On Sat, 08 May 2010 13:32:51 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Sat, 08 May 2010 10:16:45 -0500, Ignoramus9556
wrote the following:

Al Gore is, of course, free to buy any house that he can afford, as
would be anyone else. But that purchase would not really increase my
esteem for Al Gore.

Do you have _any_ esteem for Algore? If so, WTF for, Ig?


One of the reasons why I admire Warren Buffett, is that the house
where he lives, is very modest and is appraised at $700k, if I recall
correctly. He has another house in Laguna Beach, CA, but even that one
is only worth 2-3 million or so. Considering that he could own any
house in the world, his modesty is impressive. He says that he simply
does not need a bigger house, which is probably true.

Tres cool.

But I'm sure that Algore feels that he needs a big, expensive house to
impress the people he wants to scam. AFAIC, he's just an ex-VP
grifter who is out to screw the entire world. You can tell by nearly
-all- of his actions that he doesn't believe a single word he spews
about AGWK.


True or False? Al Gore's House Uses 20 Times More Electricity than
Average

Is it true that Al Gore's mansion uses significantly more energy than
the typical home?

Is this true?

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 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 Ex-President of the United States, George W. Bush.

So whose house is gentler on the environment? Yet another story you
WON'T hear on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, or read about in the New York
Times or the Washington Post. Indeed, for Mr. Gore, it is truly an
"Inconvenient Truth."

A:
The main claim in a chain e-mail was true when the original message
began making the rounds in 2007. Since then, the Gores have made several
changes to their home.

This e-mail has been circulating since 2007, the year former Vice
President Al Gore's documentary on global warming, "An Inconvenient
Truth," won an Oscar. It was basically accurate then. Gore's Nashville
mansion consumed a large amount of energy compared with the national
average, and President George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, had
several environmentally friendly features.

The Internet myth-busting site Snopes.com wrote about this e-mail and a
similar one two years ago, finding that the main messages were true. The
Associated Press reviewed the Gores' energy bills and reported that the
family consumed 191,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006. This was considerably
more than the amount of electricity used by the typical house in
Nashville, about 15,600 kilowatt-hours a year.

--


"First Law of Leftist Debate
The more you present a leftist with factual evidence
that is counter to his preconceived world view and the
more difficult it becomes for him to refute it without
losing face the chance of him calling you a racist, bigot,
homophobe approaches infinity.

This is despite the thread you are in having not mentioned
race or sexual preference in any way that is relevant to
the subject." Grey Ghost