George Bush More “Green” Than Gore
Is it possible that George Bush is a secret Green? Evidently his Crawford Winter White House has 25,000 gallons of rainwater storage, gray water collection from sinks and showers for irrigation, passive solar, geothermal heating and cooling. “By marketplace standards, the house is startlingly small,” says David Heymann, the architect of the 4,000-square-foot home. “Clients of similar ilk are building 16-to-20,000-square-foot houses.”
Furthermore for thermal mass the walls are clad in “discards of a local stone called Leuders limestone, which is quarried in the area. The 12-to-18-inch-thick stone has a mix of colors on the top and bottom, with a cream-colored center that most people want. “They cut the top and bottom of it off because nobody really wants it,” Heymann says. “So we bought all this throwaway stone. It’s fabulous. It’s got great color and it is relatively inexpensive.”
Meanwhile, at Stately Gore Manor in Nashville….
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.“In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.”
Pajamas Media has exclusive photos of the Gore Mansion here.
Oh.. remember how Bush’s Crawford, TX house is only 4,000 square feet? Well, check this out.
According to Schweizer, the Gores own three homes: a 10,000-square-foot home in Nashville, Tennessee; a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Virginia (across the Potomac River from Washington, DC); and a third home of undisclosed size in Carthage, Tennessee. Neutral Source has verified the Gores own a 2.1 acre property at 312 Lynnwood Blvd. in the Belle Meade section of Nashville, Tennessee
According to MLS data, these houses are 9,727, 7,340, and 9,878 square feet respectively. So we can confirm that it’s quite plausible that the Gores’ Nashville home is, as Schweizer claims, 10,000 square feet.
Gulfstream Liberals at it again. Do as I say, not as I do. But at least Gore doesn’t have the largest home in the county he lives in. That prize falls to the Democrats’ 2004 Veep candidate, John “Two Americas” Edwards and his sprawling, energy-sucking, 28,000 square foot luxury estate.
What hypocrites. They don’t want to save energy, they want power (in many ways) for themselves. They just don’t want YOU to have the lifestyle you have earned for yourself.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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What is Al Gore doing in his spare-time, smelting aluminum in his basement? Tin-foil hats for everyone…..
Comment by Ted B. (Charging Rhino) — February 28, 2007 @ 12:03 pm - February 28, 2007
Ahem.
But don’t be silly. The Gores are Democrats, the usual rules don’t apply to them. That’s why William “Cold Cash” Jefferson is sitting on the Homeland Security Committee instead of a prison cell like Duke Cunningham or Bob Ney. That’s why Ted Kennedy can stop windmill farms from going up in his Atlantic Ocean. That’s why Gerry Studds got to bang all the underage teenage boys he wanted to. That’s why the Democrats can sell access to committee chairmen without anybody calling it a “culture of corruption.” That’s why Nancy Pelosi can exempt her corporate clients at Del Monte from minimum wage laws. That’s why Jack Murtha can steer defense contracts to companies his brother “consults” for. That’s why Steny Hoyer can take planeloads of lobbyists to a lush Caribbean resort in return for donations to his PAC.
If you’re a Democrat, there is only one sin, and that is to support American victory in the war on terror. Anything else, you get a pass.
Comment by V the K — February 28, 2007 @ 12:10 pm - February 28, 2007
Though I’ve seen no hard evidence, Gore does “claim” to purchase “carbon credits” to offset his global footprint. Sure he does.
Comment by DoorHold — February 28, 2007 @ 12:11 pm - February 28, 2007
Does anyone else suspect “carbon offsets” are a scam to get money from dopey, guilt-ridden Gaiaists?
Comment by V the K — February 28, 2007 @ 12:14 pm - February 28, 2007
The Bush house sounds like the house my son and I have been talking about building… recycled construction materials, rainwater collectors, passive solar, efficiency. We’ve been buying books and studying different construction approaches.
Comment by V the K — February 28, 2007 @ 12:19 pm - February 28, 2007
It’s very similar to the ranch house I grew up in, V the K; solid limestone construction with nearly two-foot-thick walls, a cistern, tucked into the side of a hill and oriented south, with solid walls against the afternoon sun in the west and the prevailing winds in the north, with a nicely-planted grove of trees to protect the house from said winds.
