Whos the Environmentalist

[huntingbuddy419]

Look over the descriptions of the following two houses and see if you are able to tell which belongs to an environmentalist.

HOUSE No. 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 ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked 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 No. 2:

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 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 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/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. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE No. 1 (that 20-room energy-guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.

HOUSE No. 2 (that 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.

And if you doubt the veracity of this comparison, click on this link: http://snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp

[etothepii]

Very interesting post.

[ipscshooter]

Yeah, but, Gore's still thebetter environmentalistbecause he wrote a book about global warming and buys "carbon credits"... [/sarcasm]

[Red Lion]

http://ga6.org/campaign/gore_thankyou

[david m]

ORIGINAL: huntingbuddy419

The house contains only 4,000 square feet

well, as long as it's ONLY 4,000 square feet. [8D]

[ipscshooter]

There may be no single person who has done more for our environment than Al Gore. That's why I'm so pleased that Vice President Gore accepted my invitation to testify before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on March 21st!

Please join 76,253 Americans and sign my online thank you card to Al Gore now -- thanking him for everything he has done to stop global warming!

Barbara Boxer

The world is being overrun by idiots.

[Sliverflicker]

Well heck, that should make up forgutting the clean air act, and replaceing it with his clear skis policy, allowing 5 time the amount of Mercury into our water ways, and does not even address Nitrogen Oxides, or Sulfur Dioxide!

[BigTiny]

ORIGINAL: ipscshooter

The world is being overrun by idiots.

Could you post a link so I can sign the card too?

AAAAHHH, Kool-Aid!

[ipscshooter]

ORIGINAL: BigTiny

Could you post a link so I can sign the card too?

AAAAHHH, Kool-Aid!

It's from the link Red Lion posted.

[burniegoeasily]

I love it 76,000 out of how many million Americans?? Just goes to show you there is still those that have their head so far in the sand they have to have someone else think for them.