For Immediate Release: June 17, 2008
For Further Information, Contact:
Adam King, 615.383.6431
adam@tennesseepolicy.org
Energy Guzzled by Al Gore’s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a Month
(Above is not my stat, could also be: “19 homes for one year” – Anthony)
Gore’s personal electricity consumption up 10%, despite “energy-efficient” home renovations
NASHVILLE –
In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.”A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”
In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.
Read the entire press release here:
http://tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=764
HAHAHA love the letter from Nashville Electric Service…
I have recently revised Gore’s total estimated carbon footprint upwards from 5.3 Madonnas to 5.7 Madonnas.
(For those of you unfamiliar with these units, a Madonna is equal to 100 Britons. A Briton is the averaged carbon footprint of a citizen of the U.K. and is equal to 10 metric tons of CO2.)
Terry: Rick, one other thing, if you read the original article you will see that they state where their source of information was from. If want to verify the data then you can obtain the information yourself.
This isn’t my story. All I’m pointing out is that the only facts in evidence are second-order: hearsay, in other words. And I’m afraid that doesn’t ascend to a sufficient level of objectivity for me. I have no problem criticizing Gore on the basis of the fact that he is a politician politicizing science. But I will do so on the basis of the uncertainties in the science — uncertainties which I feel he overstates and conflates into something akin to certainty (actually, I don’t just “feel” it, I can document it). On that score I think I can rightly call him a preacher. And I feel I can do that with a certain level of objectivity. But I have no desire to vilify him on the basis of hearsay evidence. That’s going too far.
Dennis Ward:
Read this part:
“The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a Nashville-based free market think tank and watchdog organization, obtained information about Gore’s home energy use through a public records request to the Nashville Electric Service. ”
Al’s not buying solar power from NES….
You’re absolutely right Rick, but vilifying him is a lot more fun!!
Novoburgo
Rick, electricity usage records from the Goreacle’s very own utility company aren’t “hearsay”, they’re “hard evidence”. C’mon, man, he’s a hypocrite of the highest order and his Glow Bull Worming™ fraud is responsible for hundreds of millions, nay, billions, of lives being adversely affected.
Gore’s book “Earth in the Balance” was published in 1992.
Gore has had 16 years to get the most energy efficient home on the planet……and hasn’t done it. Not even close.
It’s a clear insight into how real AGW is.
BC: “Rick, electricity usage records from the Goreacle’s very own utility company aren’t “hearsay”, they’re “hard evidence”.
Have you seen the “hard evidence”? I’m guessing you haven’t. If you have, please produce it. Short of that all you have to go on is faith. Do you see the problem?
I hate to beat a dead horse here, because I think everyone inclined to understand what I mean has already done so. But allow me to extract the title of a post on your own web site: Nobody Ever Went Broke Underestimating the Intelligence of the Public. That’s as sad as it is true perhaps. But as a small member of The Public, I refuse to be underestimated. So until you, or someone else produces some hard evidence, you might want to take that to heart. I’m not saying the evidence doesn’t exist. I’m saying I haven’t seen it. And I’m guessing you haven’t either. That’s all I”m saying.
If it gets warmer, they’ll be enthralled.
If it gets colder, from Al they’ll withdraw.
It might take a cold season
for folks to see reason.
Just as the names Benedict Arnold and Vidkun Quisling became synonymus with the term traitor I wonder if now the name Al Gore will become synonymus with sanctimonius hypocrite.
What the hell. Does he have a band of gypseys living in the backyard? Is he powering a trailer park on a splitter? Does he have one of those huge German made incinerators converting the table scraps into simfuel? Does he power his jet off the home juice?
dennis ward (14:38:53) :
“Why does it not mention how much of this electricity usage was generated from solar power and geothermal power?”
I strongly suspect that the geothermal power is not for generating electricity but to provide a cooler heat dump in the summer and a warmer heat source in the winter for a heat pump system.
I wonder why it doesn’t mention my average house uses enough electricity in a year to power 365 typical houses for a day. These people just aren’t thinking big enough.
