Steve Smith, executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, appears in this film and will participate in our March 22 panel discussion. He will also present Al Gore’s slideshow on March 23,” she said. Click and scroll down to Mar. 11
I'm so glad the AP found an objective source to evaluate goron's home.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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?
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.
So I guess Algore's house is still NOT up to the standards of Bush's ranch in Crawford?
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.
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.