And the place was built in 1853.
Even when my parents, staunch Republicans, built a new house, they did exactly the same; superinsulated walls, double-paned gas-sealed windows, passive solar built to maximize both heat and light during the winter, built into a hill slope to take advantage of the earth’s thermal mass, a whole-house fan for ventilation — with the net result being a house in which the furnace really isn’t needed and in which the air conditioning doesn’t have to be run until the nighttime temperature low stays above 75 degrees.
And we’re the kind of people that trust-fund babies like Al Gore say are wasteful and inefficient.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — February 28, 2007 @ 12:39 pm - February 28, 2007
It’s unfair to compare the Gore mansion’s consumption to the Bush ranch’s consumption.
You see, everyone knows Gore won the 2000 election and deserves to be President this minute (2007). In his Green efforts, Gore is acting as President of the World, his rightful role. So, to compare apples to apples, we must compare Gore’s consumption to the White House, or to Kofi Annan’s estates and offices.
(if any lefty out there is nodding your head in agreement: get your brain checked)
Comment by Calarato — February 28, 2007 @ 12:53 pm - February 28, 2007
Bruce, slight error toward the end. I’m sure it’s a typo, but I’m also sure some lefty will try to blow it out of proportion.
A sentence should read either as -
“That prize falls to his >party’s
Comment by Calarato — February 28, 2007 @ 1:01 pm - February 28, 2007
former Veep candidate, John “Two Americas” Edwards…”
or as:
“That prize falls to Kerry’s former Veep candidate, John “Two Americas” Edwards…”
Comment by Calarato — February 28, 2007 @ 1:02 pm - February 28, 2007
Two words for Gore and Edwards: “champagne socialists.”
‘Nuff said.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — February 28, 2007 @ 1:10 pm - February 28, 2007
Ah, yes — liberalism for thee, but not for me. Apparently, avarice is the new black.
Comment by HardHobbit — February 28, 2007 @ 1:14 pm - February 28, 2007
Of course, the Gores carbon footprint includes their posh $1.8m San Francisco condo in the uber-cool St Regis Towers, right?
http://www.stregisresidences.com/index_sanfran.htm
And how about those three “vacation” properties that are in Tipper Gore’s name with a syndicate of NY investors? One is on the island of Nevis, one is near Kensington Palace in Hyde Park and the third is in Costa Blanca North in Spain.
I guess it’s hard to minmize a carbon footprint when you think you’re a god. AlGore: Do as I say, not as I do.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — February 28, 2007 @ 1:39 pm - February 28, 2007
All you have to do is buy an indultence! No more guilt! We’re saving Mother Earth!
LOL!
Comment by rightwingprof — February 28, 2007 @ 2:45 pm - February 28, 2007
Oops. That obviously should be “indulgence.”
Comment by rightwingprof — February 28, 2007 @ 2:46 pm - February 28, 2007
Gore’s Greed…
George Bush More ?Green? Than Gore
Is it possible that George Bush is a secret Green? Evidently his Crawford Winter White House has 25,000 gallons of rainwater storage, gray water collection from sinks and showers for irrigation, passive solar, ge……
Trackback by Gulf Coast Pundit — February 28, 2007 @ 2:48 pm - February 28, 2007
I wonder what the Socialist Teachers at this Seattle School would think of the Gore’s housing inequality.
The teachers were distressed that children were building a Lego town that incorporated “their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys.” These assumptions “mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive.”
So, the teachers took Legos out of the classroom and allowed them to return only when the little proles agreed to abide by Marxist principles such as:
“All structures are public structures”
“All structures will be standard sizes.”
“We should have equal houses. They should be standard sizes.”
“It’s important to have the same amount of power as other people over your building.”
Comment by V the K — February 28, 2007 @ 3:29 pm - February 28, 2007
Where are all the libs defending Gore and Edwards?
Hmmm?
HMMMM?
