Posted on 02/26/2007 2:25:06 PM PST by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth” Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average
Last night, Al Gore’s 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.
Gore’s 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 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.
Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling 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, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.
Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.
Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s 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.
Interesting. Maybe she is trying to preempt alore from entering. Hussein is enough of a thorn already.
Hmmm... Wonder how that information is public. Does it have anything to do with NES being a public utility, and therefore subject to freedom-of-information requests, or something else?
Interestingly, when I looked at the Nashville Electric Service home page, the first section that caught my eye was titled, "NES Warns Customers About Con Artists", although the article itself was not about Al Gore...
'Carbon footprints' are for the little people.
The first one was a typo, the scond was just going too fast. Oh well...the essence of the message is SPOT ON despite the typos.
He has a DeLorean DMC-12 with a flux capacitor?
Keep trying. It's "anointed".
The title for your next book:
It's a book just begging to be written.
One can only hope that this exercise will be repeated for the humongous John Edwards estate that's currently under construction. Not sure if any part of it is occupied yet, but if we're lucky the utility bills will start rolling in before the 2008 election.
Sorry, my mistake. That's algore's real footprint.
hehehe...oh well. I stand by the original posted message though.
What am I talking about? Heck, most of the supposedly "conservative" politicians don't walk-the-walk either.
Don't forget also that in 2002 Bush had installed at the White House its first ever solar electric system, including putting 167 solar electric panels on the roof of the maintenance building, and two solar thermal systems to heat the pool and spa and provide domestic hot water. The photovoltaic system feeds electricity into the White House grounds' distribution system, supplementing the complex's power supply.
They want the rest of us to live in caves.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Soon to be front page news in the New York Times, I'm sure. A word to all the global warming groupies: SUCKAHS!
you gotta wonder, how much of this is used to cook the groceries him and "Little" Al are packin' away...
221,000 kWh sure is a lot of power for this humble abode.
"They are more than ready to preach conservation and environmentalism but don't seem to get around to it themselves."
Yes, I've noticed that liberals are always willing to have anybody but themselves make sacrifices.
Just looked inside the DUmpster. Not a peep (yet). I will give it another 24 hrs.
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