House #1
A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400 per month.. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern ’snow belt’ area. It’s in the South.
House #2
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every ‘green’ feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.
The water (usually 67 degrees F) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape. The heating/cooling system is so efficient that initial plans to install solar panels were cancelled.
HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee ;
it is the abode of the ‘Environmentalist’ Al Gore.
HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford , Texas ;
it is the residence of the former President of the United States, George W. Bush.
Yes, it’s “An inconvenient truth..”
You can verify it at :http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
I’ve shown this to fans of Gore before and they all defend him like crazy because he’s offsetting his excess with carbon offsets (from his own company I understand).
Why do you suppose George Bush decided to build such an environmentally friendly house? Is it because it is economically smart? Is it because he thinks it is important to care for the environment? Or is it because he is trying to do his part in reducing carbon emissions and green house gasses?
Perhaps it is for all of those reasons? Regardless, doesn’t it beg the question of, if it is a good idea, why aren’t we all doing it?
Or, is George Bush as big a fool as Al Gore (in your estimation)?
Nobody is as big a fool as Al Gore, unless its the group that defends him.
Not to mention all the lumber used for the pristine white picket fences at Al Gore’s property – or the fossil fuels used to keep it perfectly manicured.
Thank you Saul for this. I am going to send this to all my friends and my twitter friends! Talk about irony.
Al Gore is a genius. It’s his followers who are the fools.
The story of “carbon credits” is easy. If you are rich enough you can live as extravagantly and eco-harmfully as you like—never changing your lifestyle one bit—and still claim to be an “environmentalist.”
Then the “regular people” end up living like 3rd world peasants, while you reign in glory from your mansion.