Comment by GayPatriot — February 28, 2007 @ 3:41 pm - February 28, 2007
blah blah blah carbon offsets blah blah blah bushco blah blah blah stupid CONservatives and your suvs blah blah blah i hate my f’ing godbag parents blah blah blah
Feel better?
Comment by V the K — February 28, 2007 @ 4:22 pm - February 28, 2007
#1 – “What is Al Gore doing in his spare-time?”
Well, here are some possibilities:
1. Building a Death Star (he has got a lot of acreage in Tennessee).
2. Inventing new-fangled machines that automatically punch the holes in West Palm ballots, because he’s not going to lose because people can’t poke a stylus through a #$%&* paper ballot.
3. Growing weed using electric light bulbs. (Evidence – he’s gained 50 pounds from the munchies, he is divorced from reality and suffers from rabid mood swings. Yep, Algore’s a pothead.)
4. Putting as much distance between Tipper and himself.
That about does it.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — February 28, 2007 @ 4:54 pm - February 28, 2007
As AOLElectionsBlog put it: “This is typical liberal behavior of course. John Edwards talks of two Americas yet lives in a house roughly the size of one of them. Now we have Al Gore sucking up enough energy for a small hospital.”
Comment by rightwingprof — February 28, 2007 @ 4:56 pm - February 28, 2007
Terrapass? It sounds like the church of yore selling absolution and such to the rich. Where’s Luther when you need him?
Comment by ousslander — February 28, 2007 @ 5:54 pm - February 28, 2007
I’m a little confused about carbon offsets.
Is this the way it works–I get to kill all the endangered species I want, provided I give X-amount of money to some charity that advocates saving endangered species?
Am I missing something?
Comment by cbi — February 28, 2007 @ 6:59 pm - February 28, 2007
No, cbi, you’re not missing anything. I think you’ve got it exactly right.
I’m no biographer (and if I were, Algore wouldn’t be my first choice of study) but… Algore was a senator and Algore Sr. was a senator… just how does being a senator and son of a senator make one fabulously wealthy?
These pols have shoe closets bigger than my hovel.
Comment by Robert — February 28, 2007 @ 8:09 pm - February 28, 2007
The Gore family is/was in the newspaper business, and has been wealthy for generations…politics came later. And Al’s been out of public office for 6 years now. In that time ol’ Slick Willie’s collected over 40-million-dollars just in speaking fees; plus royalities, gratuities and income from the corporate, civic and charitable Boards he serves on, plus salary & expenses from his charitable works and political committees….and his Presidential and gubernatorial pensions….and Social Security.
Comment by Ted B. (Charging Rhino) — February 28, 2007 @ 8:43 pm - February 28, 2007
Kind of off comment, since I doubt it will get covered in a regular post here not being about insiginificant Democratic criticism, but since Bruce was so forthright ascribing such good economic success to Bush economics here and here, would he like to comment on yesterday’s market mini-crash, release of 4th quarter GDP lower than estimated for the third straight quarter under 3%, and the bottom dropping out of new home sales?
Will conservatives hold him and the outgoing Congress as an example of this as much as when things are going positively? Does it compare to the recent Democratic sniping on the site lately?
Comment by Just A Question — February 28, 2007 @ 8:54 pm - February 28, 2007
Couldn’t help but note the lack of liberal Gore apologists on this thread. The Gore Kerry HRC limos streaking past the stund masses on the sidewalks reminds me of the former Soviet Union elites passing the rabel. I’m not seeing the Democrats eliminate this graft greed and corruption we were promised.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — February 28, 2007 @ 11:40 pm - February 28, 2007
In regards to Just A Question’s “question”, I would like to draw attention to the table in this link, entitled “The Dow By The Numbers”, which outlines the biggest point and percentage drops the Dow has made in its history.
Excluding the September 17, 2001 mini-crash, which was the first trading day after 9/11, the next three largest crashes in terms of point movements were -617.78 points on April 14th, 2000, -554.26 points on October 27th, 1997, and -512.61 points on August 31, 1998.
Now, since Just A Question seems to be spouting the Democrat talking point that yesterday’s “mini-crash” proves that the Bush economy is a failure…..perhaps he can explain why, despite three crashes a hundred points and larger than Tuesday’s during the Clinton administration, the Clinton economy was touted as an “economic miracle”.
