Worry about man made global heating = bogus
Dixie Chicks winning three grammys = bogus
But I digress. Algorebot is today subject. He has a twenty room mansion in BelleMeade in Nashville with eight bathrooms. The driveway is lined with gas lights. Only he and Tipper live there along with how ever many illegal hispanics he employs.
Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”
Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.
Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).
In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.
The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.
Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.
Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.
Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.
“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk the walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.
In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.
6 comments:
OF course you forgot to mention he's paying four times the price since he is buying GREEN POWER from NES. But we wouldn't expect you to get the whole story. Also, that report was funded by Exxon/Mobil. But then what dog do they have in the fight.
Get your facts straight.
What are you doing? You drive a couple 8-cylinder vehicles don't you? You do nothing to help the environment but use as much and waste all you can.
The right is just jealous.
Famous Quotes on Character:
Ralph Waldo Emerson:What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Zig Ziglar:What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.
Marcus Aurelius:Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be, be one
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
John Dryden:We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
Aristotle:We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
Mahatma Gandhi:One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department.Life is one indivisible whole.
Ect..So on..and so forth....
If GREEN POWER frem NES costs 4 times as much, then dont you think that only those with money to burn can afford it. Maybe thats why they call it GREEN.
"Consequences, shmonsequences! So long as I'm rich!" -- Daffy Duck
Mr. Jimbo:
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research is an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions.
That quote was taken from their web site where the entire story originated. If you followed the links you would know that. Attack them not me. I have no clue as to where they get their funding. This story was all over the news this week and even some of the leftwing liberal media carried it (surprised at that).
Besides Algore being Algore, there are lots of anecdotal stories about him here in Tennessee. If you remember, he could not carry his own home state against Bush. And that is kinda strange because his father, Al Gore Sr., was a true gentleman, good legislator and an a all around fine man and was popular with both Republicans and Democrats here in Tennessee.
Don’t know about Al’s ‘Green Plan’ on his house other than hearing yesterday on the radio news that he is just now starting to install thermal panels to alleviate his electricity use.
And for your information, I have a four cylinder, a inline six cylinder and a V6. And I am also not preaching conservation.
Wu,
check your facts. That organization is HARDLY unbiased, the president being form Exxon/Mobil and getting major funding from the same company proves that. If you paid attention to anyone but Fox Noise & Entertainment you would know that. Of course, Exxon/Mobil has no dog in the global warming fight (to use a redneck phrase).
So, that SUV has a V6? Very conservative of you. Of course you wouldn't PREACH anything. How wrong of me to go in that direction. My apologies for the irreverent behavior.
I knew you'd love this story, dad. But bear in mind that the average American home isn't in the warmer climate of TN and isn't home to a family that includes Former-VPUSA-level security.
I won't comment on why TN might keep voting against their economic and educational interests by continuing to vote Republican, but...
"As of Feb. 16, the Tennessee tax dept. considers them "not a legitimate organization" because of their misrepresenting themselves involving questions about the group's opposition to a state crackdown on drug dealers.
Gore Responds:
Responding to Drudge's attack, Vice President Gore's office told ThinkProgress:
1) Gore's family has taken numerous steps to reduce the carbon footprint of their private residence, including signing up for 100 percent green power through Green Power Switch, installing solar panels, and using compact fluorescent bulbs and other energy saving technology.
2) Gore has had a consistent position of purchasing carbon offsets to offset the family's carbon footprint -- a concept the right-wing fails to understand. Gore's office explains:
What Mr. Gore has asked is that every family calculate their carbon footprint and try to reduce it as much as possible. Once they have done so, he then advocates that they purchase offsets, as the Gore's do, to bring their footprint down to zero."
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