POWER: GORE MANSION USES 20X AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD; CONSUMPTION INCREASE AFTER 'TRUTH'

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http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm


Take's alot to heat and cool his lard ass.

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POWER: GORE MANSION USES 20X AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD; CONSUMPTION INCREASE AFTER 'TRUTH'
Mon Feb 26 2007 17:16:14 ET

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions, issued a press release late Monday:



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, [20-room, eight-bathroom] 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 to 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.

For Further Information, Contact:
Nicole Williams, (615) 383-6431
editor@tennesseepolicy.org

[Roguish Lawyer]

Who says FOGs are slow? Beat me to it, BMT. I added the text.

[Sdiver]

Only YOU can prevent global warming....apparently AL is immune to having to pitch in. :rolleyes:

[Sionnach]

Wow, and to think I was feelin' bad about my gas-guzzlin' SUV. :rolleyes:

[Gypsy]

He's part of the "do as I say, not as I do" crowd. :rolleyes:

[82ndtrooper]

Hypocrisy is not a new charachter flaw for liberal democrats. :rolleyes:

[Radar Rider]

I didn't watch the oscar's (I think they suck), but I'd speculate that NOT ONE of al's supporters walked to the event, but instead rode in bigass gas guzzlin', pollutin' limousines. As for the statues themselves? They were flown in from Chicago. I wonder what THEIR global warming signature is? :rolleyes:

[rubberneck]

I read this last year and it dovetails nicely with this AlGore story. Obviously the global warming giltterati don't put their money where their mouth is.


Celebs Who Claim They’re Green but Guzzle Gas

Posted Oct 18th 2006 11:45AM by

Hybrid cars are all the rage in Hollywood. Celebrities drive them like they’re a badge of honor. You save a few gallons of gas, you save the planet. Right? Well, not when you hop on a private jet and burn enough fuel to propel NASCAR through 2050.

Of course, the stars need to go here and there. The location shoots, the fabulous vacations, etc. But that’s why God created United Airlines. G-IV’s, on the other hand, were created in the image of precious celebs.

Julia Roberts

On the ground: Roberts drives a Prius, which gets (at best) 60 miles to the gallon, shaving 30 miles off a normal car’s mpg.
In the air: Chicago/LA, 1,749 miles in a private jet, the route she took with Rupert Everett while shooting “My Best Friend’s Wedding.”
Gas guzzled: 2,100 gallons of jet fuel.
Prius Penance: Julia would have to drive 30,000 miles, or roughly once around the earth and then some to even out her consumption in the air.
So Julia says: No word yet from Julia’s rep.

Jennifer Lopez

On the ground: J-Lo tools around in her 60 miles-per-gallon Prius.
In the air: LA /New York, 2,475 miles in a private jet. Lopez was actually sued by a private jet company for allegedly skipping out on the bill, though she says it’s all a misunderstanding and she was not supposed to be billed.
Gas guzzled: 2,750 gallons of jet fuel.
Prius penance: She’d have to drive 45,000 miles, and that’s a lot longer for Jenny than just going down the block. It’s actually more like twice around the earth.
So Jennifer says: There was no comment from Lopez’s rep.


George Clooney

On the ground: George favors a Tango, an electric car that gets a whopping 135 miles to the charge.
In the air: Los Angeles/Tokyo, 5500 miles in a private jet.
Gas guzzled: 7,000 gallons of jet fuel.
Electric shocker: Even with his super-saver Tango, he’ll have to drive over 57 oceans — Pacific Oceans to break even.
So George says: Clooney’s rep, publicist Stan Rosenfield, tells TMZ, “You clearly have no understanding of certain people’s need for private transport,” and points out that Clooney often has “no control” over his travel schedule.


Brad Pitt

On the ground: Eco-champ Brad is yet another Prius-lover, and he reportedly has several hybrids in his stable.
In the air: Los Angeles/Namibia, 9,400 miles in a private jet.
Gas guzzled: 11,000 gallons of jet fuel.
Prius penance: Brad burned enough fuel to take a Prius to the moon.
So Brad says: Pitt didn’t have any comment. His rep tells TMZ that Pitt is out of the country.

And the true-blue Green Award goes to … Leo DiCaprio.

On the ground: Leo drives a Toyota Prius
In the air: Leo flies just like us folk — commercial, unless he positively must fly private because of scheduling.
Prius penance: None.

[spectre919]

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Take's alot to heat and cool his lard ass.

BMT

Gore’s mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] 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).




HHHmmmm???? 20 Rooms, 8 bathrooms.....I betcha one gallon of gasoline (93 octane, to help the environment) and a match could generate substantial amounts of BTU's. Now we just need to figure out how to harness the energy.....or not. ;)

[booker]

Really doesn't come as a shock to me, remember he needs all that room for ol' Tipper and her lard ass too.

[Detonics]

Only YOU can prevent global warming....apparently AL is immune to having to pitch in. :rolleyes:

You really have to think this out a bit more!

The inconvenience that he might face should he try to conserve might somehow thwart or stifle his creative genius in designing bold new societies for the lumpenproletariat. We could experience a version of the "Butterfly Effect" in which the world would be robbed of the great vision of AlGore just because we expected him to live up to his espoused convictions. The Horror!

Face it. The gifted deserve the bread so that they can more energetically determine how the masses best divide the crumbs.

[x SF med]

WTF is it with this Prius crap - they may cut air pollution for the short term, but where do the 9 friggin batteries go (one dies the whole string has to be replaced) - and they only have a 4-5 year life.... anybody want to answer me that one? I only get 47 mpg in my diesel, and it wands just like a LEV, it'll go 500k easily and requires less maintenance than a Prius.

