I don't know if this is true, though it would be interesting to research and find out...........Mastevt.
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 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 # 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 # 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'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's truly "an inconvenient truth."
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H.G. Wells 1935
Most of those guys are hypocrites. There is some trouble and adjustment involved in all the conservation schemes. I'm not saying they aren't useful or of interest, but I don't buy deluding yourself that nothing is lost or given up.
This week I have bought a number of Compact Flourescent Light (CFL) bulbs. My motivation is to reduce my electric bill and also to go lighter on the environment. I'm a global warming skeptic, but it makes sense to me to not pi$$ away energy resources. As I expected, the CFL lightcharacter is DIFFERENT from incandescent light bulbs light character. The question is can I adopt to this differentcharacter and is this different character a diminished quality of light? I bought these CFL bulbs on a trial basis. I'm going to use them for awhile and see what I think of them. I think I'll definitely use them in some areas -- the garage, the outside porch light, the light outside the garage, the upstairs game room, the utility room, the hall next to the utility room. I'm going to reserve judgment on using in the living areas, because I'm not willing to diminish the quality of my life on this issue, not when there is no greater compulsion than saving a few dollars a year of electricity. If the sacrifice is not great, maybe I'll use them everywhere. If the sacrifice is too great, I won't use them. Maybe it is just a matter of getting used to the difference.
I wonder how many CLF bulbs Al Gore has in his Nashville mansion?
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RE: story of two houses........
Wait now, dont you all know its Ok as long as you are rich. Only use poor slobs are suppose to suffer. Besides, if you have money to buy Carbon credits, it makesyour pollution much cleaner.
How about all the Demo candidates taking their own personal jets to the debates the other day. Many came from the same place, so why didnt they take public transport, or at the least, jet pool. I know this is normal practice, but doesnt it make you a hypocirte when your party is the one crying about how everyone else is wasteful, yet you do not practice what you preach?
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Unintended consequences and God have one thing in common: Liberals don’t believe in either of them.
This week I have bought a number of Compact Flourescent Light (CFL) bulbs.
Just don't break one. The mercury contamination from one broken bulb may requie a visit from the EPA and a professional service for cleaning. The bill may reach into the thousands.
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Wait now, dont you all know its Ok as long as you are rich. Only use poor slobs are suppose to suffer. Besides, if you have money to buy Carbon credits, it makesyour pollution much cleaner.
If you're Al Gore, you can buy offsets from yourself. You actually make money from the deal (offsets are shares in companies, so when the market goes up, so does the value of your offsets), and your conscience is clear! GO AL!!!!
story of two houses........
