He bought it shortly after losing the election in 2000
IMO ... the guy has some serious issues to get over
Posted on 03/03/2007 6:52:00 AM PST by kellynla
Al Gore defends his extraordinary personal energy usage by telling critics he maintains a "carbon neutral" lifestyle by buying "carbon offsets," but the company that receives his payments turns out to be partly owned and chaired by the former vice president himself.
Gore has built a "green money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including himself, but he set it up so that the average Joe can't afford to play on Gore's terms," writes blogger Dan Riehl.
Gore has described the lifestyle he and his wife Tipper live as "carbon neutral," meaning he tries to offset any energy usage, including plane flights and car trips, by "purchasing verifiable reductions in CO2 elsewhere."
But it turns out he pays for his extra-large carbon footprint through Generation Investment Management, a London-based company with offices in Washington, D.C., for which he serves as chairman. The company was established to take financial advantage of new technologies and solutions related to combating "global warming," reports blogger Bill Hobbs.
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Generation Investment Management's U.S. branch is headed by a former Gore staffer and fund-raiser, Peter S. Knight, who once was the target of probes by the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice.
Hobbs points out Gore stands to make a lot of money from his promotion of the alleged "global warming" threat, which is disputed by many mainstream scientists.
"In other words, he 'buys' his 'carbon offsets' from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself," Hobbs writes. "To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy 'carbon offsets' through Generation Investment Management – he buys stocks."
As WND reported, Gore, whose film warning of a coming cataclysm due to man-made "global warming" won two Oscars, has a mansion in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville that consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, citing data from the Nashville Electric Service.
The think tanks says since the release of Gore's film, the former 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.
Liberals often attach some cute germaine phrase to whatever hell their doing, and it oftentimes ends up either stupid, idiotic, or as Spock would say "illogical".
He bought it shortly after losing the election in 2000
IMO ... the guy has some serious issues to get over
Luckily I have one of those out here on my property. I only use the dryer if it's nasty outside, and have used it in the winter when the weather is occasionally decent, but the dryer is never used in the summer. And my thermostat is set to 63 in the winter and 80 in the summer.
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."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793161/posts
Now my house is just over 4,000 square feet, and I am not using anywhere near that amount of energy.
What the hell is he doing in there?
On this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793770/posts
Gore, staff led past airport security
Larry Lucido had my FAVORITE quote of the week:
To: george76
Maybe he purchased "security credits" from people who will agree to be searched twice when they travel
9 posted on 03/02/2007 1:18:17 AM EST by Larry Lucido
LOL .. that's funny
My house is about 6500 square feet, and my last electric bill for the month of February (the most brutal winter month in where I live) came out to be ...... $41.85 (fourty-one dollars and eighty-five cents)
Heating his pool. But even that wouldn't account for the enormous bill. So, good question. What IS he doing there?
Using grow lamps for his dope?
This sounds just like Barbra Streisand who wants us all to use clotheslines while she has a house she had built specifically for her furs which she air conditions to the appropriate temperature.
I have a 142 acres in pine and timber, with 38 acres being "old growth" and four wetlands.
Will albore's company invested in me, so I can add more land?
Pigs will fly first.
LOL>.......I always heard that consumed a lot of power!
And somebody said that Tipper just may be using a lot of "extra" power when Al is gone, but I didn't want to go there!
When I lived out in the country where I could have an outside line I got to be a real expert at hanging as many as 6 loads of wash on it and getting them all to dry in one day.
I may have come up with a way to bypass my associations bylaw about no outside line....
I'm going to go out and by about 10 of the double planting hanging poles next month. Will keep them laying down on my patio until I need to hang clothes on them on their hangers.
I live in a 2x4 and mine last month was $385
Just think of all the rich libs who have already bought their carbon offsets and now the truth becomes public. LOL It was a stupid idea anyway and they/their publicists bought into it never guessing the curtain would be raised.
Lowell Ponte a writter for news max thinks Gore is going to jump into the race since he is the great savior of the planet now.
When I get up from the living room to come to the computer, I shut the TV off.
LOL.
Even a heated pool and the gaslights along the driveway don't account for this. He does sweat a lot so maybe he cools the house more than most. And I've seen you mention he takes 4-5 showers a day; maybe all that hot water.
Maybe the hot air coming out of Al requires the A/C to run all the time.
And of course it's a 3 level house (attic, main, basement). The main floor is the only floor in the house that is heated, and the basement is great during the summer. (a steady 65 degrees year round)
Another high sorce for high energy usage: Al Bores' girth may be a clue that there's a whole lot of cookig going on in the kitchen.
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