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Wind and solar power is a lot more expensive than good old coal. Are you willing to pay 3x as much for electricity to shut down coal plants and switch to ‘green’ power sources to help with ‘global warming’ , even though man made global warming is NOT a proven fact? And please, I know a lot of scientists claim it is, but a lot also claim it’s a farce. So until we have near unaniminity from the scientific community (not Al Gore) it isn’t a fact.
Sorry Fishboy, but I don’t believe everything a website called ‘gristmill’ prints either. BTW, as I live in Vegas and I wish we could all afford at least a 3KW solar generating system on the roof of every house. Imagine doing that here and phoenix and tying them all into the grid with ‘net metering’, how much power could be generated. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for green power. I know even ‘clean coal’ pollutes. I just can’t afford 0/mo when I’m paying 300+ now. A major problem with wind is the wind farms are far away from transmission lines. And environmentalists oppose building those lines. And building them costs lots of money, which the ratepayers end up paying. There is no free lunch.

House #1 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 00. 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.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 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
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. ~~~~~HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; it is the abode of the "environmentalist" Al Gore. HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford,Texas; it is the residence the of the President of the United States, George W. Bush. An "inconvenient truth". You can check this out on Snopes.com under "The Story of Two Houses"

seems funny that George W. was thinking green and Al Gore had to change his house because he got caught using more energy in one month than some people use all year.thank you to the Today show for pointing that out yesterday

The tree huggers want everyone to drive around in electric cars, do they realize that they need to be plugged in to charge???

If generating energy causes green house gasses (just like al gores a*ss) where will the electric come from??

Not oil, that also causes warming (of al gores a*ss)

So does this mean that al gore can blow it out his a*ss or that we will all die from roasting and flooding??
So far the left does not like oil, coal, nuke, wind (just ask kennedy) water (might kill a fish) so where will it all come from???

In 2006 Al Gore’s home in Tenn. used 191,000 kilowatt hours ( monthly bill averaged ,200) when the average home in that area only used 15,600 kilowatt hours. For someone that is so certain that we are all screwed if we don’t drastically cut our use of energy he sure seems to not care when it comes to his own life. Mabey he doesn’t actually believe what he preaches. He has made millions from his movie telling you to change your life so drasticlly that you would end up living like a cave man. All the while he’s getting driven around in a Limo and using more energy at his home than 12 average homes. How about practicing what you preach. Even if he knows everything he says is crap ( wich he does ) you would think he would still attempt to limit his share of green house emmitions to playcate his followers if nothing else. I think I know what Al Gore is full of. Global bull@#$#.

Vegetable plants in biodegradable pots,t-shirts partailly made with recycled plastic, Green Works to clean with,cold water Tide,( you can forget all that your grandmother told you about how well warm water washes clothes) and G.E."energy smart" bulbs just to name a few .Did Al Gore just buy tons of stock in Walmart?

Anyone with a home of over 10,000 square feet must modify the home to be powered solely on solar power or wind power.

After all, every little bit helps, and people who live in 10,000 plus square foot houses have huge carbon footprints due to their heating and power requirements. If every house over that size was powered by green energy, it would definitely reduce pollution, dependence on oil/coal, etc.

If you support efforts to reduce carbon emissions, do you also support this suggestion? If not, why not?
I’m not suggesting that we allow carbon offsets. I’m suggesting that if Global Warming is real, then Al Gore and Sheryl Crow and others who live in giant homes should have no issue with modifying them to be completely green. No credits available.
smcgilli….. you must have missed my point.

The people clamoring for us to use one sheet of toilet paper, and turn the heat down to 67 degrees, live in 10,000, 15,000 and 20,000 square foot mansions. My suggestion is, if they are right and global warming is going to kill the planet, then they should have no objection to turning their luxury homes completely green. Right? Wanna bet how fast they’d sidestep this….?
sarge — you missed the point too…. you’re talking about what’s "fair." What would be "fair" is if Sheryl Crow and Al Gore HAD THE SAME CARBON FOOTPRINT AS YOU AND ME. People in 10,000 square foot homes in Malibu, and private villas, and airports in their front yards, are telling you and me that WE have to spend money greening out homes, but they don’t green theirs. WE have to drive hybrid cars and bio-diesel, they say - but they fly in jets 100 times per year — WE have to use one square of toilet paper, and THEY make sure their entourages and themselves are bathed in luxuries while on "tour" and making movies (which are pure luxuries - and major pollution sources).

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 ,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 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on an 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.