let the see the real evil truth about Barack Hussein Obama.
Semper Fi
Former Vice President Al Gore left the White House over 8 years ago, not 7. He won a million dollar Nobel prize, produced an oscar caliber film, earns money speaking all over the country, and sits on the board of various organizations which all pay him a salary.
Why are you taking transcripts from Canadafreepress.com, and not from U.S. government sources?
And why would you be opposed to a businessman being paid for his efforts? Sounds pretty socialist to me.
Okay, so assuming all this is true – he’s a capitalist. Based upon your avatar, I’ll assume you’re either a Republican or Libertarian so you should support his profiteering. Furthermore, you should argue with anyone who wishes that he would pay more in taxes upon his $35 million.
As for the rest of your allegations, I don’t pretend to know Gore’s fiances but if you had read the Bloomberg article upon which most of your link is based, you would have found that Gore allegedly donated all his profits from “An Inconvenient Truth” to the Alliance for Climate Protection. He has had several other income sources since 2000, many of which could have been fairly lucrative and the $35 million invested with Capricorn is used to fund the development of environmentally friendly products. The fact is that the money is all invested in environmental endeavors and he’s not out buying mansions or a new Bentley.