LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST.
HOUSE # 1:
A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on apool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas.
InONE MONTH ALONE, this mansion consumes more energy than the average AmericanHousehold in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and naturalgas runs over $2,400.00 per month.
In natural gas alone (which last time wechecked 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:
[/b] 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 holdsgeothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet intothe 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 and coolingsystem.
Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes intounderground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected waterthen irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to thearea blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.
HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee.It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.
HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) 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? Yet another story you WON'Thear on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC or read about in the New York Times or the Washington Post. Indeed, for Mr. Gore, it's truly "an inconvenient truth."
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RE: Which House???
HA! Cal, that is absolutely priceless!!!!
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