What do you think about Al Gore's alternative energy plan?

Question

I think we should invest more money for alternative forms of energy, but his plan cannot be justified with today's gas prices. His plan suggests that developing alternative energy is as urgent as developing the atomic bomb was to end World War II. Nobody knows what the price of gas will be tomorrow and that's why we shouldn't listen to Al Gore's plan.

Answer 1

Al gore is full of it. People listen to much to the media.  

global waming is a joke.   The media site that hurricanes are getting stronger and more deadly but I don't see the proof. The problem with this assumption is that people don't notice more hurricanes unless they actually get close enough to cause weather conditions to change. every year there is atleast 25 hurricanes that form off the coast of africa. almost none of them actualy strike the east coast but if for 2 years in a row 3 hurricanes strike then they blame it on green house gases but what they alway fail to point out is there are always huricans forming during that time period and most of them simply don't hit the coast. So there aren't more severe weather patterns taking place it's just that there hitting the coast instead of drifting north to the ocean. and far as droughts and heat waves .this is nothing new earth has been changing weather patterns for billions of years.  A few climatic changes do not mean it's the end of the world.

oh and about green energy. people who believe in this c**p are stupid   If you can't produce energy faster than the rate you are consuming it then it wont work. quite simply put If you are burning 20 gallons of biofuel a week then you'd have to grow atleast 20 galons of green matter whatever it may be. So then it wont work. And when the population grows the there will be an increase in demand and more land will be swallowed up by farmers to make there ineffiecent and expensive  energy

Answer 2

With due respect to the other poster, Global warming may be true or may not be true, this would all depend on the outcome of scientific studies currently being conducted by the scientific community.  HOWEVER, supply of Fossil Fuel like crude oil, gas and coal are all finite.  I agree with Al Gore's energy plan, the first step is the hardest to take but given enough political resolve, we will be able to get an alternative energy source, and given enough time we can get an efficient one that does not need to take away available land for food production.  60 years ago we develop the atomic bomb and then harness its energy, though waste product are so dangerous that its hazards far outweights its benefits.  40 years ago we were able to send the first man on the moon, but such successes comes at a price.  We can expect the same thing to happen when we start developing alternative energy source, and developing one is a must so that we no longer have to dance with oil rich countries who support terrorism against us.

Alvin