The Green Power Switch is a program of the TVA where caring customers can pay an extra $4.00 for 150 kWh of electricity. Said money goes toward the higher cost of green energy generation. Gore claims to purchase enough with this program to offset his piggish electricity consumption. However, nothing in the TVA literature promised to spend that surplus cash on more green power generation. Even if it is all spent on new green capacity will $4.00/kWh really offset the higher cost of green sources? Really? The Dept. of Energy cites the average yearly household consumption at 10,655 kWh. Do you really think we can generate all our electric power needs with green sources for an average household increase of only $24.00/month? It is just a pipedream; a feel good program, and Al must know it, because he is an expert on all things energy.

To compensate for his non-electric energy use he claims to buy Carbon Offsets. These offsets are sold by organizations like Carbonfund.org. But from Wikipedia we learn

The appeal of becoming "carbon neutral" has contributed to the growth of voluntary offsets, which often are a more cost-effective alternative to reducing one's own fossil-fuel consumption. However, the actual amount of carbon reduction (if any) from an offset project is difficult to measure, largely unregulated, and vulnerable to misrepresentation

One of the most frequent ways Carbonfund uses your money to "reduce" carbon emissions is to plant trees, but many environmentalists disagree with this approach because trees "produce more CO2 when they decay than they consume when they are alive".

So, is Al really so uninformed on the tradeoffs involved in alternative energy generation, or is he lying every time he opens his rapacious mouth?