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Barr praises Gore’s work on climate change |
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By Beth Sussman
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Posted: 07/17/08 03:10 PM [ET] |
Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr praised Al Gore on Thursday for his commitment to addressing climate change and said he has met with the former vice president several times to discuss possible solutions.
In a speech Thursday at Constitution Hall in Washington, Gore said that he has also discussed climate change with presidential candidates Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
Both McCain and Obama believe that action needs to be taken on global warming and have separately criticized the Bush administration for its approach on the issue.
Barr said he believes the most effective energy solution will be “market-based” and characterized by “free enterprise.”
“There obviously is a role for government,” Barr said. “There’s a role for private industry. There’s a role for nonprofits and certainly a role for the American people, individually and collectively.”
Barr, a former Republican congressman from Georgia, said it is time to recognize that global warming “is a very serious problem” and that it will get “dramatically worse” unless significant action is taken.
Gore attacked the energy solutions provided by President Bush, who lifted an executive ban on offshore oil drilling this week.
“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 10 years from now,” Gore said. |
