Just got an email forward that turned out to be TRUE, even according to Snopes (which seems to lean a little left in its truthiness). I’ve been preaching for a while that politicians and Hollywood elites who tout “green” are massive hypocrites. How many more examples do we need?
HOUSE #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 ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern “snow belt,” either. It’s in the South.
HOUSE #2
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid 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 winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of 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. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.
HOUSE #1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.
HOUSE #2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as “the Texas White House,” it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.
So whose house is gentler on the environment? Yet another story you WON’T hear on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC or read about in the New York Times or the Washington Post. Indeed, for Mr. Gore, it’s truly “an inconvenient truth.”
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Amen to that. What truely astounds me is that people like Gore still have credibility. If everybody knew about things like this, global warming might be religated to being a mere conspiracy theory propogated for politicians to be able to have greater control over people’s personal lives and their businesses. Why else are they trying to shove down the Big 3′s throats the impractical and anti-economical (considering how much research has to be put into the research and developement of these things) of super-fuel efficient cars and fuel cells? It’s all about control.
OMG. Yeah I just realized how ironic my up coming summer vacation is. Going to see Glaciers in Alaska. You know, the melting ones? Going there on a enormous, greenhouse gas producing cruise ship!
Oh, but that’s simple. With all the “green living” craze these days, endorsing going green is just a great publicity stunt. You have nothing to lose (who’s going to hate you for that) and everything to gain (new fans).
amazing. i was a fan of al gore’s but if this is true that’s a shame. wouldn’t be surprising though considering the selfishness of politicians.
That is some staggering info there. I am so glad you brought this up. Yes, it is very hypocritical. But it’s nice to see someone show us examples of the hypocracy of the left.
“HOUSE #1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.”
To add to your list of hypocrites, you can list down those oil companies claiming to be more environmentally friendly or those cigarette companies advertising and selling their products with “smoking is dangerous to health” label. These hypocrites are not hateful, they’re comical, take for instance Al Gore.
Al Gore shouldn’t have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but rather the Academy Award for film making. To give him credit, his “Inconvenient Truth” was really filmed well.
Uh,… Bush ain’t the president no more, you should change that to say former president George W. Bush.
Do you watch the news? Obama’s in the house!
find it really ironic that al gore with all of his preaching about global warming and the movie he must have spent so much money on has the house with the expensive gas bill and uses up more then the average person while GWB didnt sign with china for the carbon fuel emmisions while he was in office and has a VERY eco friendly house. he could be living in luxury but i guess thats a personal decision. politicians only care about the governtment and what they say in front of cameras or in the public eye i guess “going green” doesnt apply when there home. is this really the people we look up 2… or at least listen to or follow. we put them in office =(
Hooray for George Bush and his family. If he believed in “green” housing so much, why didn’t he enact more “green” legislation? The average citizen cannot afford to build a “green” house or retro-fit an older home with more environmentally friendly luxuries like he has. Wow, he is wonderful b/c his house is “green.” Great, he is able to save on electricity bills, gas bills, etc. while the rest of us continue to pay them b/c we cannot afford to do all these wonderful things to our homes. It is ironic b/c he is the one who can pay the bills very easily with all of his wealth from the OIL industry. Yes, he pandered to that industry while screwing the American people for 8 years, the same people he was elected to protect. Also, why didn’t he try to enact legislation when he was in office to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or the carbon footprint of many industries, businesses, etc.? Does he think that he will be saved when the world is no longer livable? Probably.
Al Gore wrote a book ASSUALT ON REASON what a swaggering nit-wit nincompoop he has a chip on hi shoulder mostly the big block of wood on top of his neck
It is unfortunate that this kind of behavior is not reported on the major news networks. Instead we get stories about Brittany Spears and her parenting skills and things of the like. It seems that we (average Americans) never get the real facts until years later. I want the right to be outraged at the time of the occurrence.
I never knew that about Gore. This was a very interesting point. I will pass this around the office.
@Jim,
So true. After all those talks. Look who’s wasting much nature. A very informative post!
what an inconvenient truth! Agree that sometimes there is too much hype on going green yet media tend to distort the truth about the real cost of such green initiatives.
Indeed, this is an “inconvenient truth”! You’ve done a nice research. I hope more research should be done on this one.
Well, that’s true. They’re hypocrites. Their actions are opposite of what they’re supposed to believe. We can see it clearly on the homes they built.