Posted on 02/26/2007 2:25:06 PM PST by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
Al Gores Personal Energy Use Is His Own Inconvenient Truth Gores home uses more than 20 times the national average
Last night, Al Gores global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.
Gores mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).
In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.
The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWhmore than 20 times the national average.
Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWhguzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gores average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.
Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gores energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.
Gores extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gores mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.
As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use, said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.
In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.
A conservation is for the little people bump.
Algore looks like they surgically implanted a tire valve in his belly button and pumped him up to 120 psi......
He's a glutton in more ways than one.
Cheers!
The passive-solar house is positioned to absorb winter sunlight, warming the interior walkways and walls of the residence. Geothermal heat pumps circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet (100 m) deep in the ground. A 40,000 US gallon (151 m³) underground cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof urns; wastewater from sinks, toilets, and showers cascades into underground purifying tanks and is also funneled into the cistern. The water from the cistern is then used to irrigate the landscaping around the four-bedroom home.
In a brief ceremony held yesterday in his home state of Texas, President George W. Bush was named recipient of the annual Environmental Conservation Award by the Environmental Assessment League (EAL), for his outstanding work in the field of conservation as Governor of Texas and in his first few months as U.S. President. The award winner is selected each year through an extensive survey of environmentalists and scientist who assess the impacts and success/failure of programs and projects implemented during each administration. Among the survey of 20th century US Presidents, Bush narrowly beat out Ronald Reagan for the top spot, while Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Bill Clinton received the lowest marks for environmental achievement. ...
Hello, Kettle? This is Al... you're black!
Can't be using it to heat his house.
Bull$hit is exothermic.
How much gas is wasted because of the extra weight his fat carcass puts on the car?
Liberals are so cute when they're angry.
Maybe there was an extention cord all the way to John Edwards Mansion to feed his power needs.
Maybe there was an extention cord all the way to John Edwards Mansion to feed his power needs.
You're acting like a jerk. You don't have to forward my comment to anyone. I thought it was very funny.
Ummm. I don't want to forward your post because it looks like the work of a child.
Inconvenient Truth
You and your rich friends have some nerve
to lecture me about how much fuel an SUV burns,
and how I should turn off every light in the house
and walk around in the dark each night,
and how I should recycle and conserve and go green
and keep my energy footprint small.
You sound so sincere that Im almost ready
to believe your inconvenient truth
and sell my car and take that guilt trip ride
on the city bus.
And then I learn that your Bigfoot power bill
costs more in a month that I spend in ten,
and that your private jet burns more fuel on one trip
than my car does in a year,
and how you and your politician and entertainment friends
(paper plate Emmys and all)
are flying around the world like swarming gnats
on a swamp, looking for votes or cash or pats on the back.
So let me understand:
Im supposed to turn my A.C. off and sweat all night,
keep the lights down low and take the filthy metro,
while its ok for you and yours to waste?
Im glad to know youre thinking about me and mine
and the future of my kids, and as you say, its about morality.
But you and yours are saving the world
for Democracy and Hollywood and Wall Street
and whatever other cause your celebs tout these days,
and Im just a back room teacher/poet struggling to get by.
It almost makes me want to cry to see how much you care.
But poets run on hydrocarbon fuel as well:
we need it for our laptops and our ink,
and not all caged birds sing
some of us shout and it may not be what you want to hear.
So Ill listen to you with a grain of salt,
you and your inconvenient truth
but until youre ready to come down to earth and walk the walk
you can preach to me all day long and through the night,
and when Im cold Ill turn up the heat
and when I write Ill keep the light up burning bright
and if I could afford a gas-guzzling SUV
I wouldnt give it up for you.
James Arthur Anderson
Nice name for the picture. Isn't that what the world is all about ? :)
In California, we have the super rich limo fat cat liberals who own massive homes, limos, private jets and want the rest of us to freeze in the winter and burn up in summer and eat recycled food.
So this fat cat is a good symbol. I need someone to replace the beer with a bottle of champagne.
al gore is a joke
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