Sorry, but the pictures wouldn't copy. The text is enough to tell the story, though...
Scott
Subject: Fw: A tale of two houses...
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
nto 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.
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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."
I sure hope this gets passed to everyone!
And, yes ... I DID check Snopes prior to forwarding it.
You can verify it at:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house
