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Bush or Gore? Who walks the environmental walk?

by eastvanray | August 23, 2009 at 12:06 pm

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This is about more than houses read it through.
Two Houses....interesting, and kind of funny

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.
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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.
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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.'

I sure hope this gets passed to everyone! And, yes ... I DID check Snopes prior to forwarding it.

You can verify it at : http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp <http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp>

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Barry Artiste

at 13:03 on August 23rd, 2009

Guess this story should be classified under the No Sh^t Sherlock category as we all knew Gore was full of it. Interesting to see how many Latte Suckin Pro Gore Ittes comment on this East Van, most likely none.

Inconvenient Truth Hell YEAH!

eastvanray

at 13:26 on August 23rd, 2009

Ya. I guess that house is Gore's REAL Inconvenient Truth! Give him the Oscar for Best Spin Doctoring by a US Politician!

Barbara McPherson

at 13:32 on August 23rd, 2009

One swallow does not a summer make. We shouldn't judge Gore only on his steroid house. We should also take into consideration his flying around the world on private planes to tell us plebians how to behave.

eastvanray

at 13:41 on August 23rd, 2009

The thing that surprised me was not the Gore mansion....that is old news. But the Bush house. I didn't know he had such an afinity for green energy and technology. Watch for Haliburton to start making hackey sacks next!.

eastvanray

at 13:50 on August 23rd, 2009

I guess he needs all those rooms to hold his big f*ckin mouth and overgrown ego.

politisite

at 14:05 on August 23rd, 2009

Well Done, We all can talk. I think Al Gore figures, since he is preaching the gospel of Global Warming he gets carbon credit for an environmentally unfriendly home.

Barry Artiste

at 14:19 on August 23rd, 2009

Clinton and Gore were both opposed to signing the climate change bill Canada presented to them when they were in power, certainly Hypocritical of both of them eh? Now I hear Gore spends his time hunting for that elusive MANBEARPIG, and he is Really, Really, Really Cereal about finding it.

Here is Gores story to save the world. it is not for the faint of heart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9wmczxnT3c&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfGmf8L3-z0