Weakness?
gas lamps in the yard are not an indulgance in driving a bit too fast or
fogetting to turn off the light in the kitchen.
If you dont see anything wrong with that then I suppose you would accept Bush
as a spokesman for civil liberty
and honesty in politics.
Kirk
Terry Dyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Kirk,
When a do gooder becomes as famous as Al Gore there are always going to be
people who will point out weeknesses that he may have. On the other hand I
am looking at the good that Al Gore has done at educating the public about
Global Warming. The "Live Earth" concert that Al Gore is doing on July 7,
2007 on 7 continents will be one of the best things to educate people and
make them aware of GHG s. Billions of people will watch this 24 hour
concert all over this planet.
When it comes to walking the walk, some people have done this and the media
hasn't really picked up on it. In Canada the national leader of the N.D.P
federal political party, Jack Layton, bikes to work and has solar power and
heating in his home and does other green things but this is not known by
very many people. On the other hand the Prime Minister of Canada gets lots
of publicity about green issues and doesn't do much in the way of actions.
Terry Dyck
>From: Kirk McLoren
>Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
>To: biofuel
>Subject: [Biofuel] Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' Power Use
>Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:57:43 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>
> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }
> 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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