Connecticut River is raised 8 inches for Gore "rowboat" photo-op; "Environmentalist" Veep wastes 4 billion gallons, worth $7.1 million
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Tipper, Canoe & Al Gore, Too
Source URL: http://www.junkscience.com/july99/canoe.htm
This story is shorthand for the way radical environmentalists like Al Gore always operate - they make all kinds of rules for the rest of us, but give themselves an exception.
- Gore criticizes using water for irrigation: In his book, Earth in the Balance, Gore complains that three quarters of the fresh water used by humans is used for irrigation, and how, he says, three-fifths of all irrigation water is wasted.
- He criticizes using water for agriculture to feed people, but wastes 4 billion gallons for a photo opportunity
- He tells YOU not to water your lawn - But at 2.5 gallons per minute, you'd have to water your lawn 7 days a week, 24-hours a day for 3,042 YEARS to use up 4 billion gallons !
- He passes LAWS telling you how much water your toilet can use - but based on the new standards Gore and the other environmentalists helped push into law (1.6 gallons per flush), you'd have to flush 2.5 BILLION TIMES to waste as much water as Al Gore just did !
- Gore says YOU don't deserve a tax cut, but wastes $7.1 million on this. Al Gore won't let you get back 27 cents of every dollar you've overpaid Washington, but this "stunt" wasted $7.1 million in water usage fees.
- It costs $1.33 for 748 gallons of water in New Hampshire. By wasting 180,000 gallons per second, Al Gore's photo op cost $320.05 every second - that's almost as much as the average New Hampshire family earns in a WEEK ($306.90).
- Of COURSE He Knew About This. Gore SAYS he and his Advance Team didn't know anything about this, but the truth is, his Advance Team MUST have known he couldn't row a boat in 6 to 8 inches of water!
- This isn't the FIRST time this has happened - back in 1996, his team ordered 96 million gallons of the South Platte River for a photo op. We say he "tapped the Rockies!"
- Al Gore always claims he didn't know what was going on - he didn't know it was a Buddhist Temple Fundraiser, he didn't know it was wrong to use government phones to shake down corporate CEO's for money, he didn't know Bill Clinton was lying to him.
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August 2, 1999 Volume 04 Issue 31
*** Rollin' down the river:You have to love that Vice President Al Gore urges Americans to protect the environment, but when it comes time for a photo opportunity with a fellow Democrat, no conservation measure is left standing. When Gore went canoeing on the Connecticut River last week with New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen, the Secret Service and the Joint Commission responsible for the river asked the local utilities to release water from a dam to raise the level of the river. After all, Gore and company wouldn't have much fun on the drought-affected waterway if their canoe were scraping bottom the whole way.
Gore's campaign team denied that they had anything to do with the water release. But Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson was quick to point out that Gore's advance team "had to know" that authorities were planning to raise the level of the river. In fact, the GOP finger-pointer says that Gore had done the same darn thing in Nicholson's home state of Colorado in March 1996. "He 'tapped the Rockies' for 96 million gallons for a photo op ... [releasing] water from the Chatfield Reservoir so Gore could stand in front of a roaring South Platte River -- instead of a dry riverbed." Nicholson estimated that 4 billion gallons were released into the low Connecticut River.
Gore's team countered that "only" 591 million gallons were let go.
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