A Tale Of Two Houses

This one is very true.   http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp

 

I do wish this kind of stuff would make the news, but it won’t!

 

 

HOUSE # 1: This house has 20-rooms (not including 8  bathrooms) and is heated by  natural gas. In addition, there is a pool  (and a pool house) and a  separate  guest house all heated by gas. In an  average month, this house  consumes  more energy than the average  American household in an average year.   The average bill for electricity  and natural gas runs over $2,400 per month. In natural gas alone, this  property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an  American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern "snow  belt".  It's in the South.  HOUSE # 2: Designed by an architecture professor, this house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house  contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bed rooms) and is nestled on arid  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 winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil  fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the  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. Native flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the  surrounding rural landscape.    HOUSE #1 is outside of  Nashville, Tennessee. It is the private residence of Al Gore.  HOUSE # 2 is near Crawford, Texas. It is the private residence  of George W. Bush

(Now isn't THIS an "Inconvenient Truth"!)