[Tubbs]

He needs all of that energy to run the equiptment he invented to protect us from Manbearpig.
Manbearpig, discovered by Gore shortly after he invented the internet, is the second greatest threat to mankind after global warming. It is half man, half bear and half pig.

[x SF med]

algore is a hypocrite. He's also very good at stealing credit for other's work (anybody ever read any of Alvin Toffler's work? algore has plagarized a lot of that as his own ideas). Killing him and tipplergore would reduce Global Warming significantly - they both spout a lot of hot air.

[booker]

There was one good thing in the Oscars though, which was when one of the editors (sound or special effects editor, something like that) was receiving the award for his work in one of Clint Eastwood's films (either "Flags of Our Fathers" or "Letters From Iwo Jima") and when he was saying all his thank you's, he also said something on the order of, "...and I especially want to thank all of the members of America's armed forces who are out fighting right now and risking their lives for our safety, thank you very much..." that wasn't the exact quote, but it was something like that.

That was such a deviation from the usual "Free Tibet" monologues that I shut the TV off, figuring (correctly it seems) that speech was the highlight of the entire show.


+1 on the "hot air elimination" idea

[The Reaper]

I find it amazing that any independent minded, thinking American would actually watch any of that tripe, giving credibility to it.

I saved several hours of my life and caught the 30 seconds or so of interest (negative) the next day on FoxNews.

What is the appeal?

TR

[sg1987]

I find it amazing that any independent minded, thinking American would actually watch any of that tripe, giving credibility to it.

TR

Do you ever listen to commercial radio? I get really tired of listening to all the celebrity crap! I could care less about who is dating who in Hollyweird!

[The Reaper]

Do you ever listen to commercial radio? I get really tired of listening to all the celebrity crap! I could care less about who is dating who in Hollyweird!

No, other than the occasional morning talk show while I am in my truck, I listen to XM.

TR

[Gypsy]

I find it amazing that any independent minded, thinking American would actually watch any of that tripe, giving credibility to it.

I saved several hours of my life and caught the 30 seconds or so of interest (negative) the next day on FoxNews.

What is the appeal?

TR

Couldn't tell you TR.

My office was just "a-buzz" with Oscar talk on Monday and part of Tuesday. I didn't even bother to appear interested.

[Monsoon65]

algore is a hypocrite. He's also very good at stealing credit for other's work (anybody ever read any of Alvin Toffler's work? algore has plagarized a lot of that as his own ideas). Killing him and tipplergore would reduce Global Warming significantly - they both spout a lot of hot air.

What really chaps my ass is that they are Hollyweirds little darlings!! Wasn't it back in the late 80's, early 90's and Tipper was getting all hot and bothered about lyrics, and now we have those gay labels with the parental advisory warning?

Short memories when it comes to the restricting of Freedom of Speech.

[pegasus]

Wonder why this hasn't made the headlines? :munchin

http://edc uoregon edu/node/572

Is George W. Bush a Closet Green?

Is it possible that George Bush is a secret Green? Evidently his Crawford Winter White House has 25,000 gallons of rainwater storage, gray water collection from sinks and showers for irrigation, passive solar, geothermal heating and cooling. “By marketplace standards, the house is startlingly small,” says David Heymann, the architect of the 4,000-square-foot home. "Clients of similar ilk are building 16-to-20,000-square-foot houses." Furthermore for thermal mass the walls are clad in "discards of a local stone called Leuders limestone, which is quarried in the area. The 12-to-18-inch-thick stone has a mix of colors on the top and bottom, with a cream-colored center that most people want. “They cut the top and bottom of it off because nobody really wants it,” Heymann says. “So we bought all this throwaway stone. It’s fabulous. It’s got great color and it is relatively inexpensive.”

[SF18C]

Wonder why this hasn't made the headlines? :munchin

http://edc uoregon edu/node/572

Is George W. Bush a Closet Green?

Is it possible that George Bush is a secret Green? Evidently his Crawford Winter White House has 25,000 gallons of rainwater storage, gray water collection from sinks and showers for irrigation, passive solar, geothermal heating and cooling. “By marketplace standards, the house is startlingly small,” says David Heymann, the architect of the 4,000-square-foot home. "Clients of similar ilk are building 16-to-20,000-square-foot houses." Furthermore for thermal mass the walls are clad in "discards of a local stone called Leuders limestone, which is quarried in the area. The 12-to-18-inch-thick stone has a mix of colors on the top and bottom, with a cream-colored center that most people want. “They cut the top and bottom of it off because nobody really wants it,” Heymann says. “So we bought all this throwaway stone. It’s fabulous. It’s got great color and it is relatively inexpensive.”


Great I thought I had the political parties all figure out and now Bush is a Tree Hugger and Gore is Fat-Cat-Capitalist-pig...manbearpig! I am going to go back to watching South Park now!

[The Reaper]

I agree, but sometimes one has no choice when other members of the family like to watch that stuff and the computer linked to the Internet is in the living room:cool:

Go do PT, or some professional reading instead.

TR

[blustr18b]

I had to laugh after reading the Al Gore article after the movie, Oprah, oscars, etc...I printed a copy for my 15yr old...as Gore's film is the topic of the week in her Morality and Social Issues class. Was she ever upset after seeing the movie, then reading this article (beware indignant teenage girls!!!) and apparently shared the hypocrisy in class.....I just got a phone call from the teacher to please have my daughter bring articles that "I" wished to share with the class in a sealed envelope to be preapproved! Ouch! LOL. I think I will just have to call the principal on him! :D

Bottom Line- my daughter has learned a great lesson, and she loved sharing that President Bush's home is alittle greener than Gores'.

blustr