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October 16, 2007
A Tale of Two Houses
The following is an email that's been making the rounds
Status at Snopes: True
House #1A 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/mo. 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.
Now let's look at house #2
House #2Designed 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.
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
of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.An "inconvenient truth".
Yes I am aware that just because Algore is a hypocrite of monumental proportions does not automatically make him wrong on his global warming theories, or that just because President Bush lives in an enviromentally friendly house makes him right, so please don't anyone waste time leaving comments along those lines.
But that said my reaction to the email is
BRAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
Posted by Tom at October 16, 2007 9:55 PM
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Ehhh...errrrr....ummmmm.....
I won't comment on AlGore the hypocrit, but could you possibly change the header on this thread to "A Tale of Two Houses"? (Tail and Tale do not equate - although this email _does_ have a long tail - received this one about a year ago!)
Posted by: suek at October 19, 2007 11:24 AM
ugh, that was pretty boneheaded of me. Thank you for pointing out the error, suek. It's fixed now.
Posted by: Tom the Redhunter at October 20, 2007 9:31 PM
