A Tale of Two Houses

[rambone]

A Tale of Two Houses

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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 ave rage 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 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 Former President of the United States , George W. Bush.

An "inconvenient truth".




A Tale of Two Houses - Urban Legend Confirmed

Email flier compares the eco-friendliness of Al Gore's Nashville, Tennessee mansion to that of President George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas.

Status: Mostly true

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[Blue Tile Spook]

Like it says at the bottom, "Status: Mostly true".

Last I saw, AlGore had remodeled his house to make use of many "green" technologies on the market today. I don't like AlGore, but I don't like untrue*** or outdated information being passed on by email (where I have received this many times).




***Rambone, the "untrue" in my post is NOT NOT NOT a smack at your expense. I get many emails forwarded to me from friends with good intentions but they tend not to check the accuracy of the information that they are forwarding to their friends. When I confront them I get the usual response of, "Well, I thought it sounded okay so I just hit FORWARD. Sorry."