Drudge: GORE MANSION USES 20X AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD
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You have got to love the hypocrisy:
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.
Gore’s mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).
In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.
The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.
Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.
Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.
Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.
“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.
In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.
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Has to have a copy of Al Gore's travel and speaking engagement contract requirements, like we've already seen for Rudy Giuliani on The Smoking Gun. I'll bet Al has a few more Inconvnient Truths to tell when it comes to mandating that everyone's energy prices rise so that he can have his Monopoly Money Scheme. How many aircraft pilots does it take to screw in Al Gore's lightbulbs?
I am still upset his electric rates are better than mine.
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Kind of like catching Jerry Falwell in bed with a hooker.
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that free traders and capitalists would actually understand the concept of carbon offsets.
I humbly suggest to those with an honorable interest in the Gore household's energy consumption to give the former vice president a modicum of benefit of the doubt, by actually listening to his rebuttal. Or maybe not; perhaps honor and courtesy are not renewable resources.
As for the Tennessee Center for Policy and Research, the actual State of Tennessee considers them an illegitimate organization.
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that the Emperor would notice he is cold and would put some clothes on at some point.
Mr. Gore's purchase of carbon offsets is a red herring. Mr. Gore is confronted with his own extravagant energy use, and says, "It doesn't matter, because I can afford it."
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while the left becomes angry about these things ?
First
I notice you are attacking the messenger who was attacked because some people didn't like what they had to say. No rebuttal just some mud thrown.
Second Carbon Neutrality
Just how much will buying your power from a nuke plant get you ? And let me ask this just how does it take the carbon out of the air ? If a windmill makes power economically you hardly need to purchase an offset.
As to the rebuttal you linked to your comment here
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
He talks about how they're incorporating all this energy efficient stuff in his house (solar panels, compact fluorescent lamps, etc.).
But, if you read the report, you find that his consumption of traditional energy has actually been increasing in the last year or so....even while he's ostensibly not been home much.
So the answer to global warming isn't conservation after all. Rather, it's an additive solution: plant more trees!
I think I'm in.
sadly, not available in factoid or soundbite format.
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Ok aside from making a guy with a windmill wealthy, what does that accomplish ?
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
He's telling us that we need to use less energy than we do....that we use too much of it for our lavish lifestyles, etc. Whatever one's feelings about the use of offsets as something of an end run around hypocrisy, shouldn't Gore also be walking his talk?
Good grief, for all the crap GWB takes from the environut left, he seems to have figured this out with his house (warning: click that link at your own risk).
What makes it worse is that his consumption, since the release of his film telling us all to reduce our consumption, has actually risen.
Face it, Gore's a hypocrite on this issue...just like the rest of the phonies that we going wild for him at the Oscars. None of them live their lives the way they're telling us we have to live our lives. Quite the contrary. They all have huge houses, fly in private jets, etc.
There's nothing wrong with admitting hypocrisy when you see it.
The president is harrased for having a modest eco friendly home, and gore is praised for having the carbon footprint of a coal fired power plant.
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...but, when the Bush Administration proposed expanding this very thing for industrial emissions vouchers, he was roundly excoriated by the AGW nuts.
Why is such a thing OK for Gore and the Hollyweirdos to do, but not GE and Whirlpool?
If carbon offsets are an acceptable form of personal action against global warming, why don't these folks just tell us we have to plant a bunch of trees rather than get rid of our SUVs, energy inefficient appliances, and incandescent light bulbs?
These things -- which, when you think about it, really resemble the indulgences that drove Martin Luther to leave the Catholic Church -- seem like a blessing! I can still be a greedy pig with natural resources, as long as I plant enough trees.
Ahhhhh....absolution!
I have adopted a pagan baby. In return for a small donation each month, I am allowed to use not only my own, but the pagan baby's carbon allotment. Living in the stone age, the pagan baby has no use for it. Plus, if you order now, you also get a tree planted in your name in the Brazilian rain forest.
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If memory serves, when the draft was instituted during the American Civil War, there was a provision included where the rich could either buy their way out or pay someone else to serve in their stead.
Carbon offsets sounds a lot like that. As long as you have enough money, you can live better than the great unwashed and pay someone to make it all better.
It's really great to be one of the more equal pigs.
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I have to admit it, when a blow hard gets caught out and there is really no defense but they make a phony defense anyway that is even more absurd than the original news of the absurd it just delights me!
It couldn't happen at a better time to a bigger(huge) hypocrite! Now all we need is a chart plotting fuel usage for is jets, power usage for events he speaks at etc, sort of an ongoing litany of AlGorisms...
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Did I really read a defense of his "Carbon Voucher Offset" rebuttal?
Anything I say here will really just be a poor attempt to plagerize the Captain, so here is what he has to say:
"Purchasing offsets only means that Gore doesn't want to make the same kind of sacrifices that he's asking other families to make. He's using a modern form of indulgences in order to avoid doing the penance that global-warming activism demands of others. It means that the very rich can continue to suck up energy and raise the price and the demand for electricity and natural gas, while families struggle with their energy costs and face increasing government regulation and taxation. It's a regressive plan that Gore's supporters would decry if the same kind of scheme were applied to a national sales tax, for instance."
- Captainsquartersblog.com
Seriously is this what people are using to attack Gore?
This maybe needs an Award of Most Desperate Attack.
btw - I do believe in Global Warming so while I might not agree with Al Gore on some issues I do with him on this one.
This is in addition to the heavy artillery, which will only be trotted out if the Gorecaster enters the race.
Since President Bush† has the power to turn hurricanes on and off at will, look for it to rain sideways in Nashville.
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† Well, Karl Rove actually
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You'd think he'd be able to conserve on the natural gas bills, at the very least. I know personally that since he lost the election in 2000, Al Gore has created so much natural gas that he could heat his own home with a funnel and a cigarette lighter. Tipper would have to get out of the way, and there could be some Inconvenient Butt-Hair burning, but believe me, the man could accomplish it if he really tried.
But let's be less graphic and more appropriate to the point of your story. I'm sure that's not Al's only home. The Inconvenient Truth is that he has more than one residence, that just happens to be the largest of them.