nope, he is just waiting for the right time, more dramatic this way. he will come in as a white knight.... mr global carbon tax. the dem's are all over charging us more for energy.... telling us to suck it up and save planet earth. "pay our fair share" i would be surprised if they went past late july though to announce his candidacy. but this thing is reading like a script..... payback for the "stolen 2000 election"... we should have gone with gore.. heal the earth, blah blah blah.
I did not see the debate. I wish I had. However over the weekend i was convinced by some people I just met (lawyers while bowling) that the dems have no choice but to nominate Gore. Absolutely no choice. Hillary and Obama have crowded out the others and Hillary cant win, Obama is not ready for multiple reasons. Gore must know this. Therefore I agree with S.A. wow, I am not sure I can take responsibility for my keyboard. I hope he does. He will force the Republicans to do something.
Just who are the Hillary supporters anyway? So far I know of one - Buffett. Anyone here want to come forward? And BTW, did any of you read that clip from Bernstein's book about Hillary and Vince Foster? There was no scandal or anything untoward and that isn't what caught my eye -- it was the part about her being an unhappy person, unlike her spouse, and Bush even. Somethings not right with her I say.
I've changed my mind about Gore. He wants to tax carbon (ie fuels) and remove equal taxes on wages to make the US more competitive without lowering wages more (after inflation). This will also reduce oil imports and increase exports He did an interview on Bloomberg over the weekend. At this point he'd get my vote on the basis of economic policy. I have never voted for a democrat candidate before in my life.
. Version77: Curiosity? I am curious why Al Gore is out selling his book instead of getting into the thick of things with the other Democratic candidates. Maybe he is afraid of Hillary Clinton? I am sure she knows more about Al Gore than anyone else. Maybe he has been told his time is over and it is Hillary's time... Dems don't want to lose in 2008... ************ June 5, 2007 SouthAmerica: He is in an unique position and he does not have to fight for exposure with the voters. He is doing the smart thing â just waiting in the wings for the right time to jump into the race â and when he decides to do that then he will be a fresh face and he will receive all the mainstream mediaâs attention from then onâ¦.. In the meantime let the other candidates get over exposure and over analyzed by the 24/7 mainstream media and by September most people will be tired of the current crew. Next on Al Gore's agenda: Al Gore will get a lot of mainstream media attention regarding his global show on July 7, 2007 to raise money for the global warming effort â that show will run for 24 hours and parts of the show is supposed to be broadcasted including all continents â it is a global effort with a positive global exposure for Al Gore. And during this hurricane season â every time we have a new hurricane Al Goreâs name will be all over the mainstream media because of the issue of global warming. Ten months ago when I started this thread - I was getting irritated by the discussions of the talking heads and pundits on television regarding the presidential election of 2008, they were talking about a bunch of people as the potential candidates, but not a single person was talking about Al Gore or taking in consideration that he might run for president once again. If Al Gore jumps in the race by October of 2008 he still has time to raise money and do well on the electoral process. I would be very surprised if Al Gore doesnât know by now that the presidency is his if he so desire to be president of the United States and he also knows that he is the strongest candidate from both parties who will be running on the 2008 presidential election. One year ago I realized that Al Gore will be the next president of the United States â I just wonder who is the best choice for Al Gore to add into his ticket as the vice president. The issue that we should be discussing on this thread should be â Who should Al Gore choose to be include on his ticket as the vice presidential candidate? .
