That's super!

Al Gore must be tired of his proletariat hybrid cars.  He needs something fancier, something that proudly announces to the world:  I am an unstoppable douchebag!  Enter the “Karma”, $90,000 luxury green car for the truly discerning eco-elitist.

Fortunately for the Oscar-winning Nobel laureate, connections with the government will get you a big heap of taxpayer money to fund whatever industrial lark you can dream up.  This comes in the form of a $528.7 million dollar loan to Fisker Automotive, a luxury green carmaker funded in part by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, a firm at which Al Gore is a parter.  Isn’t government money handy when you want to make huge, risky equity investments?

From the Inconvenient Truth website:

Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.

Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged:

Capitalists with government help…the worst of all economic phenomenon.