Who's the real environmentalist?

A Tale of Two Houses



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. 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 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.



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 the of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.



An "inconvenient truth".

Who's the real environmentalist?
To michael g and kenny j,



the inconvenient truth is that what david says is true:



http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/hous...



there you have it!
Reply:Have a link to prove this contention? I doubt it.

I will assume you posted because you are another fool with their head in the sand and doesn't understand the meaning of environmentalist. Neither house is close to being environmentally correct. Bush claims to be moral as he starts illegal wars and advocates killing. Don't see you whining about that hypocrisy.
Reply:Good job. Keep on exposing UncleAl's convenient lie.
Reply:Oh my, the GW alarmists are distancing themselves from Al Gore too. First it was The Day After Tomorrow., then it was Live Earth. Next it will be the IPCC Report.
Reply:"Inconvenient" indeed...Nice post.
Reply:When a global warming denier brings up Al Gore it's simply an admission they have no credible scientific arguments.



This isn't the politics section. But it should be noted in passing that Bush's idiotic and illegal war causes more impact on global warming in one day than Al Gore will have in ten years. And calling him an "environmentalist" is ridiculous.
Reply:bush likes his house better cause it smells like horse "Sh it"
Reply:That's old news. Everyone and their dog knows this already.
Reply:You are comparing apples to oranges in a very biased and "conveniently untruthful" way. Does house one collect rainwater, does house two have gas cooking, a pool?



Both men have more than one house, how does their total footprint compare for ALL the houses they own.



Connvenient lies are easily discredited.
Reply:Al Gore's house also serves as his and Tipper's home office, and they're not exactly "small time" business they have their own staff. On top of that, the fact that Al Gore even compiled an inconvenient truth shows that he cares more, where as President Bush lovingly refers to Prince Bandar (you know, the guy who's father is the leader of Saudi Arabia) as "Bandar Bush".



So Al Gore has faults. I admit, I don't like the idea of him using that much energy. But at the same time, I think it completely offsets his energy use when he is educating the entire world about global warming. What has President Bush done about global warming? Started a war, favors oil companies, loosened environmental standards...there's just no comparison.



Besides that, Crawford is Bush's VACATION home. Why don't you look @ the energy use of his formal residence? I think you'll find quite quickly he is no where NEAR an environmentalist.
Reply:thats cute, except the inconvenient truth is you made up the facts on these houses
Reply:A person's actions in daily life are irrelevant to any solution to Global Warming. We must totally revamp our industrial infrastructure to eliminate fossil fuels---that is the only real solution, and it requires political action. Those in favor of that political action are helping, those who oppose it may be putting the future of the Earth in jeopardy.
Reply:Why was this posted in 'Global Warming' instead of 'Politics'.
Reply:Whats good is either one of them doing for the common man? Your talking about 2 rich guys each will use more energy in a day then we will use in a month for the rest of our lives . An "inconvenient truth" .
Reply:But Algore cares more. President Bush is for big oil.



We just have to forget that Algore's family fortune is from their ownership in Occidental Petroleum, and the price of gas and his family fortunes keep going up every time he shows his version of truth.



Semper Fi!
Reply:Excellent....



I'm also loving the entire "CO2 output" fear that they are now using. Let's see...more C02 = more food for plants = faster growing rainforests %26amp; timber = less environmental damage. haha...kind of another inconvenient truth for the dems....
Reply:Way to go, Mr. Bush.

Talk is cheap.

Jello, "Caring" means nothing without results. Typical of a liberal. "Feelings" mean more than results, facts, and truth.
Reply:check out snopes...THIS IS TRUE!!!!!
Reply:If most of us could afford just a 1/3 of the price they paid to have their homes built, we wouldn't mind having an environmentally safe "shanty" either. Imagine the price tag on these homes. And the gap keeps widening... Good "truths", thanks for sharing.