Al Gore's electricity bill goes through the (insulated) roof

Environment campaigner Al Gore is using more electricity than ever despite pledging to cut consumption more than a year ago, a libertarian research group claims.

According to the Tennessee Centre for Policy Research, the annual electricity usage at the former US Vice President's large home in Nashville has risen by 10 per cent.

Mr Gore's environmental activism inspired the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

But the TCPR branded him a "hypocrite" in February 2007 after discovering that his eight-bathroom house in the Tennessee city consumed nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity in the previous year â?? more than 20 times the national average.

Mr Gore responded by saying that he was in the process of giving the house a major energy-efficient makeover, fitting solar panels, low energy lightbulbs, and a geothermal heating and cooling system.

However, the TPCR has got hold of his electricity bill again, this time comparing electricity consumption between the 12 months before June 2007, when it says he installed his new technology, and the year since then.

It says the figures show the Gore residence uses an average of 17,768 kWh per month â??1,638 kWh more energy per month than before the renovations.

By comparison, the average American household consumes 11,040 kWh in an entire year, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Drew Johnson, the TCPR's president, said: "A man's commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home."

A spokesman for Mr Gore disputed the claims, saying his total utility bills had gone down by 40 per cent since the "green" refit, much of that down to the new heating system.

Explaining the electricity consumption, she said the three-year renovation of the house wasn't finished until November so it was too early to draw a before-and-after comparison.

She also stressed that the Gores participate in a local "green power switch" programme which allows them to buy electricity from renewable resources such as wind power and methane gas.
Al Gore's electricity bill goes through the (insulated) roof - Telegraph

Put this on top of his private jet and well, YOU CONSERVE so Al doesn't have to. Oh yeah, be sure to think green, the planet is depending on it. :thumbsup:

Have a good one!:s4:

man, his crops must be off the chain...

hahahaha ND you beat me to it lol! :rastasmoke:

DrSpiggs

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man, his crops must be off the chain...

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Never thought of that....hell, he may be Mr. Green after all.:D

Have a good one!:s4:

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man, his crops must be off the chain...

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.....the local paper said, his grow lights are on for 12 hours a day...growing, tomatoes....:thumbsup:...:wtf:

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.....the local paper said, his grow lights are on for 12 hours a day...growing, tomatoes....:thumbsup:...:wtf:

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gotta love the tomatoes bloom cycle... LADDAMERCY :jointsmile:

I read this same article on another website, but it begs some really essential questions; that being, why would his electricity bill go up if he has indeed installed self-sufficient power sources and superior insulation? It doesn't add up, there's no explanation here whatsoever that explains how or why this would happen. :wtf:

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why would his electricity bill go up if he has indeed installed self-sufficient power sources and superior insulation? It doesn't add up, there's no explanation here whatsoever that explains how or why this would happen. :wtf:

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It all adds up to HYPOCRISY. Al Gore the self proclaimed "inventor of the internet" is a HYPOCRITE! thank god he was not elected president in 2000 or we as Americans wold be in quite a shitty predicament.....:stoned:

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It all adds up to HYPOCRISY. Al Gore the self proclaimed "inventor of the internet" is a HYPOCRITE! thank god he was not elected president in 2000 or we as Americans wold be in quite a shitty predicament.....:stoned:

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Exactly! But hell, he can buy carbon credits from himself in order to feel better. Imagine if the courts gave fines in that order; "Now sir, take the money from your wallet and stick it in your front pocket.". After all, what are carbon credits but a fine on your enviromental damage?

Have a good one!:s4:

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It all adds up to HYPOCRISY. Al Gore the self proclaimed "inventor of the internet" is a HYPOCRITE! thank god he was not elected president in 2000 or we as Americans wold be in quite a shitty predicament.....:stoned:

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Again, this still isn't an explanation. I don't care for Al Gore much my self, but you're all jumping on an opportunity to yell "HYPOCRITE!", and backing up that assertion by yelling "HYPOCRITE". If he has done all these changes to make his house energy-efficient, then there's no hypocricy at play here. Making the effort and doing exactly what he prescribes is what determines whether or not he's a hypocrite, not the success of his attempts.
It's like if said "I support the war in Afghanistan" (and I do), went off to fight there, and got killed before killing a single Taliban fighter. By this logic I'd be a hypocrite too; unless, as I said, somebody can back this up some empiracle evidence, or at least a little explanation.

I do find his massive energy usage really hypocritical considering what he has taken up as his main cause, but the actual fact that his energy went up doesn't mean that his changes didn't work.. it just means that the friggin idiot went and started using more electricity.

My electric bill changed from month to month. Here's an example on a less grand scale than Gores:

I replaced all the lighting in my house with CFLs. Being the moron I am.. I was always conscious of the fact that I had replaced my bulbs.. and as such I did not really reach to turn them off right away as I did with my standard incandescent bulbs. The result.. my bill was about $15-20 higher the next month from leaving lights on.

