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To: Alighieri who wrote (401101)	7/23/2008 6:58:01 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1579709

Crazed prophet "Al Gore gave a speech last week 'challenging' America to run 'on 100 percent zero-carbon electricity in 10 years' — though that's just the first step on his road to 'ending our reliance on carbon-based fuels.' Serious people understand this is absurd. Maybe other people will start drawing the same conclusion about the man proposing it," Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens writes. "The former vice president has also recently disavowed any intention of returning to politics. This is wise. As America's leading peddler of both doom and salvation, Mr. Gore has moved beyond the constraints and obligations of reality. His job is to serve as a Prophet of Truth. "In Mr. Gore's prophecy, a transition to carbon-free electricity generation in a decade is 'achievable, affordable and transformative.' He believes that the goal can be achieved almost entirely through the use of 'renewables' alone, meaning solar, geothermal, wind power and biofuels. "Here, however, is an inconvenient fact. In 1995, the U.S. got about 2.2 percent of its net electricity generation from 'renewable' sources, according to the Energy Information Administration. By 2000, the last full year of the Clinton administration, that percentage had dropped to 2.1 percent. By contrast, the combined share of coal, petroleum and natural gas rose to 70 percent from 68% during the same time frame. "Now the share of renewables is up slightly, to about 2.3 percent as of 2006 (the latest year for which the EIA provides figures). The EIA thinks the use of renewables (minus hydropower) could rise to 201 billion kilowatt hours per year in 2018 from the current 65 billion. But the EIA also projects total net generation in 2018 to be 4.4 trillion kilowatt hours per year. That would put the total share of renewables at just over 4 percent of our electricity needs."