Posted on 03/01/2007 2:10:35 AM PST by DaveTesla
This whole thing with global warming and its leading apostle Al Gore is just more of the political left’s habit of talking the talk but never walking the walk.
Gore has proven time and again to be a complete hypocrite. He preaches the need to eliminate man-made pollution. On his website advising people to fight global warming by discovering what their so-called carbon footprint is, he says, “You may be surprised by how much CO2 you are emitting each year,” and advises that you should “calculate your personal impact and learn how you can take action to reduce or even eliminate your emissions of carbon dioxide.”
Mr. Gore, however, does not practice what he preaches. He wants you to curb your lifestyle drastically, but on the record he’s doing everything he doesn’t want you to do, and doing it extravagantly.
Consider his house in Tennessee. According to The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, Nashville Electric Services records obtained by the Center show the Gores in 2006 averaged a monthly electricity bill of $1,359 for using 18,414 kilowatt-hours, and $1,461 per month for using 16,200 kilowatt-hours in 2005.
Over the past two years, the gas and electric bills for his 20-room mansion and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.
Nashville Gas Company billed the family during the same period an average of $536 a month for the main house and $544 for the pool house in 2006, and $640 for the main house and $525 for the pool house in 2005. That averages out to be $29,268 in gas and electric bills for the Gores in 2006, $31,512 in 2005.
"If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility bills, I wouldn't care," says Drew Johnson, the Center's 27-year-old president. "But he tells other people how to live and he's not following his own rules."
Compare this with President Bush’s practices as a homeowner.
According to a story in the April 29, 2001, Chicago Tribune, “Bush loves ecology -- at home,” the president’s house is a model of ecological purity.
“The 4,000-square-foot house is a model of environmental rectitude, wrote freelance reporter Rob Sullivan. “Geothermal heat pumps located in a central closet circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet deep in the ground where the temperature is a constant 67 degrees; the water heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. Systems such as the one in this ‘eco-friendly’ dwelling use about 25 percent of the electricity that traditional heating and cooling systems utilize.
“A 25,000-gallon underground cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof runs; wastewater from sinks, toilets and showers goes into underground purifying tanks and is also funneled into the cistern. The water from the cistern is used to irrigate the landscaping surrounding the four-bedroom home. Plants and flowers native to the high prairie area blend the structure into the surrounding ecosystem.”
Gore talks the talk, the president walks the walk.
Gore and his leftist buddies pat themselves on the back and tell us what they think we ought to be doing, but they are not going to follow the rules they lay down for us.
Al Gore excuses his own excesses by saying he is buying "carbon credits," to offset his massive use of electric power and jet planes.
Buying "carbon credits" allows him to pollute to his heart’s content, because he’s adopted a "carbon neutral" life whereby any emissions for which he is personally responsible are allegedly offset by buying “green credits” such as parcels of forests that eat up CO2.
He doesn’t do solar, he doesn’t use wind power, he doesn’t change his lifestyle or go bio-diesel, he doesn’t do any of the things he insists the rest of us must do to save the planet from being barbecued -- he just buys carbon credits and goes on his merry way spewing pollution in all directions.
This is so outrageously asinine on its face; it alone should awaken the American people to the fact that they are being had by Mr. Gore and his fellow global warming fanatics. Instead of getting an Oscar Sunday night, he should have been laughed off the stage.
Isn't hypocrisy the very essense of the Leftist and Hollywood elite?
I saw a TV show about the house. It was a great show, and showed some of the equipment in the house. W was there in the show, but was quite modest about it all.
The house is one of the most eco-friendly I've seen.
Good that he lost in 2000. It would have been a shame staining the WH furniture. Also this the guy who claimed to be an environmentalist but his family owned land containing a toxic waste dump. The man exudes hypocrisy.
I bet Gore has illegal 5 gallon toilets in his house as well.
Whats hilarious is that in the 1st article the mention of Bush's house size as small is compared to the 16,000 to 20,000 ft mansions the Gia worshipers are living in (Gore, Edwards, Streisand). He seems to be ok with the filthy rich buying parcels of private land and setting it aside as a carbon offsets instead of the filthy rich changing their habits.
Don't you also love the way this guy likes to use Latino families and South Central single moms to make his point that Bush is an a-hole.
Bottom line for this guy is that Bush likes corporations to pollute the publics clean air and water but makes his own property nice and clean for himself. He is ok however with Gore himself polluting out air and water and setting aside land he buys which none of us regular guys can enjoy.
Gore can buy 10,000 acres in Montana as a carbon offset and then have Travolta fly himself and his hollywood buddies up there for vacation and be guilt free.
The best analogy I've seen, is that it's like the buying of indulgences for sins from the Church, back in the Middle Ages.
It's a good bet that Mr. Bush understands that Global Warming is a socialist agenda thing. Mr. Bush's ecologically friendly living style makes sense, because it costs him less to run. Any time you can save a buck it benefits you. Unlike the liberals philosophy where anytime you save a buck they want it.
Algore is coming to Indianapolis on April 24th for a speech.
I'm not putting the snow shovels away until afterward.
Everywhere the guy shows up there's a blizzard or cold wave, LOL
Antennae up. Holy Enron, Batman, AlGore is financially intertwined with this, beyond just the surface stuff like the movie and speaking fees?
I would call that "prudent".
Ooh, that's a good one. And spot on.
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I believe he's involved with a British firm that deals in carbon credit futures and related products. When he says he "buys" carbon credits, he's probably talking about his purchase of the futures, which will go sky high if regulations are enacted to use the credit system.
Why then don't liberals understand trading pollution credits? They sure made a fuss against this when Bush proposed it a while back.
That he thinks we are stupid is proof that HE is.
I recall Rush showing a log home built out west. It belonged to the president of one of the green organizations. It seemed there were over 200000 trees butchered for the home.
Algore needs a carbon footprint boot in his a$$. Get out of my life. I'm freezing because we can't afford to heat our home above 65-66 degrees.
When the communists get into power they split society into 2 classes: the elite who have everything that they want and don't have to follow the rules, and the ordinary common herd which has nothing, is oppressed, put down, and has to obey the rules or face prison.
Gore is part of the elite.
See this 2001 article from the Chicago Tribune.
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0429-03.htm
Prince Albert's buying carbon credits reminds me of the rich buying indulgences for their sins from the pope in the days of 1400/1600 hundreds in Europe.
"Mr. Gore, however, does not practice what he preaches. He wants you to curb your lifestyle drastically"
>>Do i curb my lifestyle drastically if i use energy-saving lamp in my rooms or drive a hybrid car???
"Consider his house in Tennessee. According to The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, Nashville Electric Services records obtained by the Center show the Gores in 2006 averaged a monthly electricity bill of $1,359 for using 18,414 kilowatt-hours, and $1,461 per month for using 16,200 kilowatt-hours in 2005."
>>This is another dirt campaign from certain groups. No one wonders why this "information" comes out 2 days afer Gore wons the Oscar for his movie?
"Over the past two years, the gas and electric bills for his 20-room mansion and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours."
>>The national average has no 20 room mansion, SO WHAT???
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