Is George Bush a Closet Green?

treehugger.com ^ | 02.19.07 | Lloyd Alter

[kinoxi]

Your numbers are so offensive. You must have failed the last re educational camp. You can count with me next time correct?

[maine-iac7]

I would call it common sense. I know a lot of Conservatives who think the same way including me. It is called independance and not relying on others and for emergency situations.

yep. Common sense - and living in an arid area makes it doubly so.

As to the 4000 sq ft - Not surprising, knowing the Bushes and their values. They don't feel the need to prove anything to anyone...they are just good, decent, down-to-earth people with their values on straight.

Unlike the last people in the White House, they don't take their vacations in Martha's Vineyard or Palm Beach, etc - and don't feel the need of a mansion - (or a castle, as slick willy was once looking into in Europe,) to make them feel they are important.

The Bushes are simply living the way people should who live in a water starved area - you don't waste it if you want to continue having it.

[maine-iac7]

got that right!

[ohioWfan]

President Bush is a good steward of God's creation, and a conservative, therefore, the 'green' qualities of his ranch.

algor (the Mili Vanili of the environment. LOL!) is a total fraud (i.e. a liberal), a political hack and a nutcase.

[msnimje]

I might be too good at it though as I have about 4000 board feet of lumber right now.

Excellent. It is pathetic what people (especially companies) throw away every day.

[msnimje]

I use solar lighting because I don't want to run up the electric bill and I do want to avoid dark areas around the home's exterior.

That is very good. We are going to build a house on our farm and it will be solar powered. We might even have a windmill operate our well pump.

[sine_nomine]

My uncle had a windmill to pump water for his cows. My mother had a compost pile long before the Greens showed up.

[msnimje]

My mother had a compost pile long before the Greens showed up.

We gardeners call it "black gold!"

[ctdonath2]

As it should be!

True environmentalists just live more in harmony with nature as they can.
Interesting how many "environmentalists" follow the "someone _else_ should do something about it" philosophy.

There's a difference between simply living it vs. getting hysterical about it.

[sine_nomine]

When I teach vegans, I ask them if they wear leather shoes and have leather purses. I asked one if she fed meat to her pets. She changed the subject. One showed the class a photo of a calf, tortured so we could eat. I put up a photo of a steak.

I feel sorry for these people trapped in fads. They follow the fad without having any real commitment. I only hope those people don't vote.

[snugs]

If he did it would be another thing that "conservatives" would use to bash him.

[DTogo]

Well if any did, I'd stand up for him on this issue.

[SevenofNine]

It start look like Al Gore is Mil Vanili of the eniviroment right now Drudge reporting that Al Gore energy bill is 20 times average price WHOA that tell you something

[ohioWfan]

I agree with Rush on this one. If algor wants to live like a king and hog energy, it's his right, as long as he can pay for it.

What makes him totally reprehensible is that he's able to pay for his energy hog lifestyle by getting rich through his utter hypocrisy in preaching about environmental responsibility and scaring people to death about a problem that doesn't even exist.

So he's making poor little leftist schleps feel guilty, and creating all sorts of mayhem and panic by lying through his teeth about all of this environmental wacko political agenda stuff.

algor is a bottom dweller. Period.

[ohioWfan]

You're sure right about that, snugs.

If he so much as breathed a word that he was environmentally responsible and conserved energy, it would be attacked by the ubercons as yet another sign that he's not really a conservative (even though this is literal 'conserve-atism.'

The man can't win. So he just has to keep doing the right things..........like this.

[MrB]

To be a "Green", you have to seek to use the government to force everyone else to "conserve" while you yourself do nothing that you advocate others do.

[cookcounty]

He's an idea man, and he has the money to experiment with this.

Or, he and Rove and Cheney conspired to get the Green vote, but were outsmarted by the press and talking heads, who with their heads deep into Al Gore's pockets, declined to discuss this very interesting story, fearing it would take them "off script".

[Old Professer]

Milli Vanilli?

[SevenofNine]

LMAO YEAH OMG I got album on cassette before I learn they didn't sing it LOL!

[SevenofNine]

SO what Rush saying here AL Gore is fraud LOL! in nice way