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Al gore is calling for a 90%
| dlerious | Apr 15th, 2008Al gore is calling for a 90% reduction in fossil fuel usage in the next 15 years. 90%! Has anyone ever thought what that really means? It is well known that technology will not be able to reduce our fossil fuel usage by 90% that quickly - so the only way to accomplish this goal is to cut back DRASTICALLY on our energy usage.
Think: 90% less car use. If you use your car 7 days a week now, you'd only be able to use it half a day a week then. How would you get around the other 6.5 days each week?
Imagine being able to burn lights just 10% as much as you do now. That would give you approximately 11 hours of light usage - A WEEK! That's 1.5 hours of light a day!
Do you really love the environment that much!? Don't get me wrong... I care for the environment a lot, but I can't stop thinking of how many people would die if our refrigerators could only be used 10% of the time. All that spoiled rotten food sending us to the hospital - but hospitals would have to shut down for long stretches each day to contribute their share of this 90% savings.
And all these urgent demands from a man who uses something like 2,000 times more fossil fuels in his own personal life than the average American like you and me! It's really hard to take him seriously after I look at his own personal energy usage. How can someone who takes private JETS to get around tell us we need to cut back 90% on our energy usage?