Al "Use Less" Gore's Embarassing Hypocrisy

...And how wildly this Use Less preacher was cheered on Monday as he stood there in his hair-shirt tuxedo. Cheered by actors who'd actually flown in by private jet. By actresses who'd driven up in stretch limos. By agents with solarium tans glowing under the brightest lights.

Ahem. Speaking of lights, Al, a small problem. But one so very typical. At almost the very instant Gore was handed his Oscar for best documentary, The Tennessean, his home state paper, reported he'd in fact won an Oscar for hypocrisy.

Billing records of the Nashville Electric Service revealed that the local Gore mansion -- a 20-room, eight-bathroom behemoth with a well-lit heated pool -- used more electricity each month than the average American household used in an entire year.

Use Less Gore had so many lights burning, heaters running, computers humming and gadgets whirring that he burned up 221,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity last year, or more than 20 times the national household average. Worse, he was using more electricity now than he did before he made An Inconvenient Truth to hector us into making do with less.

And this isn't even counting all the power he uses for his other two homes, and his endless flights around the world, in private jets and civil, to flog his film...

Read the rest of this piercing piece from Australian columnist Andrew Bolt right here.