Damned Energy Wasters
August 25, 2007
An Inconvenient Truth
White House Dweller #1
This White House dweller owns a home that is 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.
White House Dweller #2
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. 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.
The first house is owned by George Herbert Walker Bush
The second is owned by a Democrat named Al Gore. Of course he is never there much as he travels the globe on a private jet trelling us to conserve.
Dems are famous for the “do as I say not as I do” mantra. Knowing that heartstring pulled just the right way always gets votes.
The Libs and press whine that Bush is too stubborn. Do they whine he was stubborn enough to be more Green than more than likely 90% of Congress? The differrence. Doing vs lip service and a new career path that guarantees hefty speaking engagement money from the KoolAid drinkers.
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