http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=nation_world&id=5073354
These politicians. They try to soak the rich and bemoan tax cuts while getting rich and exploiting tax shelters themselves (Hillary Clinton), they talk about Global Warming while splurging on energy and driving SUVs (Gore, etc.), they talk about the plight of the working class and of Two Americas and live in gigantic mansions (Edwards), they talk tough on war yet avoided military duty in their youth and keep their own kids or grandkids out (Bush, Cheney). They're the elite, we're the serfs. We are living in a live-action version of George Orwell's Animal Farm.
I'll bet he's sorry he ever invented the internet.
Gore Responds: "Hey, I cook a lot of bacon! Frying bacon takes a lot of energy!"
Did you see the poll on the site? Only 27 people had voted.
30-thou a year in utility bills and the best they can come up with they each have a home office?
Gore should be a poster boy for what he peddles. His hypocracy is NOT surprising.
P.T. Barnum is laughing from the grave at this feel-guilt fleecing of guilt-ridden Liberals...
Create a fake "Commodity", then get stupid liberals to PAY you for them!!
WHAT A SCAM!!
Can you imagine?
"Buddy, can you spare a Carbon Credit? I really need a smoke..."
Or as someone on another thread stated, it's like the old practice of Catholic Dispensation.
Pay a fee to a Priest in The Church Of Global Warming, and continue polluting, free of guilt, without worry of purgatory...
So Big Al pays some poor schnook to do his energy conserving for him? Does he also pay the guy to shine his shoes?
Gotta say I'm amazed ABC is actually reporting this, after all the lovefest for Gore last night!!
:-O
That's like eating meat three times a day, and donating to PETA.
Owning a liquor store, and donating to MADD.
Being Bobby Kennedy Jr., and not supporting the Cape Wind project.
Al Gore's mansion uses more than twice the electricity in one month than the average household does in an entire year.
Two other bi9g mansion energy suckers are Jaohn Edwards and Barbra Streisand. someone who has time should post pics of their mansions.
These facts will change nothing. In Hollywood they only care about play-acting.
Bigfoot Al, a.k.a. Sasquatch.
OR...they may simply be pointing to the most hypocritical supporter of the global warming doctrine.
Home office, huh...
There must be some way to calculate how many fax machines, computers, flourecent lights etc. they would have to operate to consume that much power. Oh, and that must be a toasty pool if he is burning over $500 a month to heat it. With his reasoning all we each need to do is to pay some dirt farmer in Myanmar 25 cents a month not to drive an SUV so we can contunue to drive ours. what a concept.
Over 600 kWh per day
Wow. How many plasma TV's, refrigerators, and air conditioners do you need to use to average 600 kWh per day, or about 25,200 kW per hour?
If you count the days he's actually home, the electricity consumption rate is even higher.
Careful, pal. George Bush joined* the Air Force National Guard in the summer of 1968. In the very month he signed up, Texas Air National Guard F-102 pilots were flying missions in Vietnam (Project Palace Guard). If you had a Bachelor's degree in anything other than Science, Engineering or Math, you could not go into the regular Air Force pilot training program. So he joined the TANG.
Perhaps you remember Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff from 1976 in which he chronicled, in the first chapters, the dangers of flying in certain fighter aircraft. Which plane was cited as most dangerous in the Air Force? Bush's plane, the F-102 Delta Dart (page 24). While Bush was in his year-long training for the F-102, the Air Force decided the F-102 was less suitable for close support tasks than other newer aircraft in the arsenal, and ended their service in Vietnam.
After getting out of flight training for the F-102, the Air Force and the TANG reassessed the horrible safety record of the F-102 and determined that they had lost too many of the planes and too many pilots and ended the F-102 program (almost 30% of the F102s produced crashed or were destroyed in accidents on the tarmac---USAF Aircraft safety records). Flying fighter aircraft is not like driving cars, where you can get out of your Chevy and drive a Ford instead. Each aircraft has a long training period, and by then the war was winding down. Nixon announced the end of the draft December 7th, 1971 ( I'm an expert on that subject because I was in my 6th day at Fort Knox when he made the announcement). Ground combat ended in April of '72 and flight slots for Vietnam were hard to get, even if you had been trained in the "right" aircraft.
So where was George? I got out the same time as President Bush, and where was I in those last months, a medical corpsman with excellent ratings? --painting rocks, mopping the mess hall and being asked if there wasn't some "early drop" I qualified for.
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* Who joined the Air National Guard the same month as George "Silver Spoon" Bush? Why none other than poor Dickie Gephardt, son of the humble down-trodden milkman. Dick Gephardt seved less than half the duty days of that supposedly duty-shirking Bush, and that may be the real reason why Gephardt sank from the 2004 primary race like a wingless F-102. Dick was just too darn inconvenient for the Dems attack plans.