Glass Houses

[loco]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp

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. per month. 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 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.

An "inconvenient truth."

[240 is Back]

Um, you do know that Bush lives in the White House too, right?

So if you're going to point out the place where Al Gore lives AND runs his business, why not point out both the white house and the house in TX?

Poor argument.  I like the comparison, very interesting, but neglecting the white house, where he lives 75% of the year and works, is very weak on your part.

[headhuntersix]

Yes but he goes back to Crawford for good soon...come on 240 this was great. Who would have thought that Bush would have that kind of house. Amazing stuff.

[loco]

Um, you do know that Bush lives in the White House too, right?

So if you're going to point out the place where Al Gore lives AND runs his business, why not point out both the white house and the house in TX?

Poor argument.  I like the comparison, very interesting, but neglecting the white house, where he lives 75% of the year and works, is very weak on your part.

Good point, but Bush won't live in the White House much longer.  He will go back to his environmentally friendly home in TX.  

It's just an interesting read and comparison.  Al Gore is just too much of an extreme, self proclaimed extreme environmentalist, living in an extremely environmentally unfriendly house for somebody like him.  You would think somebody like Gore would have a house remotely similar to Bush's TX home.  Bush's TX home is cool.

[headhuntersix]

U should have just posted the facts without location and let people guess. Great thread.

[loco]

U should have just posted the facts without location and let people guess. Great thread.

Yeah, I should have.  Thanks!