Or he could buckle up and admit that Al Gore is a hypocrite.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — March 1, 2007 @ 3:22 am - March 1, 2007
OT: Bad News for Rudy’s Dudes: Most of Giuliani’s Judge Appointments were left-wing activists.
Comment by V the K — March 1, 2007 @ 5:34 am - March 1, 2007
Al Gore is a chickenhawk in the War on Climate Change.
Comment by BoBo — March 1, 2007 @ 7:44 am - March 1, 2007
Good one, BoBo
Comment by V the K — March 1, 2007 @ 7:51 am - March 1, 2007
*snickers at the chickenhawk comment*
I will admit I am no fan of George W. Bush, but one of the (admittedly few) things I do admire about him is what I have read in the past about his ecologically friendly choices on his property. This post was not the first I had read about his implementation of such things on the ranch, and despite protestations about his environmental policies, it is an example of leadership.
A cynic might say it’s just another way for W. to keep more money is his pocket, but I think it’s more reflective of a Texas/Southwest/Western attitude towards the land.
Mike
Member, Global Warming Kool Aid Club
Comment by Mike — March 1, 2007 @ 8:22 am - March 1, 2007
Gore purchases his “cabon offsets” by making donations to Generation Investment Management. Incidentally, he’s one of the founders of the company and serves as its Chair.
In other words, Gore is buying his “carbon offsets” from himself.
Comment by Vic — March 1, 2007 @ 8:39 am - March 1, 2007
The picture of the farmhouse in the article is misleading, since the secret service does not allow pictures of the Presidents home to be published for security reasons. I think that house is the one on the edge of the property the news media gets to see. I do remember the interviews the architect gave when he was designing and building the house, and how “amazed” he was that the Bushes were building such an environmentally sensitive and unpretentious dwelling.
Just as we can not gauge any President by current attitudes, I can see that the future will judge him by a different set of standards than the current media seems to be doing. He has been right about so many things and 50 years from now when the Caliphate of Europe has been established, most all will agree that Bush was right.
Comment by Tom in Dallas — March 1, 2007 @ 9:04 am - March 1, 2007
Yeah, if there are any of us infidels left. 50 years? You’re an optimist. There are already parts of France and Sweden their governments have ceded to the control of Islamic colonizers, and Britain isn’t far behind.
Comment by V the K — March 1, 2007 @ 9:23 am - March 1, 2007
Bush is right about this ?
Comment by HardHobbit — March 1, 2007 @ 9:59 am - March 1, 2007
Yuh, Dubya’s WAY greener than Al Gore or any of the other kooky environmentalists.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3054/
Comment by Chet — March 1, 2007 @ 10:59 am - March 1, 2007
#27 NDT: Maybe someone should ask JAQ whether softness in the stock market might have anything to do with Democrats “soak the rich” rhetoric, or Hillary’s ambition to confiscate oil company profits (a la Chavez), or the Democrats determination to let the Bush tax cuts expire, or Barney Frank’s promise of extensive new financial regulations.
Comment by V the K — March 1, 2007 @ 11:03 am - March 1, 2007
Typical right-wing smear job. The house in question is more than just the personal living quarters of the Gores. There are also offices for staff members and the secret service. Also, during the summer (I live in the South) the electric bill for my 1,500 house is $200.00. So for a 10,000 square foot house, that also has offices for secret service and staff, $1,200 doesn’t seem excessive.
Comment by Tim — March 1, 2007 @ 11:59 am - March 1, 2007
I see the left-wing talking points on the Goracle’s energy use have finally been issued.
Comment by V the K — March 1, 2007 @ 12:05 pm - March 1, 2007
#38
Behind the story facts don’t matter to republicans.
This is yet another “Drive by” hit.
Don’t like a message?
Smear the messenger!
This is a tried and true conservative principle.
Threads like these show exactly why the republican party is losing ground with mainstream America. Your base has become bitter and all you can do is snark in your circles while the dems shape the agenda.
