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.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html
Isn’t it special that Al’s Powerpoint movie on CO2 may give him the means to make him stinking filthy rich at OUR expense?
Any US media reporting Brother Al’s dealings? Unlikely….
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Because those are the only two possibilities.
Why can’t he be both?
Categorizing doesn’t really do anything other than enforce stereotypes.
This only underscores that the Green Economy will create jobs and wealth (as well as personal savings increases) in the US.
Please remember this the next time you or others think that cap and trade will hurt folks, because, it won’t, it will improve the US economy and personal wealth, greatly
It’s Gore’s Haliburton
Seems like he is a smart and savvy investor who is going to make a lot of money and the fact that someone like YOU might get inconvenienced is just a HUGE bonus that has the rest of us giggling
If the crap & tax bullsxit goes thru, Al will wind up making Bill Gates look like a street bum as the bogus ‘global warming’ tax just happens to go to a corp that Big Al happens to own. http://newsbusters. org/node/11149
http://www. riehlworldview. com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/03/al_gores_inconv. html
http://www. worldnetdaily. com/news/article. asp?ARTICLE_ID=54528
Only libs. . . are fooled. . . by the douche who invented the internet.
How stupid are these people?
Riiiight and here is the Republican alternative
wanna go over that again?
oink-oink, my good man!