An Inconvenient Truth

[Occhidiangela]

The usual.

Van:

My son's comment was "that movie was 40 minutes too long, they should have stuck to global warming and left the Al Gore story out of it." And he was right.

As to the rest, I was raised to waste not want not, and we are trying to teach that to our kids.

Democraps are not the only public figures who get damned if you do, damned if you don't situations, so please let's not divert this to a partisan line of BS, as we are wont to, now and again.

To badly paraphrase Jester, the biosphere doesn't care who you vote for. ;)

Al had a chance to take his position and do something wonderful with it -- the sort of thing Ralph Nader did for about 30 years -- and do it credibly since he believes in it. In today's climate, credibility is tough to come by. A film clip of Ray the Moron Nagin, hanging chads, Al's departure, etc, had bloody *&^% all to do with Global Warming and policy issues -- which lie in Congress where the money is controlled -- it has to do with damned foolishness of another sort. The energy policy failures since 1973, particularly in the Auto Industry, are a bipartisan failure of enormous scope, likewise the failed nuclear energy policies.

Ghandi, with less money and more ethical bottom, was able to change the world. All Al does with this film is recycle the same tired sniping under the guise of "for the greater good."

But maybe you are right. Maybe by simply getting the film out, by getting people to talk and (hopefully) take away the message of the last 5 minutes of the film, a seed will be planted.

I doubt it.

The theater I was in had 7 people last night, at the 7:30 show, to include my son and I.

This is a blue county.

Check the demographics in my county, and you will perhaps see where the future problem lies in implementation.

Comment to Kandrathe: the price of a car is indeed now outrageous. So is the cost of repair. The 1974 Super Beetle that I bought in 1979 for $1700, a five year old used VW, would cost me roughly $11-12,000 (used 2001 Beetle) That car has a lot fewer parts and systems I can fix myself, with only marginally better fuel economy (2 Mpg) and (YAY!) reasonably improved emissions profile.

Occhi