A Tale of two Houses

Consider this story.

I'll bet you have never heard anything about this at all.

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 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 per month
• 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 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.

Guess who owns these houses?

House #1- The proud owner is Mr. Global Warming - Al Gore.

House #2 - George W. Bush owns this abode.

I'll bet two things.

1. If you are a "Democrat", you ain't gonna like it and
2. I'll also bet your response will be some lame justification, denial and a dismissal of this as an unfair comparison, as an attack
• I can hear it now , " That’s so unfair, these two houses are not even located in the same parts of the country",
• "He has purchased carbon offset credits to make up for his energy usage",
• "His house is ten years newer", whine, whine, whine, indignant sniffle, POUT, FROWN.
• Poor babies..

For those of you who doubt, visit : http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp

Thankx- bigmike

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