. June 5, 2007 SouthAmerica: Last Friday I saw a very interesting documentary on television â Who killed the electric car? (2006) by filmmaker Chris Paine. By the way this documentary will be repeated on Tuesday June 5, 2007 at 10 PM on cable channel âStarzâ. This documentary is about the development of an electrical car EV-1 by General Motors - an automobile that required no gas or oilâ¦. The filmmaker also documented how GM and the major oil companies sabotaged the electric car project right from the beginning. GM senior management still sabotaging the electric car today for example: I saw a program on CNN âOut of Oilâ which was broadcasted this past weekend and I believe that I had seen that program a few months ago. On this program a CNN reporter interviews Bob Lutz â GMâs vice chairman for product development â and Mr. Lutz try to give the impression to the viewer that GM still having problems with its batteries for the electric cars and he even mention that GM likes to call when batteries catch on fire â he said GM refers to it as thermal events. GM still wants to give the impression to the public that it is very dangerous to drive these cars because their batteries can have thermal events. The documentary who killed the electric car? Show to the public how hard GM fought to destroy the electric car â and they even interview the owner of ovonic battery â a company that had developed a battery that increased the range of the EV-1 from 60 to 100 miles between charges and a much safer battery. GM sold its 60 percent ownership in Ovonic Battery to Chevron Texaco for them to kill that improved battery project. The car dealers also started giving GM a hard time about the electric car because that car needed very little maintenance when compared with a car that runs on a combustion engine. The dealers brought to the attention of GM that the regular car maintenance of regular combustion engine cars was a big chunk of their regular business. It was very interesting the interview that they had with Mr. Stan Oshinsky. and his wife, Dr. Iris Oshinsky, of Energy Conversion. Technologies â and how GM and the major oil companies buried all his discoveries regarding innovations on batteries for the electric car. GM Ovonic was formed in 1994 between GM and Ovonic Battery to manufacture a new type of battery for the EV-1 When the day comes â the US government should allow GM to go bankrupt and go out of business â that is a corporation that is not worth of being saved. ********** TEXACO TO ACQUIRE GENERAL MOTORS' SHARE OF GM OVONIC BATTERY JOINT VENTURE Deal Reflects Technology's Potential for Broad Energy Applications FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2000. DETROIT, Mich., October 10 â Texaco (NYSE: TX) and General Motors (NYSE: GM) today announced Texaco's intent to acquire GM's share of a joint venture that has developed an advanced battery technology for the automotive market. Under the terms of the memorandum of understanding, Texaco will acquire GM's 60 percent share of an existing joint venture with Energy Conversion Devices - ECD - (NASDAQ: ENER), a firm in which Texaco already holds a 20 percent interest. GM and Ovonic Battery Company, a subsidiary of ECD, formed the joint venture, GM Ovonic, in 1994 to manufacture and commercialize high-efficiency, nickel metal hydride (NiMH) automobile batteries. The joint venture, which will be re-named Texaco Ovonic, plans to fully commercialize and expand its applications to a broad range of energy markets. "ECD and Ovonic developed breakthrough advanced NiMH battery technology and General Motors has brought it to the production stage," said Texaco Senior Vice President William M. Wicker. "With the demand for all-electric and hybrid vehicles projected to grow significantly over the next few years, the time is right to extend this technology to the entire automotive market and take it to the next level of commercial development. "This technology is already being used as a source of power in items such as cellular telephones and personal computers and we believe it holds the potential to meet a wide range of non-automotive uses. As a company committed to developing a significant presence in the energy technology field, we are excited to be part of this joint venture." General Motors Vice Chairman Harry J. Pearce said that the future of the battery-powered electric vehicle relies on addressing the critical issue of cost. Successfully addressing this issue requires both high-volume applications and further technical development. "General Motors, ECD and Ovonic led the industry in the initial commercialization and technology development for advanced vehicle batteries," said Pearce. "Together, we improved the range of our world-class GM EV1 to more than 150 miles with the GM Ovonic nickel metal hydride technology and opened the door to more efficient hybrid vehicles in the future. GM Ovonic's Kettering, Ohio, plant is the first and only facility in the United States dedicated exclusively to the production of NiMH batteries for electric vehicles. We are very proud of these successes and extremely pleased that Texaco will now join with Ovonic and ECD to take the next step in commercialization to reduce costs by spreading this technology to many other automotive customers and applications as well as to non-automotive uses. And, we anticipate that Texaco Ovonic will be our supplier for NiMH batteries." In a joint statement, Stanford R. Ovshinsky, ECD President and CEO, and Robert C. Stempel, ECD Chairman, said, "This is a great transition for Ovonic Battery. We started out with the support and manufacturing development expertise of automotive leader, GM, and now we will have the broad reach and marketing expertise of global energy leader, Texaco. This is the right move at the right time for the right reasons - it's a win-win for our current and future customers, the companies, and consumers." The Ovonic battery offers several significant advantages over conventional batteries: · More energy. The Ovonic battery has more than twice the energy of conventional lead-acid batteries of the same weight. This translates directly to extended driving range between recharges. · More power. Ovonic's NiMH technology is especially adaptable for hybrid-electric applications that require very high power levels. · Long life. The Ovonic battery life cycle is four times longer than conventional batteries, meaning that one Ovonic battery can last the projected 150,000 mile lifetime of electric or gas-electric hybrid vehicles. · Less environmental impact. The Ovonic battery is environmentally preferable, since it uses no lead. The base material, Nickel, is highly reclaimable as are the other metal alloys used in the battery. · Versatility. The Ovonic battery can be used in all types of automobiles - conventional, gas-electric hybrids, all-electric vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles. The joint venture expects to manufacture batteries for use in model year 2003 vehicles. .
