Hollywood, Al Gore, David Suzuki and now the BC's New Democrats have all joined the ranks of green hypocrisy. As one NDP critic calls for immediate greenhouse gas reduction targets, another introduces a private member's bill to regulate and cap gasoline prices. Gasoline-the fossil fuel used for most vehicles on the road-emits greenhouse gases, right The NDP wants to cap gas prices so motorists can continue to fuel up and emit nasty greenhouse gases affordably! Hmmm, something just doesn't make sense here: cap emissions and gas prices

Or, perhaps, it makes perfect sense. It seems commonplace for those all abroad the green bandwagon to preach one thing but practice another.

Take David Suzuki's wagon, a green-house gas spewing bus for eight people, used to tour the country and lecture about the impending environmental crisis caused by greenhouse gases from vehicles like his own bus. And how does Suzuki pay for all those fossil fuels used for his mobile earth destroyer

According to his foundation's annual report, donations come from Encana, a key developer in Suzuki's despised oil-sands project in Alberta. Other big corporations that fund Suzuki's Tour of Sanctimony include: Toyota (yes the automobile manufacturer), the Bank of Montreal, Scotia Capital, Microsoft and RBC. But I am sure their environmental footprints are acceptable as long as they continue to donate to Suzuki and his fuel tank.

Suzuki's own footprint is bigger than most consumers. With more than one house to look after, constant and unnecessary flights around the world, Suzuki is doing more than his share of activities that, in his view, are destroying mother earth. His foundation estimates it's responsible for 150 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year. But it's okay, because they buy carbon "off-sets." Isn't that paying to pollute Hmm.

Al Gore is on no higher ground when it comes to preachin' green. Despite Gore's apocalyptic warnings of global warming from excessive human consumption and fossil fuels, he doesn't use available green energy to heat either of his homes. Local utilities near both houses (one in Nashville, the other in Washington, DC) offer wind energy as an alternative for a few cents extra per kilowatt hour but Gore has yet to make the switch.

Yes, Americans are inordinate consumers, he warns from his 10,000 square foot, 20-room, eight bathroom home in Nashville! This is the same property that had an active zinc mine on it up until 2003. A mine that paid Gore royalties close to $20,000 per year. Then there's Gore's family investments in Occidental Petroleum. As executor he has the power to use alternate investments, but doesn't.

The lesson: don't trust a messenger who doesn't believe himself! If Suzuki, Gore and now BC's NDP don't practice what they preach, ask yourself: do they believe it, or are they just cashing in on green politics