Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth'

[Alan]

Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.

But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.

Gore has held these apocalyptic views about the environment for some time. So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm

Armed with Gore's utility bills for the last two years, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged Monday that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president's 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.

The Center claims that Nashville Electric Services records show the Gores in 2006 averaged a monthly electricity bill of $1,359 for using 18,414 kilowatt-hours, and $1,461 per month for using 16,200 kilowatt-hours in 2005. During that time, Nashville Gas Company billed the family an average of $536 a month for the main house and $544 for the pool house in 2006, and $640 for the main house and $525 for the pool house in 2005. That averages out to be $29,268 in gas and electric bills for the Gores in 2006, $31,512 in 2005.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/GlobalWarming/story?id=2906888&page=2


Oh my . Obviously Al Bore isn't as concerned about Global Warming as he propagates. Although maybe he is and wants others to drastically cut down so he can carry on with his extravagant lifestyle

No wonder he got a "Democratic award" for his documentary.

 

[Nod]

Oh my . Obviously Al Bore isn't as concerned about Global Warming as he propagates. Although maybe he is and wants others to drastically cut down so he can carry on with his extravagant lifestyle

No wonder he got a "Democratic award" for his documentary.

He's just living the American dream.

 

[Daveogg]

Hmm Interesting.

I watched the documentary, and found it pretty interesting. I did think it a little odd that it was not "legally freely" available for download. Surely he wants his message to get to as many people as possible. Prehaps he has to make enough to afford all those utility bills.