Gore’s spokeswoman had this explanation:
“…the renovations weren’t complete until November, so it’s a bit early to be attempting before-and-after comparisons. In addition, the Gores participate in the Nashville Electric Service’s Green Power Switch Program, which allows them to buy their electricity from renewable sources like wind power, solar power or methane gas from landfills (the house’s 33 solar panels only supply 4 percent of its power needs, per Kreider.) So any energy they burn won’t be burning them a bigger carbon footprint.”
Ok. So Gore used bunches of energy, and much / some of it was “clean”. But if he used all this extra energy, that energy was not available for other folks to use, so they had to use the “UNCLEAN” stuff, because Gore used up the “clean” supply. What ever happened to conservation? It doesn’t matter what kind of energy he used, he used way way too much to ever taken seriously as an environmentalist. This is sooo stupid! Did Al Gore hire a P.R. lackey from the Bush administration?
Rick Lambert. I live in Australia and I cannot believe that there is a place called North America because I have never been there. When I am asked if there is such a place, then if I have never seen, touched and smelt it it is just hearsay.By the way, I have a relative who has just gone on a holiday to a place named Los Angeles andshe phones me now and then. Los Angeles is obviously a place here in Australia that I have visited, but cannot remember doing so. I have never been outside of Australia, as the world ends at its borders.
Folks, I think we are witnessing the last days of any credulity for Al Gore. The public can only take so much of hypocritical blowhards like Gore. And the Sun did not get the Gore memo.
Everywhere I run in to average Joes and Janes who are starting to put two and two together. People are realizing that we do need energy to run our economy. And people are realizing that energy usage is a human virtue and not a vice. Couple that with the empirical data that shows that the climate models are a joke, and it’s just about curtains for Al.
Rick, earlier you’ve claimed Gore is a “politician politicizing science” and that Gore “overstates and conflates” to the point of preacherhood and you can document this. And yet you didn’t. I’m not asking for your documentation, I’m merely asking why you feel it is proper for you to make specific accusations against Gore based on your studies but others should not?
So much of what is examined here deals with manipulation of complicated data, I am pretty sure if a simple check of public records on the amount of energy by an individual proved Gore was saving energy rather than increasing energy use, there would be plenty of mea culpa’s to satisfy you. I apologize in advance for not documenting how many mea culpas this would be and how many would be necessary.
Anthony
I think you should have a feature at this site called “How to Live Green” or “Living Green”.
You could provide a photo gallery of homes of famous energy efficient homes of activists like:
– Sean Penn
– Leonardo DiCaprio
– Laurie David
– Sting
– Madonna
– John Edwards
– John Travolta
– Al Gore etc.
This way the rest of us could get ideas on how to “live green” and save the planet like these role model activists do.
I am stunned! I have calculated, and I have trouble believing this,that this would cost €32045 here in Ireland. Average bill per two months €5341 ! What does he do ? Of course -air conditioning to control the hot air he expells.
As always Big Al lives by the creed “all of us are equal but some of us are more equal than others”
Al Gore, I’m Big Al Gore,
I’ve got big bucks, so I can burn more;
Do as I say and not as I do,
You can’t be me, and I’m glad I’m not you.
So go Green, ya got to go Green,
I’ve got more Carbon Credits than you’ve ever seen;
Buy ’em up, buy ’em up, buy ’em up now,
‘Cause ya don’t want global warming and I’ve got a Cash Cow!
Great idea Pierre…
Rick,
I take it you won’t be satisfied until you personally are allowed to read Gore’s electric meter.
How many different countries read this blog? It might be interesting to see the average bill on Gore’s mansion in several world denominations…
GALL, the trate of being rude , ignorant, or impertinent, inclined to take liberties.
Sound familiar?
It should be noted that Gore heats his house, guest house, pool house, and pool with natural gas. He also has his driveway lined with CO2 spewing gas lanterns.
At last report the gas bill for just his pool house and pool was averaging over 500 dollars a month. Likewise the gas bill for his house was averaging over 500 dollars a month.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/national_world&id=5072659