. June 8, 2007 SouthAmerica: Europeans and the rest of the world will have to wait until January of 2009 - when the newly elected president Al Gore assumes the presidency in the United States â for them to get a more realistic and meaningful agreement regarding global warming. Until then just play along with the incompetent crew of the Bush administration that are doing wherever regarding anything. ************ âG8 leaders agree to climate compromiseâ By James Gerstenzang, Times Staff Writer Los Angeles Times - June 7, 2007 HEILIGENDAMM, Germany -- Leaders of the largest industrial nations agreed here Thursday to a compromise on efforts to combat global warming which had been sought by President Bush. Participants in the Group of Eight summit, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, yielded to Bush's insistence that while new talks were necessary to deal with climate change, the summit must not order specific steps and targets to reduce the greenhouse gases widely blamed for rising temperatures. Bush has sought goals rather than mandatory steps. Merkel entered the summit calling for a plan endorsed by most European leaders, under which participating nations would reduce their emissions by 2050 to half of what they were in 1990. Instead, she came away with a goal, a nonmandated course favored by Bush, of such an emissions reduction, and a decision to "invite" the "the major economies," a category that includes China, India and Brazil, to join them. "I can live very well with the compromise," Merkel told German television interviewers. While the chancellor and British Prime Minister Tony Blair presented the global warming agreement as a strong step forward, many environmentalists were not pleased. Reinhard Buetikofer, head of Germany's opposition Green party, said the summit statement was "juggling with words," and added: "To 'consider seriously' halving the emissions by 2050 is a triumph of vagueness and noncommitment." At the same time, Fred Krupp, who heads the U.S. organization Environmental Defense, praised Bush's acceptance of the summit plan. He said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., chair of the Senate Environment Committee, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., must promptly take advantage of widespread U.S. business support for a cap-and-trade program, under which polluters that have difficulty reducing emissions to capped levels can buy credits from others who reduce emissions below the limit. Such a system is in use in Europe under the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The new plan proposed here would replace that U.N.-sponsored agreement. Global warming was one of the central topics of the two-and-a-half days of formal and social meetings at the summit, whose participants are the United States, Russia, Germany, Britain, Canada, France, Italy and Japan. For the second consecutive day, demonstrators opposed to economic globalization and in favor of tougher steps to counter global warming wreaked havoc with access routes to this village on the northeastern coast, but failed to disrupt the session. Greenpeace sent speed boats into the coastal security zone, 13 miles wide and 9 miles out to sea, bringing police boats into pursuit. Two Greenpeace activists and one police officer were injured when an inflatable police boat ran over a Greenpeace boat, the police said. Twenty-one people were arrested, and the police said they seized eight boats. Greenpeace said 11 boats were taken. On land, some 5,000 demonstrators tried to reach a checkpoint near Heiligendamm, but were pushed back by mounted police. .
. Al Gore wins Spanish prize for climate change fight Reuters - 06 Jun 2007 MADRID, June 6 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore was awarded Spain's prestigious Principe de Asturias prize on Wednesday for his role in raising awareness of climate change. The award for International Cooperation comes alongside a nomination for a Nobel prize for his environmental work and the success of his global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", which won two Oscars. "With his leadership he has contributed to raising awareness in governments and societies across the world to defend this noble...cause," Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, a former Spanish premier who led the jury, saidâ¦. .
. June 14, 2007 SouthAmerica: Al Gore should take his time on the process of deciding who will be on his presidential ticket as the vice president â Al Gore needs a running mate who will help him carry one of the red states. ********** June 14, 2007 Bill Clinton: âAl Goreâ to Enter Presidential Race Washington, Jun 13 (Prensa Latina) Former US President Bill Clinton said that his friend and running mate, Al Gore, will enter the Democratic race for the White House, The New York Post reported on Wednesday. According to the newspaper, Clinton warned his wife, Hillary, that she is likely to face stiff competition from a yet unannounced source - Al Gore. The New York senator is the front-runner in the polls, followed by Illinois Congressman Barack Obama and former North Caroline Senator John Edwards. The ex president said that Gore is preparing a good effect to enter the presidential race unexpectedly. "Someone's got to fizzle," Clinton said. "If someone fizzles, then yeah, he could enter the race. He's got plenty of money, his own money, to do it." The New York Post quoted analyst Andy Ostroy, who said that Gore plans to enlist Obama as a vice presidential candidate. "Gore will toss his hat into the ring and enlist the junior senator from Illinois as his running mate. An unbeatable ticket," he said. Source: http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={2E4604BD-F68B-4B44-99CB-F72CF7D8EDE0}&language=EN .