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Hey Louis, wassupppppp ?!! Glad you joined our forums. Look forward to riding up there around Vegas sometime soon, and let us know when you need help charting a route for a ride. You need to come down here sometime to do some riding in our neck of the woods also !! Talk to you soon,

Want to voice your opinion ?? Write a letter to the UT writer at the bottom of the page. LINK to article ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protection, Acre by Acre Couple's long fight to preserve backcountry aided by powerful ally By Mike Lee STAFF WRITER March 27, 2007 Wilderness issues frame many land-use battles For the past decade, San Diego conservationist Camille Armstrong and her colleagues have combed California for pristine parcels that might deserve the nation's most restrictive land-use designation. JOHN GASTALDO / Union-Tribune Geoffrey Smith and his wife, Camille Armstrong, are longtime San Diego County environmentalists and advocates of increasing protected wilderness areas in Southern California. They've pored over maps, snapped stacks of photographs, camped far and wide across the backcountry, consulted managers of land-use agencies and lobbied politicians. They've found a big-time backer in Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., head of the Senate's environment committee. Recently, Boxer introduced her statewide wilderness blueprint for the fourth time. It proposes that more than 2.4 million acres of California – including about 45,000 acres in San Diego County – be designated as federal wilderness. It's the largest of several wilderness bills introduced in Congress this year. Still, it covers only half of the lands in California that some conservationists say could qualify for the status, which generally prohibits buildings and mechanized transportation – including bicycles – in favor of fishing, hiking, canoeing and other nonmotorized activities. Given the Bush administration's opposition to previous versions of Boxer's statewide plan, a bipartisan alliance in Congress is pursuing a more modest goal of marking some 125,000 acres as wilderness in Riverside County. It's all part of a decades-old strategy to secure new land protections wherever they can be had. “Every history book that you read about California starts off with its natural beauty,” Boxer said. “We designate (wilderness) to make sure that the population gets to enjoy God's gift to our state.” Boxer credits the persistence of volunteers like Armstrong for helping forge her California Wild Heritage Act. “They have been my eyes and ears on the ground,” she said. “Without them, I certainly couldn't have gotten as far as I have.” Armstrong attended her first wilderness meeting in 1987 hoping to protect oak trees and chaparral near Valley Center, where she grew up and now works as an elementary schoolteacher. “I was so disturbed by what I saw going on with the San Diego County development in the late '70s and '80s that I finally couldn't take it anymore,” she said. Wilderness in America Most acreage by state 1. Alaska: 57.4 million acres 2. California: 14.3 million acres 3. Arizona: 4.6 million acres 4. Washington: 4.3 million acres 5. Idaho: 4 million acres Source: www.wilderness.net But the Sierra Club's gathering was about something else: generating support for a bill by then-Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., that targeted huge swaths of the California desert as wilderness. To qualify for wilderness status, the lands must already be federal property controlled by the Forest Service, the National Park Service and other agencies. They generally exclude roads, buildings and power lines. After an area is designated as wilderness, the agencies can no longer reconfigure land-use plans to include development such as off-road vehicle courses, backcountry resorts and logging operations. Federal land managers typically step up their patrols to ban snowmobiling, mountain biking and other outlawed activities. They mark the territory with signs, block user-created roads and beef up walking trails to accommodate more visitors interested in exploring the newly christened wilderness terrain. They sometimes limit the number of people who can enter such zones in an attempt to retain their unspoiled character. Such restrictions resonated with Armstrong during that meeting two decades ago. She was tapped to lead the club's wilderness-organizing effort in San Diego County. Seven years later, President Clinton signed the Desert Protection Act, adding about 7.7 million acres of wilderness on California's eastern edge and establishing the Death Valley and Joshua Tree national parks. “We discovered that a few people can make a