Posted on 02/26/2007 5:22:01 PM PST by Serious Capitalist
Is it possible that George Bush is a secret Green? Evidently his Crawford Winter White House has 25,000 gallons of rainwater storage, gray water collection from sinks and showers for irrigation, passive solar, geothermal heating and cooling. “By marketplace standards, the house is startlingly small,” says David Heymann, the architect of the 4,000-square-foot home. "Clients of similar ilk are building 16-to-20,000-square-foot houses." Furthermore for thermal mass the walls are clad in "discards of a local stone called Leuders limestone, which is quarried in the area. The 12-to-18-inch-thick stone has a mix of colors on the top and bottom, with a cream-colored center that most people want. “They cut the top and bottom of it off because nobody really wants it,” Heymann says. “So we bought all this throwaway stone. It’s fabulous. It’s got great color and it is relatively inexpensive.”
Come think of it AL Gore I don't think did documentary I haven't seen it but I wonder if going come out later that Al Gore didn't research it like Oscar version of Mill Vallini reset LOL!
ROFLOL!!! I have NEVER thought of algor as a neo-Mili Vanili, but you may be on to something there!
I was just thinking after readin that on AL Gore crib on Drudge site hey does make you think HMMMMM
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I don't care what Al Gore or George Bush or anyone else does with his own property. Where the environmentalists go wrong is dragging the government into it, and trying to tell everyone else what to do with their property.
That's typical liberal policy. It's not restricted to just environmental policy.
Just look at Kerry's tax return.
Anyone surprised? This whole global warming issue is based on the fact that the "elites" think that the rest of us use too much energy, allowing less for them. The bottom line is that these people believe that there are too many people on earth (fully contradicting God's word to multiply and fill the earth), they support abortion on demand as a way to keep the population smaller, and they are trying to force the diminished use of fossils fuels for the rest of us. They see no contradiction in their use of enormous amounts of it...as they are the ELITES...and what are elites good for anyway, other than telling the rest of us what to do and using resources for their own?
I wonder what the point of making it look like a big, red barn was?
Nice to know that this champion of the poor lives just like the rest of us little people.
Posted by Marc Morano Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov - February 27, 2007 4:21 pm ET
Former Vice President Al Gore has been criticized for his rather large electric bills ($30,000 a year) at his home in Tennessee. (Link) What you might not have heard about is how environmentally friendly President George Bush's home is in Crawford Texas. Below is a partial reprint from the Chicago Tribune from April 29, 2001.
By Rob Sullivan. Rob Sullivan is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles
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% 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.
No, this is not the home of some eccentrically wealthy eco-freak trying to shame his fellow citizens into following the pristineness of his self-righteous example. And no, it is not the wilderness retreat of the Sierra Club or the Natural Resources Defense Council, a haven where tree-huggers plot political strategy.
This is President George W. Bush's "Texas White House" outside the small town of Crawford
[EPW Note: The President’s House in Crawford was designed to be eco-friendly.]
According to David Heymann, the house's architect and associate dean of the University of Texas architecture department, Heymann designed the house so that "every room has a relationship with something in the landscape that's different from the room next door. Each of the rooms feels like a slightly different place."
In a USA Today interview, Heymann said, "There's a great grove of oak trees to the west that protects it from the late afternoon sun. Then there is a view out to the north looking at hills, and to the east out over a lake, and the view to the south . . . out to beautiful hills."
[EPW Note: I wonder if the news media will report on the President’s green way of life.]
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Two Americas, huh?
The lefties know that Bush isn't as money grubbing as their heroes. Thats part of why they hate him so much.
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