The University of California recently paid Al Gore $100,000 for a 75-minute speaking engagement regarding the environment. For the event he also demanded complete control over all the press materials advertising the talk. Y’know, a lot of people will frown on the implications of all this money being made from what is popularly regarded as a “good cause”, but they don’t realize how much time and effort it involves.

It sounds easy, but in reality it can be a trying experience, especially if a phalanx of panda bears are blocking your path to the campus. In this situation, the average enviro-friendly vehicle does not typically have the torque to dispatch the animals via ramming, so either blades must be installed on the front of your vehicle, or non-environmentally-friendly bulldozers must be brought in to eliminate the obstacles and ultimately to preserve the momentum of the Green Movement.

I, for one, commend Al Gore for his activism, and find his fee to be quite reasonable. Until these greedy corporate automakers start producing biodiesels equipped with front-end panda-mutilation-devices (PMDs), the little guy has no choice but to make a buck here and there to pay for his part in a greener world.

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