Gore’s Mansion vs Eco-Friendly Bush Home
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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 ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern “snow belt,” either. 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 contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid 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 winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the 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. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.
HOUSE #1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville,Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.
HOUSE #2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as “the Texas White House,” it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.
HT: Melissa
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March 23rd, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Are we surprised people? The hypocritical democraps spew nonsense about global warming and it means nothing except scaring people half to death and getting their votes.
Dems are all eveil Big Brothers/Sisters–they are the neo-Mansonites
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:36 pm
How much energy does Bush waste flying back and forth to his ranch?
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Adam do not be an idiot! I would love to see his flight costs compared to most of Hollywood though that might be good. Then again if he is working i do not see a problem.
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:14 pm
How much energy does Gore waste flying back and forth between global warming presentations? Or driving a dozen limos a few blocks down the road?
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Well… it appears that the Gore supporters will blindly accept anything that their guru says or does. This is true even if it is in direct contradiction to his directions on how everyone else should live.
The fact that he is making tons of money by his preaching just adds to the irony.
I think the word is duplicitous.
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Adam, President Bush isn’t the one holding himself up as an environmental god, nor is he the one claiming to somehow live a “carbon-neutral” lifestyle. Manbearpig is clearly quite a hypocrite, although this is not a surprise coming from the moonbat left.
March 23rd, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Do I think Gore’s house is ridiculously big? Yes.
But Gore buys “green energy.” That’s costs much more than regular energy from coal, natural gas, nuclear, etc. That’s part of the reason his energy bill is so high. Al Gore is not my savior, but to not mention that is misleading and irresponsible.
March 23rd, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Being powered by natural gas doesn’t mean that’s what he pays for, because not all regions can sustain wind energy, etc. His money instead goes to build green energy sources in regions that can.
March 24th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Logan, you have no idea what you’re talking about. Al Gore did not start buying “green” energy until Nov. 2006 even though it has been available in his area for years. And it’s not just the cost , it’s the AMOUNT of energy he uses that is outrageous compared to the average american household.
March 25th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Logan, Mr. Gore’s concept of green energy is to buy “energy credits”, worthless promises which pass sacrifices along to the average American. I cannot call myself a fan of his–I deplore hypocrites of all political stripes, be they gas-guzzling “environmentalists” or unfaithful “family values” proponents.
March 25th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
The quality of argument exhibited by all parties here, including the original poster, is so low as to eliminate the possibility of anyone getting any value from this discussion. Do any of you have the ability to post real, complete infromation with real references and links, or are you just a bunch of blowhards, left and right, impressing each other with your windiness?
March 26th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Clean energy credits aren’t “worthless promises which pass sacrifices along to the average american.” They offset your dirty energy by subsidising someone else’s clean energy. They allow people to assist clean energy development with the efficiency of the free market.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
What nonsense. “Offsetting” someone’s dirty energy by obtaining a promise from the energy companies to counterbalance that total with clean energy somewhere else (and I personally find that promise to be somewhat dubious) hardly seems the most productive course to limiting it, don’t you think? Mr. Gore has missed the point entirely. Energy credits will never change the amount of dirty energy he is using–only conservation on his part will achieve that. Any step toward counteracting the prevalence of dirty energy in our country must be founded on a paradigm shift away from the careless wastefulness our current leadership, in their ignorance of our own history, champions as the American way. Without this shift in attitude, the very “efficiency of the free market” you extol will ensure the continuation of our dependence on oil, as it is cheaper and considered more dependable (in the short term) than renewable energy.
People can already assist the cause of reducing dirty energy emissions, and they can do it without having to buy anything. They can exercise the public power to reduce demand by conserving energy. When the demand goes down, only then will the supply follow suit. That is the real power of the free market.
March 26th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
you poor fools that believe al gore. he could care less about the environment. he is looking for power. he thinks he is smarter and better than the average american. everything he does is for the good of mankind. he is a laying fool. if he really cared, he would be a responsible person and take a horse to all his meetings. or a donkey because that is what he is an jackass.
March 30th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Think what you will about Al Gore, but his movie is the real deal. Don’t fool yourself.
I think ol’ Bush wasn’t thinking green. He was thinking of a house that will survive WWIII.
April 1st, 2007 at 1:34 pm
The figures in this article are totally absurd and dishonest. A little common sense is what the blivers need.
I’ll bet that the house described doesn’t even exist. It’s interesting that there is no photo of the Gore home, with this story. But I’m sure that there some SMOOTH explanations for that omission.
The most effective mithod of discrediting the messsage is to discredit the messanger; providing the discrediting is crediable.
Paul E. Steffen
P O Box 488
Milford, Indiana
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:02 am
The Great Global Warming Swindle. A special produced by th BBC… Awesome rebuttal to people with “Okay’s” mindset…
Part One… It’s politics, not science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6IPHmJWmDk
Part Two… Warming is natural… when it happens there is abundance, not apocalypse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S1DujZ8P98&NR
Part Three… warming causes CO2, not the other way around…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whwgq3Y59WE&NR
Part Four… the sun causes a warming climate…who’d have thought?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyj5oX83PlA&NR
Part Five…Anti-capitalism; Popular in the media = $$$ for research
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HA_omTEx-Q&NR
Part Six…dramatic results get press… accurate results, not so much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZvvSp2CAnQ&NR
Part Seven… You don’t agree?!?!?… you MUST be paid by “Big Oilâ€â€¦(Plus, if you’re right I will lose my job).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Di4DxHG4c&NR
Part Eight… precaution theory = no 3rd world electricity = peasant life sucks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlvBnLa7r2I&NR
April 10th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
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April 18th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
“c’est” - sorry.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Wake up everyone……Al Gore owns the Company that sells “Energy Credits”.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Whoa, my post got swallowed up in the “moderation” process somewhere - I didn’t think it was that bad…?
May 5th, 2007 at 6:07 am
Gore has taken a page out of the homosexual activist playbook — divert, deny, ignore and look pious even while continuing to live as self-indulgently he/they have always lived — and the public be damned.
October 12th, 2007 at 10:31 am
And you have not even considered all of the petro-chemicals it takes to keep Al’s hair slicked down. Or does he use whale blubber. Bald is beautiful, and cooler.