Gore home vs. Bush home

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 $2,400.00 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 only 4,000 square feet (4
bedrooms) and is nestled on 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.

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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Electric Base Board Heat
    ... enters the crawl space and cools the house. ... putting in a natural gas furnace is obviously not an option. ... can you recover the additional cost? ... suks, I rented an apt with electric, I wold never have electric heat ...
    (alt.home.repair)
  • Re: Electric Base Board Heat
    ... Retrofitting a hot-water radiant floor heating system into a house that wasn't ... putting in a natural gas furnace is obviously not an option. ... to install a natural gas heater, could I hook into the AC Duct under ... Why do you care what electric heat is going to cost, ...
    (alt.home.repair)
  • Re: Electric Base Board Heat
    ... enters the crawl space and cools the house. ... putting in a natural gas furnace is obviously not an option. ... Why do you care what electric heat is going to cost, ... A gas furnace would be best and easy to install. ...
    (alt.home.repair)
  • Who *REALLY* cares more about the environment?
    ... A 20-room mansion heated by natural gas. ... Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all ...
    (rec.sport.golf)
  • Re: Who *REALLY* cares more about the environment?
    ... A 20-room mansion heated by natural gas. ... Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all ... All I know is that the whole debate seems to center around human caused CO2 ...
    (rec.sport.golf)