Planet Gore contributors Chris Horner, Henry Payne, and others have had a good bit of fun pointing out the hypocrisy of Save the Planet champions like Ted Turner, Barack Obama, and, of course, Al Gore. Nancy Pelosi is on the warm seat tomorrow. Pelosi says she wants “clean energy,” but does she want it enough to support it in her own backyard?
Madame Speaker did plenty of posturing before Netroots Nation in July, saying that she agreed with Al Gore’s goal of getting the entire U.S. to be 100-percent fossil-fuel-free by 2019. Tomorrow, she’ll have the chance to put her constituents’ money where her mouth is, as San Francisco’s Democratic Central Committee (uh-huh, that’s what they call it) considers the Clean Energy Act, which would require San Fran to be 100-percent free of fossil fuels by 2040. That’s a far less stringent timeline than the Goracle’s — which the speaker claims to support — so how can she not support the Clean Energy Act? Frisco mayor Gavin Newsom, who also spoke at Netroots, has already come out as opposed to the Clean Energy Act — so clearly, someone in the Bay has to exercise a little environmental leadership.
Here’s Pelosi’s chance to start saving the planet — as the poet said: Think Globally, Act Locally — by promising progressively more expensive energy for her progressive constituents for the next generation and beyond. We’ll be watching.





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