Sen. James Inhofe appears to have just asked Al Gore to commit to using no more energy than the average home without using “gimmicks” like carbon offsets. Gore has evaded, but doesn’t seem willing to respond in the affirmative.

The two are getting pretty snippy with each other, talking over each other and such. As far as C-SPAN goes, this is pretty tense television.

Update: Gore just invited Inhofe (who, I should’ve mentioned before, is probably the Senate’s biggest opponent of global warming policy) to breakfast. But now they’re getting snippy again.

Update 2: There’s a clip of Sen. Boxer more or less reprimanding Inhofe–or at least asserting control–after he didn’t allow Gore to respond to a question over at Hot Air. At the Corner, John Podhoretz thinks Inhofe was out of line.