medicinal
03-08-2007, 05:45 AM
Al Gore's Electricity Really $432 a Month
by dotcommodity
Wed Mar 07, 2007 at 07:14:35 PM PST
Today I spoke with Jo Lynn, the representative from Green Power Switch, the company Al Gore buys his electricity from. I had called her a week ago and left a message that I wanted to buy a Green Power Switch Gift Certificate to buy Green Power for someone who lived in the Tennessee Valley Authority coverage area (Senator Inohofe, but I'll get to that later).
She took a week to call me back, so I guess business is brisk. As soon as she got on the phone I cut to the chase. Is it true I asked, what is written everywhere that Al Gore spends lavishly on your Green Power Switch electricity?
She laughed and said, I wouldn't call it lavish, exactly. He pays somewhere under $500 average a month for his electricity. I said, But that's not the thousands quoted by the FossilFool Attack Machine Main Stream Media. She said, Oh? Mih local paper covered it pretty accurately. What paper is that I asked? She told me it's The Tennessean.
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I told her I was surprised that his bill was so low, considering the huge numbers bandied about. She seemed to think this was just silliness.
She told me that her local paper, The Tennessean, had investigated the smear and has satisfied its readers that rumours of his profligacy were indeed unfounded and she is right:
...Electric bills obtained by The Tennessean, however, showed that Gore is paying a premium on his bills to be part of the "green power" program. Gore purchased 108 blocks of "green power" for at least each of the last three months, according to a summary of bills from Nashville Electric Service.
That??s a total of $432 a month spent to pay extra for solar or other renewable energy sources. NES power ?? outside this program - is derived largely from coal, which emits carbon, a green house gas.
I asked her how the Green Power Switch works, did he buy any dirty power? Was the $434 just the green sort of "extra" part of his bill? Was there a regular bill too?
No, she told me his entire bill is for Green Power exclusively, and its $400 something average. She said that that is unusual. Most people pay the regluar bill and buy just a little extra per month, most $20 or less extra per month to help grow the Green Power business, but Al Gore buys only the Green Power, his bill is entirely made up of the $4 units of Green Power.
Of course as she pointed out to me " of course, we can't tell those electrons where to go" so even though he pays for exclusively Green Power, the Green Power gets muddied in with the dirty power in the transmission lines.
So theres the real shocker folks right there!
HEADLINE NEWS:
Al Gore's So Called Green Energy mingles in with dirty electrons in the powerlines!
I could hardly conceal my horror. But I had to know. Enquiring Minds Want To Know, unlike those in the media.
So my next question was, well, is it doing any good? Is this So Called environmentalist, who allows his green electrons to mingle with nasty dirty electrons from some of the worst environmental scofflaws in the Fossil States - when this evil, evil man pays all his electricity kitty to Green Power Switch: Well, is that helping to grow their alternative energy business?
Yes, as it turns out.
Jo Lynn told me that when they started Green Power Switch in 2000, they had "only 3 Wind Turbines and a handfull of Solar".
Thanks to Al Gore, and customers like him, they now have "18 Wind Turbines and 16 Solar Installations" providing Green Power to residents in 4 states. She pointed out that "ironicly some of the Wind turbines are out on reclaimed coal mining operations that had got closed down for being environmental catastrophes."
So if you are curious about the truth, try calling the source yourself, and just ask. I hope I don't get her in trouble because she was a nice lady, and theirs is a nice business. I wish them well.
Al Gore chose to buy his electricity exclusively from the Green Power Switch. This has helped grow green energy in Tennessee 500% in 6 years. Thats really the headline.
Vice President Al Gore grows Tennessee Green Energy 500% in 6 years, by taking action as a consumer.
by dotcommodity
Wed Mar 07, 2007 at 07:14:35 PM PST
Today I spoke with Jo Lynn, the representative from Green Power Switch, the company Al Gore buys his electricity from. I had called her a week ago and left a message that I wanted to buy a Green Power Switch Gift Certificate to buy Green Power for someone who lived in the Tennessee Valley Authority coverage area (Senator Inohofe, but I'll get to that later).
She took a week to call me back, so I guess business is brisk. As soon as she got on the phone I cut to the chase. Is it true I asked, what is written everywhere that Al Gore spends lavishly on your Green Power Switch electricity?
She laughed and said, I wouldn't call it lavish, exactly. He pays somewhere under $500 average a month for his electricity. I said, But that's not the thousands quoted by the FossilFool Attack Machine Main Stream Media. She said, Oh? Mih local paper covered it pretty accurately. What paper is that I asked? She told me it's The Tennessean.
dotcommodity's diary :: ::
I told her I was surprised that his bill was so low, considering the huge numbers bandied about. She seemed to think this was just silliness.
She told me that her local paper, The Tennessean, had investigated the smear and has satisfied its readers that rumours of his profligacy were indeed unfounded and she is right:
...Electric bills obtained by The Tennessean, however, showed that Gore is paying a premium on his bills to be part of the "green power" program. Gore purchased 108 blocks of "green power" for at least each of the last three months, according to a summary of bills from Nashville Electric Service.
That??s a total of $432 a month spent to pay extra for solar or other renewable energy sources. NES power ?? outside this program - is derived largely from coal, which emits carbon, a green house gas.
I asked her how the Green Power Switch works, did he buy any dirty power? Was the $434 just the green sort of "extra" part of his bill? Was there a regular bill too?
No, she told me his entire bill is for Green Power exclusively, and its $400 something average. She said that that is unusual. Most people pay the regluar bill and buy just a little extra per month, most $20 or less extra per month to help grow the Green Power business, but Al Gore buys only the Green Power, his bill is entirely made up of the $4 units of Green Power.
Of course as she pointed out to me " of course, we can't tell those electrons where to go" so even though he pays for exclusively Green Power, the Green Power gets muddied in with the dirty power in the transmission lines.
So theres the real shocker folks right there!
HEADLINE NEWS:
Al Gore's So Called Green Energy mingles in with dirty electrons in the powerlines!
I could hardly conceal my horror. But I had to know. Enquiring Minds Want To Know, unlike those in the media.
So my next question was, well, is it doing any good? Is this So Called environmentalist, who allows his green electrons to mingle with nasty dirty electrons from some of the worst environmental scofflaws in the Fossil States - when this evil, evil man pays all his electricity kitty to Green Power Switch: Well, is that helping to grow their alternative energy business?
Yes, as it turns out.
Jo Lynn told me that when they started Green Power Switch in 2000, they had "only 3 Wind Turbines and a handfull of Solar".
Thanks to Al Gore, and customers like him, they now have "18 Wind Turbines and 16 Solar Installations" providing Green Power to residents in 4 states. She pointed out that "ironicly some of the Wind turbines are out on reclaimed coal mining operations that had got closed down for being environmental catastrophes."
So if you are curious about the truth, try calling the source yourself, and just ask. I hope I don't get her in trouble because she was a nice lady, and theirs is a nice business. I wish them well.
Al Gore chose to buy his electricity exclusively from the Green Power Switch. This has helped grow green energy in Tennessee 500% in 6 years. Thats really the headline.
Vice President Al Gore grows Tennessee Green Energy 500% in 6 years, by taking action as a consumer.