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Originally Posted by The Unabomber
I see that you sat that global warming is a long term problem, what you forgot to add Lanny is that it needs to be fixed in a short period of time. I don't like Al Gore but i don't dislike him either, but he is a politician at heart and that's the end of it. If he had the balls to do anything while in office as VP he would have, the problem with that is he would have lost all the votes from the oil and gas sector which would include auto workers union, this he couldn't have done.
If these people want to preach about global warming and how easy it is to fix then why don't they start at the top, they have the technology for electric/solar power cars, why doesn't mister Gore do something about that? See, once big business buys into global warming and fixing it then it will trickle down to the consumer, but until they do something about it then it's not a topic worth talking about. The oil and gas companies are the ones with the power to make a change, i don't forsee this happening in North America for a long time.
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I agree with what you are saying, but you ahve to realize that for the most part, the Vice President has zero power while in office. In fact, without congress, the President has his hands tied for the most part. This is what is completely lost on people when they try to comprehend the accomplishments of given Presidents. Bush got a lot of what he wanted, because he had party control over the house and the senate. Now that the house and senate are controlled by the Democrats, Bush will get nothing accomplished. He is too adversarial and will be at loggerheads with Congress. Conversely, Clinton was in the opposite situation, working against a Republican controlled house and senate and still managed to get his agenda completed by working with the GOP. Those are just two examples of how politics work in this country and how they can tie the hands of those in power. Getting back to Gore, he really had nothing to do with setting policy or pushing forward an agenda. To be honest, he had more power working in congress than he did as VP. Saying he was ineffective as VP is just wrong, as not many VP's have had opportunity to do much while in office.