Going Gore Crazy!

It's not a justification so much as an acknowledgement of the fact of life that people will rarely be willing to give up the best lifestyle they can afford. It doesn't really make it right but it is human.
As for your next point you seem to be defining it as hypocritical to use fossil fuel energy while telling people to change. That may be the easy conclusion to come to. It is also a problem that many smaller environmental groups can run into. how do you justify printing out flyers to inform people of your event that will focus on stopping climate change when it will use energy( not to mention the paper). But the answer is that this is how you get change to occur. If you don't print off the flyers then people won't know about the problem or the event. So while this act will in a small way contribute to the problem it is the only way to encourage real change in the long run. In the same way flying around to speak to people about glbal warming is not neccessarily hypocrytical becuase it is the way to inform people and galvanize action for the problem. Additionally the whole point of much recent talk on this issue is that while reducing the energy we use(mostly by increasing eficiency of electrical equipment and small conservative steps) is important it alone is not the long term solution by switching to alternative energy the goal is to be able to continue to use energy in current large amounts without the negative effects of a finite source of fuel and climate change created by burning of that fuel.
I must confess I don't know exactly what he uses for the home though I would assume it has something to do with wind or solar power.

As for the plane assumeing the news networks has its story right it one of the most inefficient fueled planes there is however that's all I really know about it.

As for hillary . If the success of this draftgore petition is any indication at all then I think he stands a chance. I'm not sure If he could win in Iowa at this point but in michigan I am furious at the way that the current candidates withdrew from the primary(even hillary who kept her name on the ballot promised not to campaign in michigan). And all over a goofey battle over when the primaries should be and Iowa pressureing the candidates. I have to say that if al gore entered he may not be able to win in Iowa but with his name on the ballot in michigan and other large states would likely draw tremendous support. He is certainly the only candidate I can think of that stands a chance of beating hillary
In any case If gore runs he has my vote. but what we have to do right now is get him to run.
Will