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.
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#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. -----------------------
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.
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An
"inconvenient truth."I sure hope this gets passed to
everyone! And, yes .. I DID check Snopes prior to forwarding
it. You can verify it at:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