difference,” Armstrong said. “It was such an amazing experience to be part of something so big.” Armstrong later married Geoffrey Smith, another longtime San Diego County environmentalist who had worked on the desert act. The couple focused on finding more untrammeled parcels for the next wilderness push. “In 1994, we all celebrated . . . but we never let up,” said Smith, now executive director of The Escondido Creek Conservancy. In fits and starts, about 107 million acres nationwide have been classified as wilderness through the 1964 Wilderness Act. It's considered a permanent designation. Wilderness advocates survive political swings in part because they see the issue in moral terms, said Mark Harvey, a history professor at North Dakota State University and author of a book about the man who drafted the Wilderness Act. “From their point of view, wilderness preservation would manifest the highest commitment that human beings could have to land protection,” Harvey said. “These are some of the best landscapes we have and we need to protect them . . . for the integrity of our own souls.” By the late 1990s, hundreds of volunteers – including dozens from San Diego County – gathered under the umbrella of the California Wild Heritage Campaign and fanned out across the state to inventory roadless areas. People assigned to specific parcels became known as “adoptive parents” because they became so familiar with the lands they studied. “What's so special about the Wild Heritage Campaign is that we truly have done it from the ground up,” said Steve Evans, conservation director for Friends of the River, an advocacy group in Sacramento. “It wasn't done by lobbyists in D.C.” Smith said the survey crews focused on lands between the desert and mountain parcels already secured as wilderness. “What was left over are lands that are pretty close to urbanized areas,” Smith said. The wilderness alliance identified several million acres for further consideration, then turned its list over to Boxer's staff. “We could only hope and cross our fingers that most of the . . . acres would get through in the legislation. About half of them did,” Smith said. The conservationists hoped that excluding some of the potentially controversial parcels, particularly in congressional districts likely to draw opposition from lawmakers, would speed the bill's passage. Things didn't turn out that way. One challenge is that even some groups sympathetic to environmental protections remain skeptical of new wilderness areas. Among them are legions of outdoor enthusiasts represented by the International Mountain Bicycling Association, based in Boulder, Colo. “A lot more conservation could be accomplished if there wasn't a single-minded focus on the federal wilderness designation at the exclusion of other designations,” said Daniel Greenstadt, who represents the association in San Diego. “A wilderness proposal in some cases locks out the No. 1 user group,” he said. “It puts mountain bikers in a very difficult, unfortunate and unnecessary position. We care deeply about conservation, but we're asked to ban our own access to the backcountry.” Such sentiments are common to debates about wilderness. In San Diego County, most of the proposed wilderness land is in the district of Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine. The largest parcel is in the Eagle Peak area of the Cleveland National Forest, with smaller segments at Hauser Mountain, Carrizo Gorge and the Sawtooth Mountains. “Far too often, areas are given strict environmental designations that prevent outdoor and nature enthusiasts from enjoying our natural resources,” said a statement issued by Hunter's office. Boxer's statewide bill – she calls it a “marker” of her intentions – is likely to linger until there's a pro-wilderness president. The senator and others are focusing on areas with clear political support for wilderness designations. “I am a pragmatist,” Boxer said. “I will get done what I can get done.” Last year, for example, more than 273,000 acres of the Northern California coast gained wilderness status after Boxer teamed up with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena. In Riverside County, Rep. Mary Bono, R-Palm Springs, is preparing to submit a bill that would add about 125,000 acres to the wilderness list. Her staff is working out the details before it's introduced, likely in April or May. Meanwhile, Armstrong and Smith can be found tramping through the backcountry from as far away as Blythe, ground-truthing maps for potential wilderness additions. “We will just keep going . . . until these areas get protected,” Armstrong said. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Lee: (619) 542-4570; mike.lee@uniontrib.com

Unfortunately I won't be able to be at the Open House at SDBMW. I'll be lucky if I have time to just stop by.

From San Diego BMW.... Spring Open House, March 31 Why not check out the new models that BMW has launched during our Spring Open House ? You can test ride the new F800ST and see what an 800cc parallel twin feels like (exclusively counter-balanced, of course!) We'll have prizes and giveaways throughout the day including gift cards, Padres tickets and maybe even some special guest appearances. of course, an Open House wouldn't be the event that you've come to expect without the free food and drink now, would it. Of course we'll have a professional BBQ going to feed the hungry biking masses, and sodas to quench their thirst. PKD Foundation Poker Run and Kidney Kasino, April 14 We are very proud to be helping the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation with a Charity Poker Ride on April 14. Starting out at either the San Diego BMW Motorcycles store, or BMW Motorcycles of North County, you can take either a leisurely ride through San Diego County, or you can experience a little off-road riding with our 50/50 route. A BBQ lunch is provided in the middle, and at the end, at the Encinitas Ekl Lodge, enjoy a dinner and have some fun with the Kidney Kasino night. There will also be major prize giveaways from us throughout the night. For more information, see the PKD Poker Ride and Kidney Kasino website, and we hope you'll come out for the day and enjoy the ride, and then have fun with us at night. All the while supporting this most worthy of charities. San Diego BMW Contact Info phone: 619-286-1971 web: http://www.sdbmwmc.com Join our mailing list!

Richard Pombo would've been a great ally on our side, but was defeated....he only had $500,000 for his campaign, while (what I heard) the enviro groups threw $20 million at their candidates so they could defeat Pombo, because they were so afraid Pombo might get something realistic done with the Endangered Species Act and other issues. Another reason we need to try to defeat Boxer next election, with large amounts of money to the candidate on our side, hopefully we'll have a good candidate !!

Technically, not a ride report, but since this was our first time at Lobby Day, Cameron and I were along for the ride........... Attending Lobby Day was a first for Cameron and I from San Diego Adventure Riders. We flew up Monday morning and got a ride from the airport to the Capitol with a bunch of the folks from San Diego Off Road Coalition. We attended the breakfast where we saw our D37 AMA friends Kieth, Paul, and many others. After throwing some groceries down our necks, went to the orientation meeting, had some guest speakers who gave us some insight as to our fight and that we NEED to keep doing what we're doing.....and we will get things done in small increments and with time. Daphne Greene gave a motivational speech and then it was time to break up into small groups to visit with our legislators. We visited about 8 offices and met with either the representatives themselves, or their legislative staff. Of those, about 6 out of 8 were either OHV friendly or had at some time in their life been OHV'ers themselves. The others which were more towards the "green side" were courteous, listened to us and gave us their time. The finale was the food and beverages at the Sutter Club, really nice place....Kieth did a great description in his write-up of Lobby Yabba Dabba Doo Days. Here are some photos...... The State Capitol Pete Conaty of CLORV during orientation in the War Room Cameron Camp, Rider Rep and Webmaster for San Diego Adventure Riders, in front of the Governator's office Yours truly sleeping in front of Arnold's office Cameron as we "walked the halls" Another view of the Capitol from the other side.... At the Sutter Club....Senator Dave Cox getting an award for "Off Road Legislator of the Year" from CLORV.... Part of the D37 Crew....L to R, Kieth, Me, Jim Woods, and Cameron Dennis and Dan from D38 AMA and SDORC Scott Hillier from SDORC talking with a guy from "Friends of Giant Rock" Paul Flanders from D37 AMA on the right, standing with Dave Oakleaf Left to Right....Vicki and her son Chris from Temecula, Daphne Greene, Me and Cameron. The airport at 8:30pm in Sacramento was dead, here's the San Diego crew making a ruckus and having a good time...L to R...me, Amanda's friend, Amanda Cook, Ed Stovin, Vicki, Dennis and Scott I had a great day at Lobby Day, met a lot of people and got to put faces with many names who I've been talking with on forums and e-mails in the past. The day was very motivational and educational from a political standpoint, and reinforced the fact we have to keep working to keep our lands open, stay informed and stay in contact with our legislators. Another thing learned was after meeting your representatives and legislators, it's important to establish an ongoing, working relationship with them, especially where they have an office in your local area. We need to help keep them informed of the issues that affect us, and our opinions and concerns about issues and various Bills. I plan on attending more of these types of functions in the future, and hopefully some others will want to get involved also !! Here's a link to 2 other write-ups from Kieth (D37 AMA) and UncleCameron

It's Friday. When and where? So, who is going ? Me BackHoeDoc ? Sandiegoland ? Anyone else ? If it's us 3, I can drive, unless one of you wants to drive in a more economic car, I have an F150 with room for the 3 of us. PM me....Craig, I'll call you. Thanks,

Man, you are all coming up with some great comments, and they're all so true. Thanks for getting involved and putting some thought into it. Kevin and I have been discussing some other types of strategies, we'll keep you posted about those as soon as we have more info.....it will be in a "private forum".

From Kieth on the District 37 AMA Forum.... ---------------------------------------------------------- Lobby-dobby-yabba-dabba-doooooo-days! I just got back from lobby days. Paul Flanders, Bob Sacket, Jim Woods and family, Don Nay and family, Randy L. and Cameron Camp plus 120 other folks went up to Sacramento for this years event. We had a larger turnout than expected. We filled the meeting rooms to standing room only capacity. I think a couple clubs sent some of these folks up. If the rest of you clubs have the money, send a couple reps next year. Sunday afternoon started out with a primer for first timers and a refresher for us old salts. We found out we didn't have any bills to push this year, but we do have a bill we're following regarding the Commish and green sticker program. We'll see how the language develops in the coming weeks, then decide if we can get behind it. Sunday night 20 of us went to dinner and Woods tried to put 60 bucks worth of salads on the Cal 4x4 club bill but we got caught at the last second, it was worth a try. We hit the hay around 11 and got an early start Monday. After breakfast we had a slate of speakers come in and pump us up for walking the halls. The Legislators were very receptive this year. I was in a small group of 3 and we had warm receptions in all but one office we visited. We visited 8. Even the cooler office was courteous enough to listen to our pitch. The staffer meeting us actually wrote notes for the first 3 minutes then she stopped and just nodded. Believe me, this is progress when in the past, this Assemblyman said "just leave the material". We finished up the hall walking around 4 and we retreated to our war room to write up our evaluations and debriefings. Finally, it was time to retreat to the Sutter Club. This is the jacket and tie required club where the business of business gets busy. Plush high back leather chairs, high ceilings with chandeliers, wool floor coverings, neat artwork, and lots of pictures on the walls of past club presidents dating back to 1889. The crappers in the bathroom are like a walk in closet with a leather chair in 'em. Now that's livin'! I was a lil disappointed there wasn't a magazine rack though. The finger food spread was great and the mingling was super. We had some high placed VIP's come in and CORVA bestowed a few awards on some very helpfull lawmakers. We headed to the airport around 7ish and got on the plane for the long flight home. There was a very unruly group that kept the whole plane awake. Rumor has it the ring leaders were from Simi Valley. Randy Lazar has hit Dualsport like a Tsunami the past couple years. He's jumped in with both his feet and those of his club. It was great to have him up there spreading his enthusiasm in the halls of Sacramento. I think this was Naykid's(Don Nay) first trip also. It was encouraging to have new faces. __________________ Kieth LA-Barstow-Vegas Dualsport Coordinator

There will be motorcycle oriented vendors and merchandise, in addition to 4 Wheel Drive stuff. Can anyone from SDAR help man the SDORC booths at this show on March 24-25, they are short-handed.....you will help sign-up new members to SDORC, talk about importance of supporting these groups, and also help sell Raffle Tickets for the Sand Buggy that SDORC is giving away. ORBA Off Road Show FLYER ORBA Off Road Show Link....Press Release

If I work the show, it will be on Sunday, since we're going up to the BLM Meeting in Riverside on Saturday. I'll try to find out where SDORC needs help with the show. Thanks,

Welcome Parasitic !! Join the rides and all the other action, including helping support our sport in the Enviro / Land Use Forum. Look forward to meeting you soon.

A KTM 950 !! Well, if you don't mind riding a big bike. As Hammerin' said, he likes to spank others while he's on his red pig, but I like to spank little bikes while riding my BIG bikes Of course, most of you have yet to see that happen or even see me ride

Welcome to the forums, and a great group of people we have here !! Hope to meet and ride soon, and please join in to help keep our public lands open in the Environmental / Land Use Forum. Thanks !!

Vicki, thanks for joining us here !! It was a pleasure walking the halls of the Capitol with you and your son Chris. It was great to see you, a mom with her son, being involved and supporting your sport.....I saw how passionate you and your family are about riding, it is awesome !! And yes, we had a great team as we visited with our representatives. Thanks and look forward to chatting here, and seeing you again soon.

HoeDoc, thanks for the offer. We'll see how many people we get interested in attending the meeting as the week goes on. We'll do a roll call on Friday, I'm out of town to Vegas for Wed. & Thurs, may have internet access on Wed. nite to check in. Talk to you soon, and thanks for everyone's participation !!

I like the comments. Is there at least ONE other person who wants to carpool up with me on Saturday ?? C'mon, there's gotta be at least one out of over 300 of you who can make this, besides myself, Ride-Orange, and posibbly Sandiegoland. Come find out what meetings are about, meet other off-roaders and Dualsporters !! Join in the battle, if you don't......believe me, WE WILL LOSE IT ALL !! After what I heard from Legislators, Senators and people from all over the great state of California at Lobby Day, we are in serious jeopardy of losing more and more lands, a little bit at a time, until everyone, whether you ride motocross or just fire roads, will not have anywhere left to ride !!

Does anybody want to go up with me....Monday, March 19th to Sacramento Lobby Day in Sacramento LINK Would be great if a few of us from SDAR could take some time off to show support for our sport !! If you're interested but don't want to pay the $75, then San Diego Adventure Riders will cover your $75 fee for the entire Lobby Day (not including the Legislative Reception). If this doesn't motivate you to do get involved, any way you can, then I don't know what will !! Read this......what others are doing FOR US to keep our lands open !! GET INVOLVED ! Contact me if you want to join me in Sacramento...I will be driving up, probably Sunday night because it's a long drive. I may have to skip the March 18th Corral Canyon ride, because this is more important to me, or go ride and then drive up Sunday night ?? Randy (KTMrad) The Prez ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the CORVA website THE HEIST OF THE GREEN STICKER PROGRAM 2/24/2007 My name is Ed Waldheim, I am 68 years old resident of California City, California. I have been fighting for the rights of off roaders since 1978 when President Nixon signed the executive order to create the California Desert Conservation area. I have been commissioner two separate times for the OHV program appointed by two different Governors one Republican and one Democrat. I have been CORVA president for 14 years. We have created nine non-profits groups such as Friends of Jawbone, Friends of El Mirage, Friends of Oceano Dunes, Friends of Dumont, Friends of Kern County OHV Parks. Our groups groom trails with rented tractors, quads, rakes, sign trails with our volunteers. In 2006, I attended 221 meetings (see the calendar of meetings at www.corva.org under calendar) over the years I have driven hundreds of thousands of miles. My five month old Prius now has 24,900 miles on it, no joke. I do all this for free; I never get paid for anything. CORVA does not have a paid staff and no one gets paid except to get the newsletter out. We have a lobbyist in Washington DC, something no one else has except AMA national office, we have lobbyist in Sacramento and proud to be partners with Ecological group made up of ASA, ORBA, San Diego Off-Road Coalition, D-37 AMA and CORVA to have a full time attorney on staff. Why this note to you at Truckhaven. Mike Bishop from ACORVA, CTUC and CORVA has agreed to pass these flyers and newsletters out to everyone he can reach to tell you that we are in big trouble. Our OHV program, Green Sticker program has finally been hijacked the Environmental Zealots and do everything in their power to discredit the off road community. They tried to shut us down in Truckhaven with the CBD lawsuit. The only problem they came across is CORVA who stopped them cold. Go to our March ORIA newsletter or www.corva.org to get the full story. Today you are having fun in Truckhaven because our attorney on behalf of our 5 partners was able to beat the CBD in court. But that victory will not be long lived unless we keep up our side of the fight. Remember these guys never quit. They want to see us in the Pacific Ocean. They want to deny you and I our opportunity to ride and recreate. Make no bones about it. We are at war for our very survival of our sport! The commission has cut all funding for operation and maintenance. No agency received a dollar to fix trails, clean restrooms and many did not get enforcement money. Our OHV program comes up for reauthorization in Sacramento and bills by the Environmental Zealots are being introduced as we are introducing our bills. The fight is on. Now you, the off-road public have to step up and do you part. We at CORVA and other organizations . "We are the vehicle of representation and we need all of you to work on it to make it more powerful. In Sacramento we are of no consequence, for 15 years we get 100 people to come to lobby day. We should have 5000 people; block the streets, the hallways in Capitol Building. In other words we need to make sure that the legislators know that you exist out there .That you are real and that you are passionate about your sport. Up until now, we are not even on their radar screen, that fact is perfectly clear by the appointments they make to the commission all. They have finally taken over and killed our State of California OHV Program' Agencies are now trying to figure out how to pay staff to keep areas open. If you think this does not affect you think again. March 19, 2007 Monday in Sacramento, we need every single person who rides off-road, and who is at Truckhaven this weekend and at the Tierra Del Sol event in Ocotillo Wells to come to Sacramento. Take vacation time, take sick time, car pool to Sacramento, ask your club to pay for your gas, borrow money whatever be there. If you are not there, CORVA and all the other organizations will be hard pressed to save our sport. To date, they have done a good job on us, why?...because of our total apathy to the political process. Truckhaven was saved this time; but will you be there to help us on the next round with donations, with membership, with manpower to protect your sport? As of 2-22-07 the CBD filed an 60-day Notice of Intent to Sue claiming that OHV activities at Truckhaven are causing a "take" of Peninsular Bighorn Sheep in violation of Section 9 of the Endangered Species Act. As you can see, they are using "science" to prove their point. I cannot stress enough how important it is that we ramp up on the technical side so that we can challenge their claims. If we don't, consider Truckhaven closed for the indefinite future. This is war. We can either adapt or fight back with equal fire-power; or we can go home and stay there. We need you in Sacramento, no excuses; we need every single member of clubs, play riders, anyone who recreates in California needs to be in Sacramento. Join us in Sacramento on March 19, 2007 Registration is on CLORV Website By the way, if you're interested but don't want to pay the $75, then San Diego Adventure Riders will cover your $75 fee for the entire Lobby Day

Excellent, easy way of supporting our sport.....please read and use this Search Engine to help support SDORC.... The San Diego Off Road Coalition is a non-profit group that raises money to fight for our rights as off-road land users. More and more off-road areas are being closed and what we have left available to us is a constant battle to keep open. So here’s something really easy you can do to help raise money to support the SDORC. GoodSearch is a search engine powered by Yahoo that donates money to non-profits. SDORC is now set up with them, so every time someone uses GoodSearch and designates SDORC, a penny is donated. I know a penny doesn’t seem like much, but think about how often you use Yahoo & Google. The more people know about this, the more we can help and raise money. The website is http://www.goodsearch.com then enter SDORC as the organization. For anyone wanting more info on what SDORC does or to verify this info, their website is http://www.sdorc.org Thanks and please pass this info along

In my opinion.......just my opinion. I'd rather support local shops and doesn't matter to me that the internet is easier. I'd rather interact with people at a shop that I trust and have a good relationship with. I purchase almost all of my merchandise at various shops locally and get good discounts at each shop since I've been a customer with them for years. I'm happy we now have another local shop that sells KTM, Motoworld....now I can order my parts there instead of over the internet.....and with my 20% SDORC discount, it's the best price around !!

We need more people like this on our side.......nice article in a newspaper about the POSITIVE aspect of OHV people............... Excellent article here Please send a thank you to the author if you can. The entire thread is HERE at Race Dezert Forums.....

Welcome to our Forums, Chuck. You're way out east there.....hope you can come west and ride with us some in the desert. Hope to meet you soon,

I was told Cycle Parts West will have a booth at this show, with lots of Dirt Gear at GREAT PRICES.....so come on down, support your sport, see the different vendors, and get some dirt gear at great prices.

From another excellent forum and source of info.....Race Dezert Forums The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions, issued a press release late Monday: Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy. Gore’s mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES). In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home. The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average. Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359. Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006. Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year. “As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson. In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006. For Further Information, Contact: Nicole Williams, (615) 383-6431 editor@tennesseepolicy.org

If you belong to SDORC, you get a 20% discount off almost all merchandise at Motoworld. See store for details. Just another reason to join SDORC !!