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Old 08-21-2007, 05:04 PM
 
Location: In an illegal immigrant free part of the country.
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An Inconvenient Truth: 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 $2,400. 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.
http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/2007/images/House_1_000.jpg (broken link)


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 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. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/2007/images/House_2.jpg (broken link)

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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."
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Old 08-21-2007, 05:09 PM
 
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An Inconvenient Truth: 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 $2,400. 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.
http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/2007/images/House_1_000.jpg (broken link)


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 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. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/2007/images/House_2.jpg (broken link)

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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've heard this before. Fantastic. Thank you for posting. Mr. Gore is a hypocrite and a hysteric.
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Old 08-21-2007, 06:06 PM
 
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This one is true, you can even snope it if you want.
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Old 08-21-2007, 06:10 PM
 
Location: In an illegal immigrant free part of the country.
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You have to wonder about the mentality of those that praise Gore with evidence like this. Gore is a shameful hypocrite and he knows just how to work the hysterical crowd to line his pockets.
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Old 08-21-2007, 06:23 PM
 
Location: Tuxedo Park, NY
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This is excellent. I've been working on this thesis for a while that will explain the probability that Michael Moore is actually a cyborg created by Al Gore. I'll be sure to throw this in somewhere.
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Old 08-21-2007, 06:27 PM
 
Location: Maple Valley, WA
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Oh this is golden! Thanks for sharing!
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Old 08-21-2007, 06:51 PM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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I've heard this before. Fantastic. Thank you for posting. Mr. Gore is a hypocrite and a hysteric.

As opposed to someone responsible for burning how many thousands of gallons of jet fuel to carry how many people on frequent vacations that have most certainly not been earned by any great accomplishments?

Yeah, that little ol' 'green' ranch may save a coupla hundred gallons of fuel and it only takes thousands of gallons to get there. Isn't that convenient? I'm sooooooo impressed
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Old 08-21-2007, 06:55 PM
 
Location: In an illegal immigrant free part of the country.
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You have to wonder about the mentality of those that praise Gore with evidence like this. Gore is a shameful hypocrite and he knows just how to work the hysterical crowd to line his pockets.
There you go.
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Old 08-21-2007, 07:01 PM
 
Location: Texas
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You'd think Gore would be the one leading the push to build solar-panels on homes by building HIS home like that.
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Old 08-21-2007, 07:06 PM
 
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Thanks for posting an old e-mail. I can't wait for you to post the free trip to Disneyworld promised in e-mails from the early 90's.....


By the way this picture that you posted from Conservative.org is supposed to be 4,000 square feet? I'm sure that the rightwing source that added the picture to the e-mail has an accurate picture. We'll have to believe it is since W doesn't want 'merica to see him in a mansion, and calls his mansion, a "ranch" and makes the media broadcast from a barn...

http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/2007/images/House_2.jpg (broken link)

In any case, if you want to discard Gore's office usage of his house and anything else. Fine.

After all, you all don't believe in science and you can't refute the science of what Gore discusses so you attack him personally. Fine.

Continue to trash the Earth that God gave us.
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