Did any of you get your Costco Connection Magazine With the Global Warming Profiteer On The Cover?
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November 2, 2009
A cover story about former Vice President Al Gore’s new book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, landed in my mailbox last week. Time? No. Newsweek? Nice try. Popular Science? Guess again.
The magazine was The Costco Connection, the wholesale giant’s monthly publication for members. Gore wrote a piece that was deemed an exclusive.
“Fortunately, there is a growing realization that the solutions to the climate crisis are also the most important solutions for the other two crises (the recession and national security),” the entrepreneur/author/Nobel Prize winner/Belle Meade resident wrote. “We can simultaneously protect our climate and establish stability for our economy and our national security.”
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Finding the Costco Connection magazine in my mailbox with Al Gore’s picture on was akin to looking at porn. I was repulsed! What moronic company would endorse CAP and TAX when it’s bread and butter are small businesses like ours. We promptly closed our COSTCO account and opened an account at SAMS CLUB. Much better service, I might add, at SAMS. At least now we aren’t feeding the pig anymore.
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You can read the online version of the Costco Connection Publication here:www.costco.com/Service/FeaturePage.aspx
or go right to the story propaganda here: www.costcoconnection.com/connection/200911#pg27
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Here is an article from the Uk Telegraph
Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire
Al Gore, the former US vice president, could become the world's first carbon billionaire after investing heavily in green energy companies.
Last year Mr Gore's venture capital firm loaned a small California firm $75m to develop energy-saving technology.
The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient.
The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants, the New York Times reports. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts.
The move means that venture capital company Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years.
Few people have been as vocal about the urgency of global warming and the need to reinvent the way the world produces and consumes energy as Mr Gore. And few have put as much money behind their advocacy and are as well positioned to profit from this green transformation, if and when it comes.
Critics, mostly on the political right and among global warming sceptics, say Mr. Gore is poised to become the world's first "carbon billionaire," profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in.
Representative Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, has claimed that Mr Gore stood to benefit personally from the energy and climate policies he was urging Congress to adopt.
Mr Gore had said that he is simply putting his money where his mouth is.
"Do you think there is something wrong with being active in business in this country?" Mr. Gore said. "I am proud of it. I am proud of it."
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Link to a blog I posted about Gore & his profits: people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/Infowar/51423
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