Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”

Tennessee Center for Policy Research ^ | February 26, 2007 | TN center for policy research

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

Let me guess, the Pantsuit released this juicy tidbit today.

Interesting. Maybe she is trying to preempt alore from entering. Hussein is enough of a thorn already.

[Zeppo]

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).

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...

[BenLurkin]

'Carbon footprints' are for the little people.

[Jeff Head]

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.

[Robert DeLong]

He has a DeLorean DMC-12 with a flux capacitor?

[GovernmentShrinker]

Keep trying. It's "anointed".

[TChris]

Paging Ann Coulter!

The title for your next book:

Hypocrisy

It's a book just begging to be written.

[GovernmentShrinker]

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.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

algore's carbon footprint:

Sorry, my mistake. That's algore's real footprint.

[Jeff Head]

hehehe...oh well. I stand by the original posted message though.

[DesertSapper]

What a surprise! A liberal tree-hugging politician who won't walk-the-walk.

What am I talking about? Heck, most of the supposedly "conservative" politicians don't walk-the-walk either.

[Between the Lines]

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.

[andyandval]

This man is a joke.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

They want the rest of us to live in caves.

[popdonnelly]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Soon to be front page news in the New York Times, I'm sure. A word to all the global warming groupies: SUCKAHS!

[bigbob]

you gotta wonder, how much of this is used to cook the groceries him and "Little" Al are packin' away...

[Jeff F]

221,000 kWh sure is a lot of power for this humble abode.

[popdonnelly]

"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.

[HawaiianGecko]

Lord knows I'm not a defender of Al Gore, but too many people seem to think that if a liberal uses more energy than a homeless person living in a refrigerator box, then they are a hypocrite.  If using 20 times the energy of an average person gets 100 people to cut their energy usage in half, then he technically has saved a net of 30 average people uses, or in short is generating energy.

I know it's fun to bash Al Gore, but doing it mindlessly is not much better than people bashing Bush.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

Just looked inside the DUmpster. Not a peep (yet). I will give it another 24 hrs.