Al Gore isn't the issue here. His lies are. He's shilling for the industry that controls petroleum, among other things. A hundred years ago a group of men began buying up oil reserves and buying up competing alternative energy sources. They've forced the world onto petroleum as a power source, by and large, and now they're fighting wars for control of even more reserves (the Iraq war started when one of their boys decided to start accepting Euro dollars for oil, which wasn't allowed at the time). So these petro-bankers have us all hooked on oil, and now they want to force us all into debt slavery, and they'll do it by 1) limiting the flow of the endless supplies of oil, 2) not building new refineries, and 3) convincing the more gullible among us that people and their cars are somehow killing the planet. To combat #3, we need punitive taxation. What crap. Al Gore is what he is, a whore, same as the Clintons and Bushes and Blairs of the world. And hatred doesn't mar perception as much as adulation does.