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05-26-2007, 09:32 PM
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just an email i came across
>> >> 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 ALONE this mansion consumes more >> energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The >>average >> bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In >> natural as alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this >> property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an >> American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern >> "snow belt," either. 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 contains only 4,000 square >> feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid 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 winter and cools >>it >> in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural >> gas, and it consumes 25% of the 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. Flowers and shrubs native to the area >> blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape. >> >> HOUSE # 1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee . It is the abode of >> that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore. >> >> HOUSE # 2 is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as >> "the Texas White House," it is the private residence of the President >>of >> the United States, George W. Bush. >> >> So whose house is gentler on the environment? Uh huh! >> >> Yet another story you WILL NOT hear on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, >> MSNBC or read about in the New York Times or the Washington Post. >> 
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05-26-2007, 11:21 PM
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Gore's house (in Belle Mead, TN) IS NOT a mansion. I have seen it. A ES300 was parked out front. There were lots of trees and plants around it.
Compare that to Bush's diesel F350 Crew Cab, armored Cadillac DTS, and Boeing 747-200, among other vehicles.
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05-27-2007, 08:48 AM
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 Bush thinks the ranch is his Carbon Offset for his other wastefulness. Sorry, 4,000,000 miles a year in a private jumbo jet + several thousand hours of a turbine helicopter + countless gas guzzling motorcades > house in the middle of nowhere he doesn't have to pay to get electricity 'trucked into still, it warms my heart to see politicians are living up to their reputation of being liars and hypocrites. 
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05-27-2007, 03:33 PM
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05-27-2007, 03:36 PM
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Schweet.
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2010 528Xi I demand justice. Or, if there must be injustice, let it be in my favor. Reynold's Wrap: it's not just for hats anymore. Quote:
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