Along with Black Eye Pea’s frontman will.i.am, Bob Barr was among the noted celebrities to attend Al Gore’s New Energy Challenge speech.
Gore thanked will.i.am for making the trip from California, and praised Barr for his serious attention to the issue of global climate change.
After the crowd settled down, it wasn’t long before Gore brought them to rapturous applause when he said, “We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that’s got to change.”
Barr, understood to be a global-warming skeptic, recently issued his own government energy policy statement at BobBarr2008.com.
It must be noted, of course, that Barr’s mere attendance at the event in no way indicates an endorsement of Gore’s views. However, Gore certainly seems to think — erroneously, probably — that it does.
See what I get for giving hardcore statist Bob Barr the benefit of the doubt?
No, he just sucks up to statists on the left and right — just like his toadies at the LPHQ.
well, at least now you can’t continue to claim that Barr is only pandering to “conservative” GOP types…
or perhaps Gore is the one sucking up to Barr in hopes of securing a cabinet position in his administration…? must not realize the Dept. of Energy is on the chopping block…
TPW says:
According to The Hill, a newspaper serving the Capitol Hill community in Washington, D.C.:
Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr praised Al Gore on Thursday for his commitment to addressing climate change and said he has met with the former vice president several times to discuss possible solutions.
According to The Hill, Barr thinks the most effective energy solution will be “market-based,†but he also says it’s time to recognize that global warming “is a very serious problem†and that it will get “dramatically worse†unless significant action is taken.