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

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do either of them ride?

Originally Posted by Bonafide

do either of them ride?

+1

Really!

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Originally Posted by Bonafide

do either of them ride?

not exactly ATGATT

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One of Al Gores 'Let's save our planet' lectures was recently screened here on TV. I thought that I ought to watch it. All he did was trundle out mind bending statistics, one after the other, 'backed up' by unstubstantiated facts. I was suitably unimpressed.

However, I guess he is getting some sort of message re conservation across to millions of people & I suppose that must be doing some good.

But I seriously doubt that he practices any of the good things that he preaches.

DaveB.

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Originally Posted by KingBear

Do you mean to imply that Al Gore is a profiteering hypocrite? Take it back. Take it back right now! The world will know the truth by 2014.

Oh golly gosh, I've been challenged . I unreservedly apologize for my comment: I was totally wrong.

I obviously concede that, from an eco point of view, it was perfectly justified to fly in about a 100 limos & about 1,000 staff to support him on his official visit here, as VP of the USA, a few years ago. Perfectly justified .

DaveB.

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Gore has got to be the biggest douche on the planet. I'm not overly fond of Bush either, but, I could at least have a beer with the guy and talk bikes while his eyes glazed over. Gore would call me a worthless conservative and tell me my bike was adding to global waming because the open exhaust caused a cow to fart and heat the planet by.00000000000000000010 of a degree. douche.

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