Al Gore's Personal Energy Use Is His Own "Inconvenient Truth":Gore's mansion uses more than 20 times the national average

You think a politician is advocating one thing and then doing another?? I sure didn't see that coming. Wait, yes I did ... namely when he came to Berkeley in a limo and a caravan and then had his photo op coming out of a Prius.

Damn, I seeded the same story from a different source. And that never happens around here.

Next Al is going to start telling people they need to be more animated.

"Stop acting so wooden people. It's creeping me out! Act like you got some life left in you, for crying out loud. The planet's dying!"

Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore's energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.

He's probably sitting on his couch in his air-conditioned living room watching the DVD of his movie over and over and over again, thus accounting for the spike in energy use.

I am wondering, however, how his use compares to other households of his size, rather than against the average American household. Is any kind of business performed at his home? Are there employees there who do more than just take care of the laundry and the dusting? How many people live there?

This is a little like comparing apples to oranges, no?

On the other hand, I would expect that Mr. Gore would have inumerable energy-saving devices in his home, including solar panels and the like, and I would likewise expect that if he were using these things, he'd be really super vocal about it.

Maybe he has a grow-room in the basement?

while this does little to diliute his message, mr. gore does have some 'splainin to do.

hypocrisy is not pretty and i'm interested in how this one flushes out. mr. gores response and a second source need to be added to boil this down to what it is..

grrrrr

Wha.. Im in shock! After all the "oscars" were "green" according to Leo... Good Job Al..

Wha.. Im in shock! After all the "oscars" were "green" according to Leo... Good Job Al..

I am sure he lives in a sweet hut ... so I am not surprised his energy bill is higher than yours or mine ... and I am okay with that since he pays the bill.

Still, that his personal energy usage has gone up since making the movie is strange.

..not to mention the thousands of pounds of jet fuel he burns on his gulfstream jetting from photo op to photoop. How's that for some pollution, Al?

While it's no doubt true the Gore's Belle Meade home consumes more than the average, and more than is healthy for the planet, I would sure like some verification on these numbers, as last I checked, electric bills are not public information.

You compare the 'average' household to the household of someone w/that much space? (meaning... would the energy consumed by the average home be the same as the one consumed by a 'crib' style house?) And yes lets attack the man when we can't attack his argument.. what is that called ad hominem???

I don't know all the details of Gore's home but I do know both he and Tipper employee staff to work on their political projects. In this case, Gore's home is more like a small office building than a "typical American home" Also, from what I understand the electricity in TN is generated by the Tennessee Valley Authority using hydroelectric generators. Hydroelectric is the cleanest form of electricity generation we currently have.

What's that saying about ad hominem attacks being the result of a weak mind devoid of any substantive arguments?

It seems old Al and the rest of these "gulfstream environmentalists" arent about to inconvenience themselves with any of this global warming conservation crap are they. No, that is for the little people. The hard working slobs like ourselves. We, lower middle class, work our asses off, pay all the taxes average, barely have our heads above water stupid fools, while Al Gore and all his hollywood friends hob nob around the world in their jets, live in their 25000 sq.ft. mansions, drive their bentleys and ferraris and expect us working fools to do what is necessary to stop this imaginary crisis. Go to hell Al Gore.

i hate articles like this.

if i win the lottery, i'm buying the @!$%#ing lamborgini LP640. I'll buy the @!$%#ing Honda Civic Hybrid, but I'm still getting the @!$%#ing lambo. He's the former vice president of the United States, yet some people want him to live in a shack. He's not Groundskeeper Willie.

Plus i'm sure he's gonna put mad solar panels all over his home. mad. solar. panels.

Al Gore has to be willing to walk the walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use," said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.

what in the flying @!$%#? he's been trying to tell this story for 30 years. he's done way much more to tell the world about global warming than any other individual on the planet. if he wants the mansion, let him have the damn mansion.

he doesn't upset me.

Sean Paul singing "We Be Burnin' not concernin what nobody wanna say" in the @!$%#ing desert, with fires shooting out on top of a vehicle, fancy trucks in the background, now that upsets me, and i love that @!$%#ing song.

I think the point is that while people may believe in global warming, no one but no one is willing to inconvenience themselves on its behalf. Al can drone on at us to his bleeding hearts content, but until viable alternatives are introduced Americans will continue to decry the environmental carnage from their air conditioned homes and SUVs.

You all nuts? You expect rich people to live like paupers to earn the right, in your eyes, to tell the truth about climate change?

If he wasn't rich and an important politician no-one would have listened to him anyway!

Get off with the lot of you. There is no hypocrisy here, except maybe trying to kid people he drives a Prius. If he has money he is not required to be ashamed of it.

So unless he lives in a hut with no electricity, and walks everywhere he is a hypocrite. Not as big a hypocrite as Republicans who diddle young boys.

Can anyone tell me how to clean a carbon footprint from a wool rug?

This from a recent review of the Oscars:

Al Gore was a good sport, pretending to have his speech cut short by the orchestra just as he was to announce he'd be running for president. Gore was there to thank Hollywood for being so environmentally conscious.

And as I drove through Beverly Hills on my way to the Kodak Theatre on Sunday, I could see the love for the environment in their well-manicured landscapes, which shielded their energy-guzzling mansions with the wrap-around driveways for multiple cars (not a Prius in sight — unless Mercedes is making them now). And I could see it in the many private airports where the stars house private jets for quick trips to Cannes.

I also read that the Oscar statuettes themselves were flown in from Chicago on a special private jet. Of course I also wondered how many of the actors would "take a bus or subway" as the text admonished behind Melissa Ethridge as she sang the oh-so memorable Oscar winning song. Just think how many of those carbon credits would be freed up if Hollywood actually "practiced" what they preached and didn't just CCCC (conspicuously consume carbon credits).

Look, if this is the kind of victory the right wingers need, let them have it. God Knows they have had a few defeats lately and they need a little ego bolstering.

You know, a more thorough article might inquire into exactly what is consuming the power at Al Gore's place, instead of acting like global warming is some moral code and not physics. Al Gore is not the average American.

I don't know, the "lock box" idea looks pretty good in retrospect.

Plus, if you can't refute the testimony, Republicans love to discredit the witness, it's the way they do business if you haven't noticed. They love to stir up the emotions through misinformation and innuendo.

This comes from the dirty tricks box of calling someones sister "a card-carrying thespian" and his brother "a known philatelist." If you know what I mean.

critics are holding him to an unrealistic ideal. Think of Ed Begley. Was Ed on your personal radar before HGTV turned his homelife into a dog and pony show? No. How the f*** do you expect people to get out the word about environmental problems, by bicycle and bullhorn? Screw you, repubs. It's a hell of a lot more than any of your sorry asses have every done for the environment. (that's including you "wise use" vampires.)