More Inconvenient Truths
Shame on Al Gore!!! Read on:
Here's another example of do as I say, not as I do, brought to you by a leading Democrat! (Once again verified as true by my friends at snopes.com.)"LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU
CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN 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 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.
So whose house is gentler on the environment? Yet another story you
WON'T hear on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC or read about in the New York Times or
the Washington Post. Indeed, for Mr. Gore, it's truly "an inconvenient truth."
Thoughts anyone?
2 comments:
Gore bought an 80yr old house and turned it green. That's the real truth behind his home.
Gores' 10K sqft is not a McMansion. 4-5K sqft is a fairly common home size. Gores' is only twice as large as that, and they both have their home offices there.
It turns out that their per cubic foot energy use is about average for their region. In addition, they purchase green energy blocks to support renewable energy infrastructure in the TN valley area. And, their entire Carbon footprint is carbon-offset on top of that. They've solarized their roof, and are working on installing a geothermal climate system and other improvements.
Given that tearing an old house down to build a new one would likely contribute a large amount of CO2 and other pollution from the materials and construction, renovating their existing home and turning it green is a better approach, which is exactly what they are doing.
Thanks.
The house of George is his wife's domain. I don't know about Al's house but the house does not define who is greener. So yes, Al may not be as he would have us think but George is not an Environmentalist or a Conservative.
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