BrainDamage
04-09-2007, 11:12 AM
LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING
TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH
BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST.
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.
So whose house is gentler on the environment? Yet another story you WON'T hear on
CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC or read about in the New York Times or the
Washington Post. Indeed, for Mr. Gore, it's truly "an inconvenient truth."
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH
BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST.
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.
So whose house is gentler on the environment? Yet another story you WON'T hear on
CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC or read about in the New York Times or the
Washington Post. Indeed, for Mr. Gore, it's truly "an inconvenient truth."
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp