Gore stumps in Berkeley for oil production tax

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Former Vice President Al Gore, calling global warming a worldwide crisis that requires immediate attention, urged Californians on Monday to approve Proposition 87, the ballot initiative to tax oil production to fund alternative fuel development.

In an energetic speech in Berkeley before hundreds of people at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, Gore likened global warming to other major crises of the day, including the genocide in Darfur, poverty in the developing world, and the degradation of forests and oceans.

Global warming offers an opportunity "to have a shared moral purpose compelling enough to rise above our limitations," Gore said in the conclusion of his nearly half-hour speech during a campaign rally he led. "To take destiny in our own hands and by rising to meet this climate crisis, we can identify these other crises as moral issues. ... And I'll tell you where it starts. It starts right here in the state of California when you pass Proposition 87."

To Al Gore it's a religion.Just another excuse for the government to regulate your life.In other news,no word yet on why Chicago is having one of its'coldest October's ever.