[10Ring]

Stephen Smith, executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, said the size of Gore's house limits how much he can cut his energy consumption.

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.

[Popman]

"One of the things that is tremendously powerful about what the Gores have done is demonstrate that you can take a home that was a dog, and absolute energy pig, and do things to correct that that," Shinn said.

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 !!!

[JennysCool]

Hmm. I wonder who actually paid for this renovation?

[Cementjungle]

Notice how AP mentions the fact that our president’s ranch uses 1/100000th of the resources of Al gore’s heated swimming pool?

[xroadie]

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.

No, we were trying to discredit you because you are a hypocritical a**clown. Just setting the record straight, I am.

[moonman]

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.

[mewzilla]

...the 10,000-square-foot mansion...

Do as we say, not as we do.

[LukeL]

How about only having one fridge, one car per adult person in the home, fly on commercial jets, 1.5 bathrooms, no pool, or any other over the top thing no one really needs, instead of weatherstripping your windows, or doubling the insualtion in your walls.

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.

[tpanther]

Good...now let’s get the fat b@stard to peddle a bike to work...

oh wait...

work?

Silly me.

[DouglasKC]

Electricity usage at the home remains well above regional averages,

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.

[GATOR NAVY]

"Short of tearing it down and staring anew, I don't know how it could have been rated any higher," said Kim Shinn of the U.S. Green Building Council.

Al says "Thanks, dude."