Since 2000, according to published reports noted by Newsweek, the former veep has transformed himself from a public servant with around $1 million in the bank to a sparkling private consultant with a net worth estimated to be north of $100 million. He's a senior adviser to Google, a board member at Apple and now a newly minted general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm that made billions investing early in Netscape, Amazon and Google.
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Gore's relationship with KP is perhaps the strongest signal yet that his days in politics are over. The firm is notoriously secretive about its finances, and it's unlikely that KP would strike a deal with Gore if the association could subject the firm to public scrutiny.

And you thought Al was just a concerned humanitarian. Being green today is about as tough as John Edwards suing the tobacco industry. Some things the public is ready for and politicians and attorneys are always ready to capitalize on them.