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Glass Houses?
I thought this was worth passing on.
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 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.
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 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 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.
HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; It is the home of the ‘Environmentalist’ [hypocrite] Al Gore.
HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford ,Texas; it is the residence of the Ex-President of the United States, George W. Bush.
THIS is the definition of an " inconvenient truth " !!!
And, yes … I DID check Snopes prior to forwarding it.
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isn’t that just peachy.
Mr Gore has got to be one of the biggest hypocrites on the planet.
Oh I forgot it’s probably ok because he planted 6 extra trees.
What a load of infuriating bull sh1t.
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quote Michael Potter:isn’t that just peachy.
Mr Gore has got to be one of the biggest hypocrites on the planet.
Oh I forgot it’s probably ok because he planted 6 extra trees.
What a load of infuriating bull sh1t.
cheers Mike (:)Mike, my view has always been that Al Gore had the best position to state his case as VP of the USA. Whether he didn’t have the freedom to express his views, or whether he decided that he could make more money once out of public office, both are irrelevant given that he is a ‘do as I say, not do as I do’ sorta guy.
Typical politician. Sadly, people worship the guy and hang off his every word, when in actual fact he is dishonest in the most basic sense. Its the blind leading the blind. Unfortunately because he is high profile, wealthy and championing the environment, people assume his motives are legit, when in actual fact, he sees it as a money making business like everything else.
It is happening everywhere. Give it a green credential and people assume its got to be better. I see some suppliers here are getting the ‘green tick’ for supplying aluminum rather than steel products now.
The eco set only need to visit an aluminum smelter to see how stupid that concept is. 👿
Rant over 😳
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