I am with you concerning Al Gore, who is being urged ever more loudly by an ever-larger number of Americans to join the presidential race (“Gore in the Balance,” June 2, 2007). He should not run, mainly because he is less likely to be effective in his fight against America’s gas-guzzling ways as a president then as a free-lance proselytizer. And this is the mother of all fights at this juncture. Issues much less important than climate change would bog him down in no time. And so would the mores of the vaunted office. This is a rare moment in America’s history when real power is likely to lie outside rather than inside the political establishment. Given that Americans are the greatest gas-guzzlers of them all, and given that Gore has been harboring presidential ambitions since his youth, we can only hope that he will appreciate this peculiar historical twist. Being a politician deep down, he simply must.