Thursday, July 24, 2008

A Very Inconvenient Truth

You may have already seen this, but this was forwarded to me by a friend in B.C. It can be confirmed.

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 underg round 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 Al Gore.

HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford , Texas....

It is the residence of George W. Bush.


Wonder who is the better practitioner of environmentalism?

What an inconvenient truth.....

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great insight Glenn! I'm glad to see you're still around. We haven't spoken in a few years. I remember praying for you as you were dealing with cancer I believe, but it's been at least 4-5 years.

Glenn Penner said...

Great to hear from you. Yes, and the silly thing came back after a stem cell transplant. But God is good and we will continue the fight by His grace

Anonymous said...

I don't like Bush. I tend to think of him as a war monger. BUT his personal stewardship of the earth makes me realize that people have more to them than what we see.

Glenn Penner said...

And that was the only point of my posting.

Joel Penner said...

It's funny how, with all the new green technology there, that people still tend to build using old techniques when it come to luxury and wanting to live well. Building green tends to offer the same luxury, sometimes even more luxury, compared to conventional building, I mean... have you seen some of these green homes! wow... you'd think that someone as knowledgeable as Al Gore would realize this. I guess this gives some insight on why he's not president. ;)