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***patsfan13*** · 03-04-2007, 09:46 PM

Too much fun, walking the walk as opposed to talking the talk.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.c...c-e362782ce790

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Former Vice President Al Gore has been criticized for his rather large electric bills ($30,000 a year) at his home in Tennessee. (Link) What you might not have heard about is how environmentally friendly President George Bush's home is in Crawford Texas. Below is a partial reprint from the Chicago Tribune from April 29, 2001.
Chicago Tribune
Bush loves ecology --at home
April 29, 2001

By Rob Sullivan. Rob Sullivan is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles
The 4,000-square-foot house is a model of environmental rectitude.

Geothermal heat pumps located in a central closet circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet deep in the ground where the temperature is a constant 67 degrees; the water heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. Systems such as the one in this "eco-friendly" dwelling use about 25% of the electricity that traditional heating and cooling systems utilize.

A 25,000-gallon underground cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof runs; wastewater from sinks, toilets and showers goes into underground purifying tanks and is also funneled into the cistern. The water from the cistern is used to irrigate the landscaping surrounding the four-bedroom home. Plants and flowers native to the high prairie area blend the structure into the surrounding ecosystem.

No, this is not the home of some eccentrically wealthy eco-freak trying to shame his fellow citizens into following the pristineness of his self-righteous example. And no, it is not the wilderness retreat of the Sierra Club or the Natural Resources Defense Council, a haven where tree-huggers plot political strategy.

This is President George W. Bush's "Texas White House" outside the small town of Crawford

[EPW Note: The President’s House in Crawford was designed to be eco-friendly.]

According to David Heymann, the house's architect and associate dean of the University of Texas architecture department, Heymann designed the house so that "every room has a relationship with something in the landscape that's different from the room next door. Each of the rooms feels like a slightly different place."

In a USA Today interview, Heymann said, "There's a great grove of oak trees to the west that protects it from the late afternoon sun. Then there is a view out to the north looking at hills, and to the east out over a lake, and the view to the south . . . out to beautiful hills."

wistahpatsfan · 03-05-2007, 05:33 AM

They're both heavily invested in these, so neither one of the is 'Green".

***patsfan13*** · 03-05-2007, 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by wistahpatsfan

They're both heavily invested in these, so neither one of the is 'Green".

Yeah but Bush isn't telling you not to take your kids fishing in a pickup truck of you'll destroy the world or pretending to be carbon neutral.

Holy Diver · 03-05-2007, 11:40 AM

This is the same "green" president that lifted restrictions of coal plant pollutions?

seriously?

***Harry Boy*** · 03-05-2007, 11:44 AM

Bush clears brush with his bare hands, I wonder if Gore has ever cleared brush

wistahpatsfan · 03-05-2007, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by patsfan13

Yeah but Bush isn't telling you not to take your kids fishing in a pickup truck of you'll destroy the world or pretending to be carbon neutral.

I fu-kin KNEW you were going to say that!

***patsfan13*** · 03-05-2007, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Holy Diver

This is the same "green" president that lifted restrictions of coal plant pollutions?

seriously?

Link so we can see what exactly you are talkin about?

***patsfan13*** · 03-05-2007, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by wistahpatsfan

I fu-kin KNEW you were going to say that!

BTW without those evil oil refineries and terrible coal plants you would be freezing to death tonight,.

wistahpatsfan · 03-05-2007, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by patsfan13

BTW without those evil oil refineries and terrible coal plants you would be freezing to death tonight,.

Not me!
I heat with wood. Got plenty.

Do you have any idea how much toxins those plants put into the air?
Not to mention the infernal machines that use the product like cars and generator plants.
Mercury and lead are major causes of neurological damage in children living in close proximity to plants. I know you don't like that.

***patsfan13*** · 03-05-2007, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by wistahpatsfan

Not me!
I heat with wood. Got plenty.

Do you have any idea how much toxins those plants put into the air?
Not to mention the infernal machines that use the product like cars and generator plants.
Mercury and lead are major causes of neurological damage in children living in close proximity to plants. I know you don't like that.

OOOOWWWWWW worse for the enviro than petrochemicals, not very carbon neutral, you are destroying the planet, we're all gonna die because fo people like you with their evil fireplaces and wood stoves, for shame!