Fogbuster

A Tale of Two Homes


Home #1:

A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400 per month.. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern 'snow belt' area.. It's in the South.


Home #2

Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every 'green' feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.

The water (usually 67 degrees F) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape. The heating/cooling system is so efficient that initial plans to install solar panels were canceled.

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HOME #1 is outside of Nashville , Tennessee ;

it is the abode of the 'Environmentalist' Al Gore.




HOME #2 is on a ranch near Crawford , Texas ;

it is the residence of the former President of the United States , George W. Bush.

Yes, it's "An inconvenient truth.."

I sure hope this gets passed to everyone!

And, yes ... I DID check Snopes prior to forwarding it.

You can verify it at :

snopes.com: A Tale of Two Houses


OUCH!!!!

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Fogbuster

Yo, people, this is some good food for thought, yo!!!


Or have you all been beaten into submission by the "Doomsdayers"????

"Coldest year on record. We could use some 'global warming'." -- Most of the world



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tanked_as_usual

you won't hear much from the lefties on this one

DarrylS

Bush is very wise with regards to this, an oil man who knows that we are closing in on the end of fossil fuel.. this has been discussed and acknowledged before.. but he does not live here any more.

As far as Gore goes.. he is what he is..just another politician.

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tanked_as_usual

yes, but he had you all eating from his hand when his movie came out.........nice 20/20 hindsight

Holy Diver

wow...spam emails from 4 years ago....?


great....

Patters

I think Bush would have supported global warming if it was not for the pressure of the Republican Party. He made a number of sympathetic statements about global warming, and his home seems to offer proof of his concern. Al Gore demonstrates his concern through his constant advocacy for the issue. I suppose Al Gore is sort of like a rich preacher who delivers sermons about our obligations to the poor.

Luke 12:33
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

tanked_as_usual

or.......just a hypocrite

tanked_as_usual

hence 'classic'

so what.....the waterboarding happened even further back, but it doesn't stop you

DarrylS

Here is that assumption stuff again, check my 16K posts have never said anything in praise of Al or what he says.. the problem is you assume that everyone on the left thinks alike, like everyone on the right.. while in reality the left espouses independent thought and discussion, not lockstep lemming behavior.

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"Being the best doesn't mean you always win. It just means you win more than anyone else".. tweet from Kurt Warner to Tom Brady.