Further
This bitterness you show over Gore’s unbridled success at spreading an important message makes me never want to see a post about “the positivity of the right” ever again…
Comment by keogh — March 1, 2007 @ 12:21 pm - March 1, 2007
Oh, yeah, the left wing has definitely issued its talking points.
Comment by V the K — March 1, 2007 @ 12:25 pm - March 1, 2007
Sounds like a concentration camp.
Comment by rightwingprof — March 1, 2007 @ 12:41 pm - March 1, 2007
I wonder what it took so long for the usual robotic shills to mount their defense? Were they still bumming about Cheney surviving the assassination attempt”
Jim Treacher has a poll. Why does Al Gore’s Nashville mansion use more than 20 times as much electricity as the national average?
1. Entire east wing is a walk-in fridge for snacks
2. Tipper says there’s no point listening to Cannibal Corpse if you don’t TURN THAT $#!+ UP
3. Bush stole all the off-switches
4. Needs to run the AC non-stop to keep his daughters from burning the place down with their hotness
5. He’s building a Death Star
Comment by V the K — March 1, 2007 @ 12:47 pm - March 1, 2007
Uh, average is meaningless. What’s the median electricity bill ?
Comment by Tim — March 1, 2007 @ 12:48 pm - March 1, 2007
Tim writes: “The house in question is more than just the personal living quarters of the Gores. There are also offices for staff members and the secret service.”
Like Calarato is fond of writing for Ian… BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT. Wrong Tim-O.
Gore lost his Secret Service detail three weeks after Bush-Cheney’s FIRST Presidential Inauguration Day way back in January, 2001.
Now only former Presidents and their spouses (past Bill & Hill) get an SS detail for just 10 years after leaving office… unless the sitting President at the time waives it by Executive Order or Congress amends the law.
http://www.secretservice.gov/protection.shtml
Comment by Michigan-Matt — March 1, 2007 @ 2:07 pm - March 1, 2007
Tim also writes: “… the electric bill for my 1,500 (sq ft) house is $200.00.”
Tim-O, be a good FarLeftie and get an energy audit done… you’re destroying the rain forests in South America, melting the polar ice caps, killing off the Pacific Salmon, causing hurricanes and leading us to solar implosion unless you get an energy audit done. Now.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — March 1, 2007 @ 2:29 pm - March 1, 2007
Yawn. What a stupid thread this is.
Comment by rightiswrong — March 1, 2007 @ 8:30 pm - March 1, 2007
#44
Uh, average is meaningless. What’s the median electricity bill ?
The latest information I could find (1997) from the DOE calculates the median annual electricity consumption per household at 8,370 kWh.
Comment by John in IL — March 2, 2007 @ 12:06 am - March 2, 2007
Oh, no. Al Gore was right. Manbearpig is a serious problem. In fact, the human-induced global warming phenomenon is so bad it has spread to Mars.
I warned them not to put a hemi in the Sojourner probe, but did they listen?
We’re doomed. Doooooooooomed.
Comment by V the K — March 2, 2007 @ 8:25 am - March 2, 2007
rightiswrong of the lower case clan writes: “Yawn. What a stupid thread this is.”
Is that you, PatrickGryphon? Or is that a channel of his spirit?
Comment by Michigan-Matt — March 2, 2007 @ 10:13 am - March 2, 2007
So the Bush ranch is smaller than Gore’s house, and there is gray water re-use and rainwater collection (these strategies are pretty common in the desert, but no so in locations where riparian rights are not such an issue). Pasive solar and geo-thermal are also quite common in the Southwest. I’m not making any attempt to defend Gore, but no where is there an actual figure for the electricity usage of Bush’s ranch. What is the Crawford ranch bill? What would it be if the ranch was inhabited by Bush on a regular basis? Just curious.
Comment by Bozo — March 3, 2007 @ 1:04 pm - March 3, 2007
I’m another lefty who would comment, but why would it matter? Most of you would just berate me anyhow because you are too immature to make valid points – you’d rather call people names. However, I do know that former Vice-President Gore has not killed 3268 Americans since March 19, 2003 and Mr. Bush has.
Comment by Shy Romine — April 7, 2007 @ 2:35 am - April 7, 2007