Posted on 07/20/2008 12:49:48 PM PDT by DaveTesla
Al Gore’s Personal Electricity Consumption Up 10% Despite “Energy-Efficient” Renovations
Energy guzzled by Al Gore’s home in past year could power 232 U.S. homes for a month
NASHVILLE – In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.
“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”
In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.
In February 2007, An Inconvenient Truth, a film based on a climate change speech developed by Gore, won an Academy Award for best documentary feature. The next day, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research uncovered that Gore’s Nashville home guzzled 20 times more electricity than the average American household.
After the Tennessee Center for Policy Research exposed Gore’s massive home energy use, the former Vice President scurried to make his home more energy-efficient. Despite adding solar panels, installing a geothermal system, replacing existing light bulbs with more efficient models, and overhauling the home’s windows and ductwork, Gore now consumes more electricity than before the “green” overhaul.
Since taking steps to make his home more environmentally-friendly last June, Gore devours an average of 17,768 kWh per month – 1,638 kWh more energy per month than the year before the renovations. By comparison, the average American household consumes 11,040 kWh in an entire year, according to the Energy Information Administration. The cost of Gore’s electric bills over the past year topped $16,533.
In the wake of becoming the most well-known global warming alarmist, Gore’s film won an Oscar, and he won a Grammy and the Nobel Peace Prize. In addition, Gore saw his personal wealth increase by an estimated $100 million thanks largely to speaking fees and investments related to global warming hysteria.
“Actions speak louder than words, and Gore’s actions prove that he views climate change not as a serious problem, but as a money-making opportunity,” Johnson said. “Gore is exploiting the public’s concern about the environment to line his pockets and enhance his profile.”
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a Nashville-based free market think tank and watchdog organization, obtained information about Gore’s home energy use through a public records request to the Nashville Electric Service.
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Not defending Algore in the least, but this sentence pointed out the author's agenda; 'twould be more accurate to just say ".....10 average homes for the same annual period".
Thanks, great post!
I’m cross posting this to today’s Sunday Talk Show Thread (Algore was on Meet the Press today, and told Tom Brokaw that he “was walking the walk” on being environmentally green.
“Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”
And a liar and a whale.
Heaven only knows how many Megawatts are consumed keeping the Gore kitchen’s vats of sausage gravy and bacon griddles running, feeding the bitter human dirigible.
The Goracle may have a massive “carbon footprint” but all those “carbon credits” he has makes him feel a hell of a lot better about it.
I got my electric bill yesterday and used 20 kwt per day less than last year.
Get on the stick, raise you thermostat to 80'instead of 76' like I did, install ceiling fans, turn down your water heater 15 degrees, turned down my pool filter down 30 minutes less per day, changed most of my light bulbs to the weird shaped ones, and most importantly charged my teenager .50 cents EVERY TIME he leaves a light or fan on
Actually it would be 19.3 homes.
213,210 kWh / 11,040 kWh.
What does one except from an “Elmer Gantry style snakeoil show”?
Actions speak louder than words
It has, but news like this never gets old....
Among the many things we pointed out to our kids while making it through “the inconvenient truth”, was how he was being flown around in near empty jets. How he was driven around in cabs, sometimes with police escort. This hypocrisy being only one thing among all the distortions, emotionalism, drama, politicization, and CONVENIENTLY left out truths in the movie. Notice how all the GW theorists are distancing themselves from Al now, where before he was their brave hero. Poor Al.
Dont forget Ah-nold the Goobinator....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2044917/posts?page=1#1
Not to worry Reverend algore wrote himself a check for the carbon credits.
If you like $5/gal, Thank Congress.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Al Gore is much like the pope telling people not to seek riches, when he is surrounded by great riches, with poor people in need all around him. Al Gore thinks nothing about conserving power in his own home.
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Even the snake oil salesmen don’t want anything to do with this BS artist.
This has been posted a few times, but I still like it.
BTW, I pointed a old wireless “baby monitor” vid-cam at my electric meter.
Just watching our usage, I cut our electric by 1/3rd. This monitoring effect is common, since once you see what your consumption is, you tend cut back without really thinking about it.
Our usage for 1700 sqft is now down to 340 kw-hrs per month. A tad less than the 17,000KWH+ of Mr. Gore.
Now we need some fuel stat’s form his transportation.
Bet that would be more like 1,000 X due to his SUV and
Gulfstream aircraft travel.
But I've been to 47 states, not 57...
That’s alright, he’s paying indulgences to people in Africa to stay in roadless areas and keep banging rocks together for fire.
If he pays to keep them from developing any industry, they’ll make up for all his excesses.
perhaps his real goal is to parlay global warming into making him a billionaire.
Bring me a cheeseburger this big, and another pitcher of gravy"
A Gulfstream jet holds 41,300 lbs of fuel.
jet fuel weighs about 6.75 lbs per gallon on a standard day
so the aircraft holds about 6,120 gallons of fuel
my car gets 22 MPG average
so one tankful of private jet fuel for Al would take my car 134,640 miles
the earth is about 24,900 miles around
so one tankful of fuel for Al Gore in a private jet would take my car around the world 5 and a half times
BTW I have had the car since 1999 and I have just under 130,000 miles on the car
so one tankful of jet fuel for Al to fly around and tell us to use less fuel could run my car for 9 YEARS!!!!
HIPPOCRITE!!!!
Yeah...I had a massive brain freeze doing the “fuzzy math”, which I realized shortly after I posted.
“raise you thermostat to 80’instead of 76”
Can you imagine the sweat under his multiple chins?
Yuck!
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