Is this true or just right-wing propoganda?
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, 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.
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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 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 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.
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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.
This may be true (and Dick Cheney’s VP residence in D.C. is extremely environmentally progressive.) Regardless, let’s remember what the Crawford “ranch” is all about. The pig farm was purchased in 2000 (financial details never disclosed) and built as an elaborate stage set for Bush’s 2000 run for President. Like everything about the Bush “administration” it is strictly for image and show. This group of corporate loving environmental thugs don’t give a s**t about anything but perception. “And you will know them by their fruits…”
Comment by Chicago Jim — July 23, 2007 @ 9:32 am
According to Snopes its true
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
Comment by greyhawk — July 23, 2007 @ 11:36 am