Yes I did take measures to save power, but it was my own stupidity that made the bill go up.

So for all people that are looking to go green or save money/energy... don't let this article deter you from making some changes.

For all those people that looked up to gore and thought he was great for what he was trying to do for the enviorment.. please take a gander and look at what an idiot the guy is. Actually I can't call him an idiot as I'm sure he is intelligent. We'll just say that he lacks common sense/goes against his own goals and it has proven itself here.

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Again, this still isn't an explanation. I don't care for Al Gore much my self, but you're all jumping on an opportunity to yell "HYPOCRITE!", and backing up that assertion by yelling "HYPOCRITE". If he has done all these changes to make his house energy-efficient, then there's no hypocricy at play here. Making the effort and doing exactly what he prescribes is what determines whether or not he's a hypocrite, not the success of his attempts.
It's like if said "I support the war in Afghanistan" (and I do), went off to fight there, and got killed before killing a single Taliban fighter. By this logic I'd be a hypocrite too; unless, as I said, somebody can back this up some empiracle evidence, or at least a little explanation.

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I believe the hypocrisy is that he's using 17,768KWh a month and is raving about how we need to make changes to improve the enviornment. Yet here he is using nearly twenty thousand kwh a month when the average american household is using 11k a year.

That is the hypocrisy. Not his energy saving tactics but rather the massive energy sink hole that his home is despite his changes. It shows that Al Gore seems indifferent to how much energy he uses but then suggests that we should all do what we can to use less.

Seems Mr. Gore needs to take some more of his own advice.

I despise hypocrisy. So if Al is not living up to his ideals, it is despicable considering how much he pushes it. But I'm with Gandalf on this --- it doesn't stand to reason, and there's no good way to verify it.

Also as Daihashi pointed out, often people who take one kind of energy-saving measure end up feeling like maybe they have saved enough not to have to conserve in other ways, so they end up using MORE energy. It's actually very common, and his example of installing CFLs, then giving up turning off the lights is one that comes up a lot.

However, somehow I don't see Al installing all this energy-saving equipment and then having a net gain in power purchased from the utility. Maybe the figure reflects his gross power usage, but not his net pull from the grid. For example, a person who installed enough solar panels to cover 90% of their electricity purchased from the grid might be justified in letting their gross power consumption go up 10% --- maybe run the air conditioner more than they used to, because the electricity is almost all being made for free. They use 10% more than they used to total, but they are only pulling 20% of what they used to from the grid. The article desn't say whether it is gross or net.

And another factor could be the power used to actually do the retrofit of the house. I had a kitchen remodeled, and my power use went throught the roof during the couple of months it took to finish because of the doors left open all day and the holes in the house.

LOL, heck man, he's probably just running the lights night and day trying to invent the outernet, lol, he already invented the internet

seriously though folks, Al Gore is a nitwit, plain and simple (hell, that works too, lol, the simple part anyway)

maybe we should all vote for Al Gore for president with Dan Quayle as his VP, maybe between them, they can find a clue

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LOL, heck man, he's probably just running the lights night and day trying to invent the outernet, lol, he already invented the internet

seriously though folks, Al Gore is a nitwit, plain and simple (hell, that works too, lol, the simple part anyway)

maybe we should all vote for Al Gore for president with Dan Quayle as his VP, maybe between them, they can find a clue

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Oh my god.. there's a name from the past I had long forgotten. Dan Quayle. I was about 9 years old when this guy took office and I knew he was an idiot then. Pretty bad when you're 9 and you can tell that the Vice President is a nimrod.

and I lol'd so hard at the outernet comment. ROFL :thumbsup:

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However, somehow I don't see Al installing all this energy-saving equipment and then having a net gain in power purchased from the utility. Maybe the figure reflects his gross power usage, but not his net pull from the grid. For example, a person who installed enough solar panels to cover 90% of their electricity purchased from the grid might be justified in letting their gross power consumption go up 10% --- maybe run the air conditioner more than they used to, because the electricity is almost all being made for free. They use 10% more than they used to total, but they are only pulling 20% of what they used to from the grid. The article desn't say whether it is gross or net.

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This part of your post sold me right here. I had completely forgotten tying into the grid and reselling your power back to the company. I'd be interested in knowing if that 17-18k figure was his adjusted/corrected power usage or just his overall.

Good point dragonrider.

ps: Doesn't change the fact that Al Gore lacks the common sense that even a 5 year old would have. On a positive note.. at least he did save us from ManBearPig. Everyone says he won the nobel prize for his environmental efforts but we all know it's due to his battle and eliminating ManBearPig.

LONG LIVE GORE.

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This part of your post sold me right here. I had completely forgotten tying into the grid and reselling your power back to the company. I'd be interested in knowing if that 17-18k figure was his adjusted/corrected power usage or just his overall.

