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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rebel on July 19, 2008, 01:16:29 PM
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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 ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern "snow belt," either. 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 contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid 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 winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the 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. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.
HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.
HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as "the Texas White House," it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.
So whose house is gentler on the environment?
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I've read this a few times. Of the two, I'd pick Bush's ranch over Gore's house.
I'm quite amazed by Bush's ranch, especially their usage of waste water.
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The President's home is very "homey" with wrap-around porches and lots of nature. It is built for love and family.
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It just goes to show who the REAL hypocrite is.........
(follow the MONEY when it comes to "global climate change" and "carbon credits"........)
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It's no wonder the Dims love Gore, he gets away with even more hypocrisy than they do.
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Since it's the Democrats that do the pick and shovel work that permits teh Gorecle to "get away with" his hypocracy, I don't think it is this that gives them penis-envy of Don Alfonse Gore-leone. I think it's just the fact that teh Gorecle is bigger and more brazen in his hypocracy than any three Democrats you could name COMBINED.