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| Right wingers to attack Al Gore's 'credibility' A right wing think tank has announced it will attack the credibility of former Vice President and environmental campaigner Al Gore through a series of new television ads. Mr Gore, who has since leaving office in 2000 started several businesses, including an interactive television network and the production of environmental film 'An Inconvenient Truth', has long been attacked for his significant wealth. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) said that it would launch a series of damaging television ads designed to highlight Mr Gore's alleged "hypocrisy" over global warming. The CEI, which has close ties to ExxonMobil Corporation, one of the largest producers of oil and petroleum products, said that Mr Gore was being misleading about his true environmental credentials. "He is the high priest of global warming but he continues his high-flying ways," the CEI's Sam Kazman told the Washington Times. "Restricting affordable energy can affect our jobs and the well-being of this nation. To restrict affordable energy in developing countries would be incredibly disturbing. That could constitute a life and death matter for them." Al Gore has previously defended his jet-setting lifestyle by saying he offsets all travel, adding that part of his campaign is to have a presence in order to inspire others. Central to the ad's claims will be that Mr Gore's own Tennessee home uses about 20-times the average power use of another American home. "If Gore truly believed the future of Earth is in peril, he would have started at home by doing his part to reduce his own 'carbon footprint'," Mr Kazman said. The ads are due to screen across sections of the United States in the coming weeks. |