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. 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 abode of the "environmentalist" Al Gore.
HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford,Texas; it is the residence the of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.
An "inconvenient truth".
BTW: This isn't really important but while I was on the computer, Andy Rooney did his little spiel and it was about President Bush and he ended by saying alot of people wish W would stay on his ranch in Texas. Do you think Andy's feelings would be hurt if he knew how many people think he should remove himself from the tv? That's right, gasbag, get lost!
Purrfect Loaf
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I wish President Bush were still on his ranch today rather than being where is and doing what he’s doing --- attending the third summit meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, in Montebello, Quebec, at the five-star Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello resort.
ReplyDeleteI must say, the SPP is bad news.
ReplyDeleteGore's hypocrisy is of legendary proportions, too.