Is this true? And if it is, what are your takes on it?

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. The owner paid more than $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for this estate in 2006. 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 of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.



An "inconvenient truth".

Is this true? And if it is, what are your takes on it?
Yes, it is true. I think that we need to stand up for America. Hypocrisy is not a way to prove anything.
Reply:such is life...
Reply:I don't know if it's true. If it is, that's great. Of course, the President's Crawford, Texas ranch is not his primary residence... it would be interesting to know if he uses that system all the time after he's done in office. I also don't know about the rainwater thing.

Second, Al Gore purchases "carbon offsets" for his energy use. Whether this is truly "green" living is debatable, but it is a (captialistic) step in the right direction to do something to balance out carbon and CO2 emissions created by these uses.



The key is policies, though. Bush is in with Big Oil; wants to drill in Alaska; has been against setting carbon emission guidelines; has revoked the EPAs authority to sanction states and power plants for bad emissions such that they were SUED by other states to do something; refused to join the Kyoto protocol; has refused to place standards for automobile mileage or force auto manufacturers to look into alternative fuels like hydrogen; and up until recently denied the global warming existed.



True, no one likes a hyppocrite, but I'll take a hyppocrite who is doing something about the environment and tackling the world's biggest polluters.
Reply:OH HELL YEAH!! THose weazelly Liberals like to tell all us poor schmuks how to live, yet they don't suscribe to their own BS! Al Gore is the biggest blowhard since Hurricane Katrina, and yes people, that is why he is not President of these great United States!

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