Posted on 12/13/2007 12:25:15 PM PST by 10Ring
I've got an idea. Let's rip Al's house down and replace it with 11 normal houses for 11 families and we will accomplish the same thing he did.
Unlike the Gores's who have literally hundreds of millions of dollars to make home improvements, most Americans can't drop a huge piece of their home equity into making home their greener to save them maybe $50.00 a month avg.
I need new energy efficient windows: $5,000
I need to add solar water heater panels: $ 3,500
I need to replace my (new) water heater with state of the art system: $1,500
Al Gore send me a check for $10,000 and I'd be green like you !!!
Hmm. I wonder who actually paid for this renovation?
Notice how AP mentions the fact that our president’s ranch uses 1/100000th of the resources of Al gore’s heated swimming pool?
No, we were trying to discredit you because you are a hypocritical a**clown. Just setting the record straight, I am.
Simple enough! Let’s pull his energy use for the previous year and see if it matches the one that the “global warming denier” groups were trying to discredit him with if it all accounted for remodeling.
My brother built his dream house about 10 years back, and incorporated energy conservation into the design. He wound up saving money by passing on the air conditioning system (he just built something with tremendous thermal mass, which works well in Sonoma, CA), and took advantage of natural lighting.
He never even bothered to calculate the payback. The place is beautiful. You can live your life with natural light during daylight hours and you never hear a furnace or fan going. It really is spectacular.
But at the end of the day, aesthetics drove the design as much as energy conservation. Energy conservation was a by-product of the aesthetic.
Note: They only claimed an 11% decrease !!!
The itemized decrease you are stating is much more than 11%. (1,700 kW/month) Where is the error in their numbers?
The only actual consumption figures were the summertime decrease from last year, so that is what I used. But you are right, it winds up being more than 11%, but it is the same nieghborhood.
The point is, Algore changed his house from an energy pig to a slightly leaner energy pig, and now he is breaking his arm patting himself on the back, and all the green weenies are going to pretend that his house is the very essence of green responsibility.
I would have to run my air conditioner 24/7 with the windows and doors open and have every light on all the time to get near the energy consumption figures Algore is so proud of.
Do as we say, not as we do.
How many people live in this joint?
What I’d like to know is how they find one another. Do they leave a trail of bread crumbs?
Of course I could care less about over consumption as our economy is based on people buying crap they don't need, I just hate these types. It is because of people like Al Gore, that I fill my car up with gas on ozone action days in the dead of the afternoon.
thanks for mentioning that. IMHO anybody who has the means and desire to get off the grid, more power to them.
Caves are more temperature-stable, and resource-friendly. LOL
Good...now let’s get the fat b@stard to peddle a bike to work...
oh wait...
work?
Silly me.
Hold on, in case anyone missed this throw away line. As others have pointed out, Al Gore spent a lot of money so he would feel a lot better about using a lot more electricity than probably any other resident in the area.
I’m in the middle of putting in a woodstove right now. I have unlimited access to wood, and the equipment to get it somewhat easily.
Natural gas used to be the way to go. tripled in 10 years.
screw ‘em
Mr. C4E and I have a wood stove too. Warms the main part of the house with one presto log for an evening. Works for me.
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