Everyone seems to have missed that, based on the numbers given, Al
Gore has reduced his power usage by 12% from 2005 to 2006 and has
plans for more reductions. Isn't that what it's all about?
The fact that his bill has gone up is probably a function of the
increased price of energy, not increased consumption. I'm sure it's
the same for all of us.
Steve
Quoting Kirk McLoren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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>
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> Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth': While telling the rest of us to
> cut back, he uses 20 times more energy to run his house than
> everyone else
> http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=5072659
>
> Heated pools
electronic gates
gas lanterns in yard
and $30,000 a
> year in utility bills. How do you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e?
>
> (2/27/07 - NASHVILLE, TN) - Back home in Tennessee, safely
> ensconced in his suburban Nashville home, Vice President Al Gore is
> no doubt basking in the Oscar awarded to "An Inconvenient Truth,"
> the documentary he inspired and in which he starred. But a local
> free-market think tank is trying to make that very home emblematic
> of what it deems Gore's environmental hypocrisy.
>
> Armed with Gore's utility bills for the last two years, the
> Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged Monday that the gas and
> electric bills for the former vice president's 20-room home and
> pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more
> than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.
>
> "If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility
> bills, I wouldn't care," says the Center's 27-year-old president,
> Drew Johnson. "But he tells other people how to live and he's not
> following his own rules."
>
> Scoffed a former Gore adviser in response: "I think what you're
> seeing here is the last gasp of the global warming skeptics. They've
> completely lost the debate on the issue so now they're just
> attacking their most effective opponent."
>
> Kalee Kreider, a spokesperson for the Gores, did not dispute the
> Center's figures, taken as they were from public records. But she
> pointed out that both Al and Tipper Gore work out of their home and
> she argued that "the bottom line is that every family has a
> different carbon footprint. And what Vice President Gore has asked
> is for families to calculate that footprint and take steps to reduce
> and offset it."
>
> A carbon footprint is a calculation of the CO2 fossil fuel
> emissions each person is responsible for, either directly because of
> his or her transportation and energy consumption or indirectly
> because of the manufacture and eventual breakdown of products he or
> she uses. (You can calculate your own carbon footprint on the
> website http://www.carbonfootprint.com/)
>
> The vice president has done that, Kreider argues, and the family
> tries to offset that carbon footprint by purchasing their power
> through the local Green Power Switch program electricity generated
> through renewable resources such as solar, wind, and methane gas,
> which create less waste and pollution. "In addition, they are in the
> midst of installing solar panels on their home, which will enable
> them to use less power," Kreider added. "They also use compact
> fluorescent bulbs and other energy efficiency measures and then they
> purchase offsets for their carbon emissions to bring their carbon
> footprint down to zero."
>
> These efforts did little to impress Johnson. "I appreciate the
> solar panels," he said, "but he also has natural gas lanterns in his
> yard, a heated pool, and an electric gate. While I appreciate that
> he's switching out some light bulbs, he is not living the lifestyle
> that he advocates."
>
> The Center claims that Nashville Electric Services records show
> the Gores in 2006 averaged a monthly electricity bill of $1,359 for
> using 18,414 kilowatt-hours, and $1,461 per month for using 16,200
> kilowatt-hours in 2005. During that time, Nashville Gas Company
> billed the family an average of $536 a month for the main house and
> $544 for the pool house in 2006, and $640 for the main house and
> $525 for the pool house in 2005. That averages out to be $29,268 in
> gas and electric bills for the Gores in 2006, $31,512 in 2005.
>
>
>
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