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Originally posted by grover
this isn't a story its simply character bashing... its a 20 room house for Christ's sake. How many people live in it? One person, tow, three? For every person you add more energy consumption. I wonder how much energy you consumed digging this up?
Talk about hypocrisy. How about the contrast between bush minor's energy policy heavy on oil, coal, nuclear and natural gas and his ranch in Crawford which is about as green as can be?
This is just bogus.
BTW Matt Drudge is just about as reliable as a source from the Iraqi National Congress if you catch my drift.
[edit on 27-2-2007 by grover]
[edit on 27-2-2007 by grover]
Graciously, Gore tells consumers how to change their lives to curb their carbon-gobbling ways: Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs, use a clothesline, drive a hybrid, use renewable energy, dramatically cut back on consumption. Better still, responsible global citizens can follow Gore's example, because, as he readily points out in his speeches, he lives a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." But if Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.
For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)
Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.
Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.
But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.
www.usatoday.com...
Al Gore has also mentioned in numerous interviews that he has made his life carbon-neutral...
But a spokesman for Gore quickly fired back Monday night, claiming, "The Gore's purchase all of their power through the local Green Powerswitch program -- it is 100 percent renewable power."
"In addition, they are in the midst of a renovation which includes installing solar panels on their home, which will enable them to use less power," Gore's spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said in a statement.
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
maybe he's growing weed in the basement ?
Originally posted by supercheetah
Don't you people think that environmentalists already took him to task over this issue?
Seriously, stopping global warming has nothing to do with power usage and much more to do with carbon emissions. If you're getting your power from renewable resources, then use all the power you want.
Originally posted by Magickesists
I mean al gore is probably covering the cost of his house with the people he has already inspired to save electricity.
Originally posted by grover
what about the people who blindly follow rush limbraugh centurian?
A 20 room house? bet you they aren't those little 12X14 or less size rooms the average house has....I am surprised it isn't more.
Haven't you bothered to read any of the posts on this subject at all? Or are you just blindly following?
Originally posted by centurion1211
Ah, you're still cluelessly missing the point. Gore has a huge house and uses all those resources while advocating that the rest of us shouldn't do the same. What if we all decided follow gore's real lead and purchase 20 room houses, drive gas guzzlers and fly all over the place? We could all claim exemptions due to the fact that we owned a big house, etc.? Would that help solve any of the issues Gore is preaching about?
Originally posted by centurion1211
That's it. That's all there is. It's not complicated to understand. This is just Gore's new career - fear mongering on global warming. And it seems a lot of you are working for him for free. You might want to renegotiate.