March 4, 2008
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WHO’S THE ENVIRONMENTALIST?
House #1
A 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool ( and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern ‘snow belt’ area. It’s in the South.
House #2
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every ‘green’ feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet ( 4 bedrooms ) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.
The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.
HOUSE #1 is in the Belle Meade district of Nashville, Tennessee; it is the abode of the ‘environmentalist’ Al Gore.
HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas; it is the residence the of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.
For Al Gore, this is truly an ‘inconvenient truth’.
I’ve checked this on Snopes.com and it’s TRUE
Al Gore defends his extraordinary personal energy usage by telling critics he maintains a “carbon neutral” lifestyle by buying “carbon offsets,” but the company that receives his payments turns out to be partly owned and chaired by the former vice president himself.
Gore has built a green money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including himself, but he set it up so that the average Joe can’t afford to play on Gore’s terms.
Gore has described the lifestyle he and his wife Tipper live as “carbon neutral,” meaning he tries to offset any energy usage, including plane flights and car trips, by “purchasing verifiable reductions in CO2 elsewhere.”
But it turns out he pays for his extra-large carbon footprint through Generation Investment Management, a London-based company with offices in Washington, D.C., for which he serves as chairman. The company was established to take financial advantage of new technologies and solutions related to combating “global warming.”
Hypocrite!
Comments (6)
Of course the second house is environmentalist but I am not sure the money necessary to build it is environmentalist and even simply humane .( to verify the source of the money )
In friendship
Michel
Hypocrite indeed!
touche
Gore has always been a real piece of work – from an ex Tennessee resident
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If you’re not sure then why bring it up. Are you sure Al Gore is truly trying to make a difference? if not then why not bring that up?
Try being equal with your distain.
I does not see what the previous commenter meant ? Is the second part of your post exixted when I commented . Anyway I have nothing to say about Politic in US being French . I considered only the two houses .
Sorry , for this misenterstood
In friendship
Michel
Good topical post, Paul. Here in the UK I am getting seriously fed up with the whole “global warming” scam. Politicians have seized on this as a heaven-sent opportunity to tax us all into hypothermic recluses, while jetting around themselves with impunity. On the topic of posting, I have got a bit idle lately, although I have been on Grandkids duty a lot more than normal, which means I can’t get on to my own computer ! You, on the other hand, are rapidly becoming prolific !