Bush Better Environmentalist Than Al Gore
By Gordon Bishop (04/12/07)
President George W. Bush is a better 'environmentalist' than former Vice President Al Gore.
Here are the real-world facts.
Look over the descriptions of the following two houses and se 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 guesthouse all heated by gas. In one month alone this mansion consumes more energy than the average American house household in an ENTIRE YEAR! The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400 a 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 percent 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 “Global Warming” 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, and MSNBC or read bout in the New York Times or the Washington Post.
Indeed, for Mr. Gore (the bore), it’s truly “an inconvenient truth” – the title of his Oscar winning documentary on “Global Warming.”
For the record, “Global Warming” is caused by the sun’s flares every 1,500 years, not by human generated pollution, another myth or lie launched by this perpetrator of “Junk Science.”
Gordon Bishop
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