It's refreshing to see Al G out there promoting the idea that we can make the majority of our energy with non carbon sources in the not too distant future. It's refreshing to hear this as opposed to the energy camp that keeps saying powering ourselves with renewable energy any time in the imaginable future is impossible. And most people are just sitting on the sidelines while Gore becomes the defacto green cheerleader who can say what he wants because he does not need to get elected.
Whatever happened to the idea of manifesting destiny and the whole pioneering ideal that anything was possible despite the difficulties and sacrifices one must make to get where you want to go? Clearly the settlers that took over North America did not sit around and say that crossing the ocean in tiny wooden ships or going across hostile, dangerous, un chartered territory was going to stop them from anything. They didn't sit around and worry about going bankrupt and how hard everything was. They just got in their damn ships and wagons or on horses and took off knowing that it was better to die trying than sit at home and let some other country or clan or company do something, every doubter said was impossible, before anyone else could.
Thanks Al G for not getting elected President. Thanks for letting George W screw everything up even worse than it was before. I'm not saying the problems we are having is a Republican problem and that the Democrats have all the solutions. The California Governator Shwartzenegger is a Republican and look what he has done to lead California into a bright green energy future.
As they used to say during the first Internet boom in early 1990's - there is paradigm shift going on. There were even people who doubted that the Internet would actually make money. Remember the first net boom and how it crashed and how all the naysayers said - see it was all just an illusion? But look at the Internet now. After the hiccup of it's initial success the Internet has almost become our life and its not just a part of it.
And same goes for all the renewable energy technology that lots of people say is not really going to happen any time soon in the near future. Sure some of the technologies may go belly up and some of the ideas and companies will fade away.
But just like how the Internet is here to stay after being brought into question, the same will be for the amazing new energy technology being developed now.
It's time for someone to come on the scene and out Gore Gore. The world would have been less interesting if we had Daniel Boone without Wild Bill. The Pilgrims in New England without the French in the Bayou. Bill Gates without Steve Jobs. Apple without Microsoft. Yahoo without Google.
You get the picture. Don't we need more than one green cheer leader?
Come on all you politicos out there who have something to say. Do you have what it takes to out Gore Gore? The more Gore the better.
