Gore’s Dual Role in Spotlight: Advocate and Investor

[Terri]

John Broder
NY Times

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small California firm sought financing for an energy-saving technology from the venture capital firm where Mr. Gore is a partner.

The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient. It came to Mr. Gore’s firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital providers, looking for $75 million to expand its partnerships with utilities seeking to install millions of so-called smart meters in homes and businesses.

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Critics, mostly on the political right and among global warming skeptics, 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.

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We have mass ignorance in this country and that makes people susceptible to all kinds of charlatans.

[social-isms]

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.

I do not begrudge him taking advantage of the free market. However, he is Chicken Little yelling the 'sky is falling' and then profiteering from it.

Carpetbagger. Snake oil salesman. An investigation from the S.E.C. should be requested by Congress.

[Thundercat505]

he is great at investion other people's money!! the problem is that most of it isn't good for the OP. a recent article floated by that said he and friends of his were getting several million bucks of taxpayer money in order to build a car that will be marketed ONLY in sweden (if memory serves) and will be sold at a couple hundred grand per car.

but chicken little will definitely become one of the richest men in the world due to carbon credits from the idiots who wish to believe in something that is totally false and natural.

[Dingbat36]

Gore is the quintessential "Flim Flam Man" and so much of the public is too stupid to see it!!

[Charie]

The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts.

All together now, boys and girls............... ... insider information. Mmm....mmm...mmm

He's probably worth a billion now and all because of the hoax he's perpetrating practically over the whole world.

About now, he and his cohorts know they can never go back and say, "Never mind." They, and others, have way too much money involved in this scheme.

I'd like to his fat butt.

[qrayjack]

The incestuous Gore/Costco connection:

The Very Convenient Gore
The leading global warming alarmist cozies up to a big-box store. - by Debra J. Saunders, The Weekly Standard