Yeah Energy Revolution! Today at dead noon Al Gore sauntered up to the national media and made some pretty hot comments Read the whole speech here, but here are my highlights:

"I don’t remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously. Our economy is in terrible shape...gasoline prices...electricity rates...Jobs...outsourced. Home mortgages...Banks, automobile companies...."

Ugh, what a bummer. What follows is a bunch of stuff about how the ice cap could be gone in 5 years, and other stuff that makes me think maybe I should give up this stopping the coal machine gig and just lay on an air conditioned beach drinking Cosmos...But wait!

"Yet when we look at all three of these seemingly intractable challenges...our dangerous over-reliance on carbon-based fuels is at the core...[of] the economic, environmental and national security crises...

Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years. This goal is achievable, affordable and transformative. It represents a challenge to all Americans – in every walk of life: to our political leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, engineers, and to every citizen...

So I ask you to join with me to call on every candidate, at every level, to accept this challenge – for America to be running on 100 percent zero-carbon electricity in 10 years. It's time for us to move beyond empty rhetoric. We need to act now."

I can't resist but to include a few more favorite quotes:

Regarding the potential for renewable energy to get very cheap very fast if we start actually developing it, Gore said, "You know, the same thing happened with computer chips – also made out of silicon. The price paid for the same performance came down by 50 percent every 18 months – year after year, and that’s what’s happened for 40 years in a row."

And finally, a last favorite quote: "It is only a truly dysfunctional system that would buy into the perverse logic that the short-term answer to high gasoline prices is drilling for more oil ten years from now."

SOOO, now that Al Gore has shown us the wisdom, intelligence and common sense of any damn 6 year old who isn't in the pocket of a the fossil fuel industry, I guess it's time to up the ante.

Hop on over to http://www.sierraclub.org/maps/coal.asp and get thinking about how we are going to stop the 100 or so coal fired power plants still on the docket to be built, as well as shut down the 500 existing ones, and then maybe to www.coalriverwind.org to support one of many Coal to Renewable transitions we are going to have to make, and soon. And go to www.Powervote.org.

And then get off the internet! I'll meet you on the street!

Onward!