March 28, 2009 11:20 AM
Gore vs. Bush: Environmentalist hypocrisy
From Anne:
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 per month. 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 drawin g 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.
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HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; < BR>it is the abode of the 'environmentalist' Al Gore.HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas;
An 'inconvenient truth.'
it is the residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.
You can verify it at : http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
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Comments
I've seen this before, and read the Snopes article, too. (I always check when emails say, "Snopes said it's true!" because sometimes that's a lie to keep you from checking.) I'm honestly not at all surprised that Bush's ranch is eco-friendly. After all, he was a businessman and there is plenty of money to be saved (and made!) in real green solutions. My husband works in the IT industry, and he tells me that "green" computing is big because it saves big bucks.
I don't know what is up with Al Gore, though. Seems like you'd have to be a True Believer to keep insisting the nonsense he claims, but then he has this wasteful lifestyle. So what's his game? If he's trying to win the adulation of the press and public he's not doing a great job -- most people I know think he's a joke.
Posted by: Michelle Potter | March 28, 2009 5:26 PM
Very interesting!
Posted by: evergreen | March 28, 2009 10:02 PM