Good point dragonrider.

ps: Doesn't change the fact that Al Gore lacks the common sense that even a 5 year old would have. On a positive note.. at least he did save us from ManBearPig. Everyone says he won the nobel prize for his environmental efforts but we all know it's due to his battle and eliminating ManBearPig.

LONG LIVE GORE.

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Perhaps ManBearPig is going around Gore's house turning on all the lights and cranking up the thermostat.

LOL, i just looked up 'ManBearPig', ROTFLMAO, what a fucking maroon. here is the first paragraph from wikipedia

'Al Gore visits South Park Elementary School and talks about the terrible ManBearPig, who roams the Earth and attacks humans. According to Al Gore, ManBearPig is "half man, half bear, half pig." After the boys' basketball game is interrupted by another visit from Al Gore, who is disguised (poorly) as the ManBearPig and claims to be "Trying to spread ManBearPig awareness". Suddenly, Stan's father, Randy picks up the boys to drive them home. Randy says the former U.S. Vice President is just desperate for attention, because he has no friends. Al Gore then phones Stan in the morning when it is still dark and begins pestering him. Gore then breaks down on the phone, and Stan reluctantly agrees to go to a meeting, where Al Gore tells Stan and his friends that ManBearPig is hiding in the Cave of the Winds. At first the children are reluctant to go with him, but when he explains that he will excuse the children from school, they agree to go. During the course of this episode, Al Gore repeatedly states, "Manbearpig must be stopped!" as well as the phrase, "Excelthior!" (after "Excelsior!") and, "I'm Cereal!" (meaning "serious;" see Cultural References below.).'


lol, lol, lol what a putz, he can't even stop being a fool when talking to little kids! (man, this shit is sad 'cause you almost believe it, lol)

anyway, here's a pic of Al and his mom with some of his sibs, lol

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LOL, i just looked up 'ManBearPig', ROTFLMAO, what a fucking maroon. here is the first paragraph from wikipedia

'Al Gore visits South Park Elementary School and talks about the terrible ManBearPig, who roams the Earth and attacks humans. According to Al Gore, ManBearPig is "half man, half bear, half pig." After the boys' basketball game is interrupted by another visit from Al Gore, who is disguised (poorly) as the ManBearPig and claims to be "Trying to spread ManBearPig awareness". Suddenly, Stan's father, Randy picks up the boys to drive them home. Randy says the former U.S. Vice President is just desperate for attention, because he has no friends. Al Gore then phones Stan in the morning when it is still dark and begins pestering him. Gore then breaks down on the phone, and Stan reluctantly agrees to go to a meeting, where Al Gore tells Stan and his friends that ManBearPig is hiding in the Cave of the Winds. At first the children are reluctant to go with him, but when he explains that he will excuse the children from school, they agree to go. During the course of this episode, Al Gore repeatedly states, "Manbearpig must be stopped!" as well as the phrase, "Excelthior!" (after "Excelsior!") and, "I'm Cereal!" (meaning "serious;" see Cultural References below.).'


lol, lol, lol what a putz, he can't even stop being a fool when talking to little kids! (man, this shit is sad 'cause you almost believe it, lol)

anyway, here's a pic of Al and his mom with some of his sibs, lol

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Ha ha! It is funny. But you know that Southpark is just a cartoon. Right, Justanotherbozo? Just a cartoon?

Anyway, where did you get the picture? That actually kind of creeped me out...

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Ha ha! It is funny. But you know that Southpark is just a cartoon. Right, Justanotherbozo? Just a cartoon?

Anyway, where did you get the picture? That actually kind of creeped me out...

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lol, re-read my last post, like i said, it's sad 'cause you almost believe it

the picture i found doing a Google for 'manbearpig'

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lol, re-read my last post, like i said, it's sad 'cause you almost believe it

the picture i found doing a Google for 'manbearpig'

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I see what you were saying.

I think I like the cartoon ManBearPig better that the too-realistic sculpture. I'll have to do something to put that image out of my mind. Hmmmmm... What should I do? I'll think of something.....

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I see what you were saying.

I think I like the cartoon ManBearPig better that the too-realistic sculpture. I'll have to do something to put that image out of my mind. Hmmmmm... What should I do? I'll think of something.....

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does this help?

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I see what you were saying.

I think I like the cartoon ManBearPig better that the too-realistic sculpture. I'll have to do something to put that image out of my mind. Hmmmmm... What should I do? I'll think of something.....

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maybe this one?

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I see what you were saying.

I think I like the cartoon ManBearPig better that the too-realistic sculpture. I'll have to do something to put that image out of my mind. Hmmmmm... What should I do? I'll think of something.....

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how about just Hillary? or you could call tech support.

Ok, bring back the ManBearPig, please! I'm going to go blind or insane!