Gore home's energy use: 20 times average

WorldNetDaily ^ | 2/26/07 | WorldNetDaily

[wagglebee]

 

Al Gore

Al Gore deserves an Oscar for hypocrisy to go along with the two Academy Awards his movie won last night, contends a think tank from his home state Tennessee.

The former vice president's mansion in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, says the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, citing data from the Nashville Electric Service.

Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth, a 95-minute film warning of a coming cataclysm due to man-made "global warming," won the award for best documentary feature and best song.

"My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis," Gore said after taking the stage. "It's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act. That's a renewable resource. Let's renew it."

Standing with Gore on the stage last night, actor Leonardo DiCaprio said, to applause, "The American film industry has always taken its obligations to society very seriously and it's now stepping up once again. Tonight, we're proud to announce that for the first time in the history of the Oscars, this show has officially gone green.

Gore then followed with, "Which means that environmentally intelligent practices have been integrated fully into every aspect of the planning and production of these Academy Awards. And you know what: It is not as hard as you might think. We have a long way to go. But all of us can do something in our own lives to make a difference."

But according to the Tennessee think tank, while the average American household consumed 10,656 kilowatt-hours last year, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 – more than 20 times the national average.

Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson said that "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."

Last August alone, according to Johnson' group, Gore burned through 22,619 kilowatt-hours of electricity, more than twice the amount in one month that an average American family uses in an entire year.

Gore's average monthly electric bill, the think tank says, is $1,359.

Since the release of Gore's film, the former vice president and presidential candidate's energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kilowatt-hours per month in 2005, to 18,400 per month in 2006.

The Tennessee group also points out natural gas bills for Gore's mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.

Gore paid a total of nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.

Responding to critics, Gore has described the lifestyle he and his wife Tipper live as "carbon neutral," meaning he tries to offset any plane flight or car trip by "purchasing verifiable reductions in CO2 elsewhere."

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Grow lamps consume alot of electricity

You don't need grow lamps in Tennessee in August.

[rollo tomasi]

During the recount saga I remember reading an article about Gore "needing" to shower at least 5 times a day or more (Do not know the exact number but it was abnormal).

I guess people like Gore don't mind living without a conscience. Or maybe, just too busy rolling in $$$ to even care about their hypocrisy.

The people I am irritated with are the useful idiots who vote for people like this.

[razorback-bert]

I once lived in Nashville and know Belle Meade well, I was referring to the unibomber.

[Carolinamom]

I hear that he also has another house in California.

[claudiustg]

---In the back yard, around the patio and the extra-long pool, where Al and Tipper do laps---

Yeah, whatever.

[HereInTheHeartland]

http://carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=3848

John Edwards also. It's nice to know they are for the "working man"

[chiefqc]

All bull sh*t he spews is for the little people in America, not for the self important phoney like himself.

What a large bag of wind and a phoney.

[antiunion person]

This is just the typical liberal' actions. Their favorite saying is "DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO". I hope this hypocritical bastard chokes on his awards.

[AzNASCARfan]

Can you explain carbon credits to me?? If the goal is a zero carbon footprint, who produces enough negative carbon that they can sell the credits??

Damn he spends more than half of what I make a month on Electric and Gas alone... and mine is supporting a family of 5 and we used less kw hours last year than he did last August!

[antiunion person]

What a large bag of wind and a phoney.

Great idea, chiefqc. We should build enormous wind farms just off the coast from the Kennedy compound, down the street from fat boy Al Gore's house and all around Washington DC where the biggest wind bags work.

[Alas Babylon!]

Everyone of us should get down on our knees and thank God Algore didn't become president!

I don't care how it happened; elected, selected, or a military coup, but getting Bush in and not Gore was a gift from the Father Himself.

Also, it's nice to see the dems (like David Remnick) continue to get all flustered about it. It's the little things in life like this that makes it so worthwhile.

[RightField]

Can you explain carbon credits to me?? If the goal is a zero carbon footprint, who produces enough negative carbon that they can sell the credits??

I have no idea either. This article explains it all. Please read and report back to the rest of us, lol.

[o_zarkman44]

My house is all electric with central air. Now in the winter time when it is cold I use the wood furnace and it cuts the electric bill to 80 to 90 bucks. Without the wood furnace the bill will run $180. Dec 22 to Jan 22 we used 1684 KW. Mostly because we were gone several days during that period and the wood furnace wasn't operating.

Summer time with the A/C is rarely $160 a month and my wife likes the house cold!

If algore is so concerned about the environment he should lead rather than lecture.

[o_zarkman44]

a carbon credit is a tax. nothing more. nothing solved
and even more worrisome is who controls the tax.

Hollywood should be a good place to start collecting the tax if they are really concerned about the environment.

[NCC-1701]

By golly, you're right.

[cpdiii]

algore is starting to look like Herman Goering

No, more like Jabba The Hud from Star Wars, but not as attractive. :)

[cpdiii]

My house is all electric and I have a high efficiency heat pump. I heat and cool about 2000 square feet. My average electrical bill for the year is 190 bucks a month. All the lights in my house are fluorescent. I am considering a ground loop system heat exchange. When the economics of it are break even it will be installed. I go green based on economics and what it costs me, and nothing else. When Al Gores Carbon Foot Print equals mine I will will become a Demonic Rat. That "aint gonna" happen.

PS
Global Warming is real, it comes from the sun, not CO2. If history is any proper record we have no idea if we are in a warming period of on the verge of a cooling period. If we are on the beginning of a true warming period and the ice caps do really melt civilization will be the better for it. Vast areas of land will be available for cultivation and civilizations expansion. The rising sea levels will be very very slow over many centuries and we will simply move in accordance with the sea. Buildings will not succumb to rising sea levels as they will be centuries old when it happens and long gone before the sea covers that area if it happens which is in great doubt.

The big winners in global warming if it happens are Russia and Canada. They would become the bread basket of the world.

[magellan]

"Um, wouldn't this be TVA electricity, as in water turbine energy....as in another green source of energy not derived from fossil fuels? Just asking."

In addition to a lot of hydroelectric plants and 3 nuke plants, TVA runs 13 fossil fuel burning power plants. See:

http://www.tva.gov/sites/sites_ie2.htm

[TheLion]

He spends about 25 times more than I do in energy. Maybe he should be a country. I was dismayed last night how much Leonardo DiCaprio, whom I admire as an actor, sucked up to this nonsense.

[Delta 21]

Over a hundred carbon footprints, BUMP.