Posted on 12/13/2007 12:25:15 PM PST by 10Ring
“Gore’s improvements cut the home’s summer electrical consumption by 11 percent compared with a year ago, according to utility records reviewed by The Associated Press. Most Nashville homes used 20 percent to 30 percent more electricity during the same period because of a record heat wave.”
Makes it sound like the rest of us here used more this summer than he did, don’t it?
He should have torn it down and built a new place in China, because that's what manufacturers in America will do if forced to go green. If you're going to be forced to "go green', do it in China and get low labor costs to offset the investment.
How much you want to bet that Al and Tipper left the house EMPTY during that hot spell, and that the airco didn't need to run because THEY WEREN'T EVEN THERE. They were using a gazillion kilowatts somewhere else, that somewhere being some place they flew to on a private jet.
The difference between your heated pool and Gore’s is you’re not telling me how to live my life or scheming on ways to steal my money. Gore is. So if you do get a chance to fire up the ole pool, I wish you some good swim-time. Whereas Gore, I hope he has a pee-accident and then drowns in his own diluted stink.
How’d you like to see Al G cannonball into that steamy pool of his?
If I knew how to photoshop...
So Al Gore upgraded his house.... This should move the end of the world back a couple years, to something like 2019.
So I guess Algore's house is still NOT up to the standards of Bush's ranch in Crawford?
Al cannonballing into his own heated pool.
Talk about a GlowBall Warming.
If he bought that house in 2002 for $2.3M, something fishy is going on. A teardown in that neighborhood would go for well over a million.
I don’t see a calculation for: (1) the emissions from the vehicles that the contractors drove to get to the Gore house to make the renovations, (2) the emissions from fuel-powered machinery used in the renovations, (3) the emissions from the power plant that produced the electricity used in the electric equipment used for the renovations, (4) the emissions created by the production of the materials used in the renovations, etc. etc.
I bet any pollution reduction caused by the renovations will be more than offset by the above-described pollution.
I wonder if the U. S. Green Building Council has anything to say about President and Mrs. Bush’s home in Crawford? It was DESIGNED and BUILT with all those energy saving features in place. They didn’t have to be shamed into making their home environmentally friendly, and they’ve been saving energy all these years while Algore has been wasting it.
Ya got me thinking...when I go on vacation in the winter (read flee WI winter) I do love the decrease in my heating, elec. etc. If the whole Goronic family was out of the house while they made these “renovations” — no a/c,no lights at night, Al’s midnight run to the microwave, yada yada and you’re at 11% just by inactivity. Prove it Goron!
oh puleeze. Every time he showers he causes an oilslick....
It's the hypocrisy, stupid! Don't live in a 10,000 sq ft mansion while telling the rest of us that we need to cut back and conserve. It is the height of hypocrisy.
Link below is an article that is hostile to Bush but raves about his “green” ranch:
Does that not now make his estate a federally protected "wet-land"?
And how much did this renovation cost? And how much energy/money will it save each year? And how many years will it take to reach payback?
Hey, Al, if it works, why don’t you renovate my house? It would be a bit more realistic for the general public than your mansion.
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