Pope Gore the Prius...uh, Pious has spoken.
Posted on 12/13/2007 12:25:15 PM PST by 10Ring
“Gore’s electric use increased again after he had to take his solar panels off-line in August...”
His electric use was the same. The difference was whether it came from a private generation source or off the same lines as the sheeple.
If “green energy” companies are superior to the common utility companies, why doesn’t he power his home strictly from their production? Why the private production? With his money, he could probably get his own company online.
Gore has said the criticism was unfair because the 10,000-square-foot mansion was undergoing extensive remodeling. He said this week that "global warming denier" groups were trying to discredit him because they don't like the attention he has given to climate change
Too freaking funny. Only Albots and watermelons would give Gore a pass for reducing his energy usage from 16,000kwh a month to 14,000kwh.
Good gravy! The man still uses over 10times what an average house uses and they hold him up as a model! A paragon of virtue!
Sorry, Al baby. You talk the talk you gotta walk the walk. And if the rest of us have to live in caves you should get a tent.
We’re all so impressed, Senior Gorbals.
How’s the Gorbal warming business treating you? I hear that the hysteria is starting to diminish. Time for another slide show? Bring your Peace Prize, that’ll show ‘em.
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"The Gores were caught flat-out as hypocrites by the Internet bloggers, who pointed out that while preacing conservation, they bask in the luxury of incredible energy consumption, and had to do some very visible CYA work," she said. "Tough luck if the government takes too much of your tax dollar, and you can't afford to make improvements like this yourself."
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Rush too, if I recall.
This is so typical of Lib-think. Now Algore has “fixed” this problem, as if by waving a magic wand. Any further criticism he may get for consuming so much energy at his mansion can be dismissed, because he “fixed” that problem.
Never mind the actual amount of consumption. Never mind the waste. Because for a Liberal, the results don’t matter. All that matters is that gestures were made in the right direction, and that everybody can feel good about themselves.
Now, I hate to be a mean Conservative results-oriented Troglodyte, but lets look at the numbers, shall we?
If we take the numbers in the article as a given, which may not be advisable, since we are dealing with people who lie for a living, it works out like this...
Average consumption before renovation - 16,000 kWh / month
Average consumption - Nashville - 1,300 kWh / month
Reduction in consumption June-Aug 07 - 6,890 kWh month
Estimated consumption after renovation - 16,000-(6,890/3) = 13,703 kWh / month
So, if we tale all of Algores figures as true, he has gone from consuming 12 times the average in his area to consuming 11 times the average in his area.
And for this, he is breaking his arm patting himself on the back, and getting accolades from all and sundry. If you ever wanted an example of the dishonest nature of the analysis applied by Liberals, this is it.
Gores' heated poolGuess he can't live without that. No reason to give up a winter swim just to be "green".
Anybody can fix up their 10,000 sq.ft home if they have a few extra million$$$ laying around...
Oh, wow, such sacrifice. And the AP and the rest of the liberal media is lionizing Gore for this? Hell, why don't they come over to my place, I got Gore beat all to hell on this. I don't have a pool. How's that for energy savings, Al? Why don't the media run a slobbering, fawning story about me (and many others) who don't have such luxuries. Think of all the energy we're saving.
I wonder if Al Gore has done enough research on this? He's preventing nature from taking its course!
1. He's blocking the sun from hitting the ground with his solar panels.
2. He's altering natural precipitation cycles by grabbing the clean rain, mixing it with sweat, soap, and coffee grounds before returning it to the earth where it was destined for.
3. He's messing with the temperature of the earth crust with the geothermal thing. This could have far-reaching effects that we don't even know about yet.
I think he needs to be very careful. The poor countries of the world aren't behaving this way...
LOL!! That is GREAT! Thanks!
Consider all the pollution he dumps into the environment with his jet setting.
You bet! Actually, I have cut my electric bill quite a lot more than Al did, just by buying compact fluorescents and a more efficient refrigerator when the old one bit the dust.
But what I did made economic sense.
This reminds me of a Sunday NY Times Living Section I saw a couple of months ago on Yuppie energy saving houses. All sorts of great ideas, if you can afford to pay several million for a house.
Oh, absolutely. Why those renovations OwlGore has put in will pay for themselves in a short 100 years or so.
Well, then why didn't he tear it down and start anew? Doesn't he care about the environment enough to do that? Better yet, why didn't he and Tipper downsize into a 2/2? They could've saved thousands of carbon emissions by merely getting into a smaller house.
Give that man a Blue Ribbon. 
Gasp!! I have a pool heater too, but I can't afford to run it--and I live in Florida!! It's 82 F outside right now.
So, this Smith character admits that algore’s house was an “energy pig”. And it was still an energy pig last February when the inconvenient “global warming deniers” pointed out the inconvenient fact that algore’s house used the energy each month that a typical house used in a year. But it all sounds very fishy to me. The gist of the article is that algore has done something tremendous for finally improving his energy consumption stats. But since the 11% improvement dates back to February, then it sounds to me that he did little if anything to improve his energy pig house’s energy consumption in the 4 prior years. (If he had, that would certainly have been figured into the statistics so that algore could to claim a higher score.) So, what it all boils down to apparently is that it took a group of “global warming deniers” to motivate algore to finally improve the energy consumption of his mansion.
In a related improvement, the Gore’s had the driveway banked to 33 degrees so that their son would not have to slow down while approaching the garage.
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