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pulled from MsPoetress' post. This is the article.

Armed with Gore's utility bills for the last two years, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged Monday that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president's 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.

"If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility bills, I wouldn't care," says the Center's 27-year-old president, Drew Johnson. "But he tells other people how to live and he's not following his own rules."
The Center claims that Nashville Electric Services records show the Gores in 2006 averaged a monthly electricity bill of $1,359 for using 18,414 kilowatt-hours, and $1,461 per month for using 16,200 kilowatt-hours in 2005. During that time, Nashville Gas Company billed the family an average of $536 a month for the main house and $544 for the pool house in 2006, and $640 for the main house and $525 for the pool house in 2005. That averages out to be $29,268 in gas and electric bills for the Gores in 2006, $31,512 in 2005.
The press release from Johnson's group, an obscure conservative think tank founded by Johnson in 2004 when he was 24, was given splashy attention on the highly-trafficked Drudge Report Monday evening, and former Gore aides saw it as part of a piece, along with an Fox News Channel investigation from earlier this month of Gore's use of private planes in 2000. Last year, a seemingly amateurish Youtube video mocking the "An Inconvenient Truth" turned out to have been produced by slick Republican public relations firm called DCI, which just happens to have oil giant Exxon as a client.

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ORIGINAL: MsPoetress

See my post on Run, Al

http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=860977

~poe

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

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ORIGINAL: MsPoetress

See my post on Run, Al

http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=860977

~poe

Poetress, they used to call them "Limosine Liberals" but now that they all have private planes they're "Gulfstream Liberals."
"Do what I say not what I do."
Like John "French" Kerry said, "(I) don't own 7 SUVs MY FAMILY owns 7 SUVs."
And a private jet ("The Flying Squirel"), 5 or is it 6 Mansions, an ISLAND, (Naushaun Island in Cape Cod, Mass), a yacht "Scaramouche".
I bet the jet and the yacht can chew up some dinosaur juice!
And of course they "believe" in Public schools but they *never, never, never* send their own kids to them!
"The Secret Service told us not to."
 
The secret service doesnt like to take the chance they might be out gunned thats why chelsea went to private school, instead of a DC local.

"It's too far away."
"The kids were ALREADY in Philips Exeter Academy so....."
Or the "better served" excuse.
"We just feel that little johnny would be "better served" by going to....."

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And of course they "believe" in Public schools but they *never, never, never* send their own kids to them!

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle

And look where THAT got her. She'll never be part of a dynasty like Barbara Jr. and Jenna.

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ORIGINAL: domiguy

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pulled from MsPoetress' post. This is the article.

Armed with Gore's utility bills for the last two years, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged Monday that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president's 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.

"If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility bills, I wouldn't care," says the Center's 27-year-old president, Drew Johnson. "But he tells other people how to live and he's not following his own rules."
The Center claims that Nashville Electric Services records show the Gores in 2006 averaged a monthly electricity bill of $1,359 for using 18,414 kilowatt-hours, and $1,461 per month for using 16,200 kilowatt-hours in 2005. During that time, Nashville Gas Company billed the family an average of $536 a month for the main house and $544 for the pool house in 2006, and $640 for the main house and $525 for the pool house in 2005. That averages out to be $29,268 in gas and electric bills for the Gores in 2006, $31,512 in 2005.
The press release from Johnson's group, an obscure conservative think tank founded by Johnson in 2004 when he was 24, was given splashy attention on the highly-trafficked Drudge Report Monday evening, and former Gore aides saw it as part of a piece, along with an Fox News Channel investigation from earlier this month of Gore's use of private planes in 2000. Last year, a seemingly amateurish Youtube video mocking the "An Inconvenient Truth" turned out to have been produced by slick Republican public relations firm called DCI, which just happens to have oil giant Exxon as a client.

$30,000 in utility costs annually  is a shitload to be spending, but it is a twenty room house...The guy is rich!
That is just one house.

Oprah has a mansion why not attack her?
I cannot find anything to despute she is isn't using some sort of energy saving system, but I cannot find anything that states she does.

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Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.

http://belowthebeltway.com/2006/08/10/al-gore-is-a-hypocrite/

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ORIGINAL: ElectraGlide

Gore should of left a bigger footprint of himself in his homestate of Tenn. Then he would of had the boost he needed to be the President.

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ORIGINAL: domiguy

The "Center" which discovered this usage doesn't discuss the size of the home...It's twenty rooms!...The Center has an agenda...a conservative one!

So this is where you get your news....Whenever I read an article I always consider the source and do they have an overt or hidden agenda...left/right....

$30,000 in utility costs annually  is a shitload to be spending, but it is a twenty room house...The guy is rich!  The question one would actually want to ask is how much do other twenty room houses with a pool and a guest house pay in utilities a year.

Oprah has a mansion why not attack her? she has done shows on global warming...Because she is not in the political arena that's why. This is why politics blow right now.

Whether Global warming is a serious concern is something people can debate....What cannot be debated is the fact that pouring all of this shit into the atmosphere does and is going to have some sort of detrimental affect on the planet, us, as well as all other living things...

Lake Michigan is huge...We have fish advisories, beach closings, and the Chicago river (which connects with lake Michigan) is so polluted you are not even supposed to swim in it because of all of the waste we have pumped into the lake...there is always a cause and affect...Whether you dislike the message or the messenger it is something that is foolish to ignore or just simply push under the rug.

But I figure it would never occur for anyone to think like that. Is Al Gore entitled to live in a "mansion?" I suppose people are entitled to the lifestyle they have earned.... Is it hypocritical, maybe.

What is more offensive in this article is that a Conservative group put out a video on you tube...And tried to pass it off as an amateur production....I guess if you don't care about the truth you will seek your news from whatever source that doesn't contrast with your political views....This way you don't have to hurt yourself by thinking.
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ORIGINAL: domiguy


The "Center" which discovered this usage doesn't discuss the size of the home...It's twenty rooms!...The Center has an agenda...a conservative one!

So this is where you get your news....Whenever I read an article I always consider the source and do they have an overt or hidden agenda...left/right....

$30,000 in utility costs annually  is a shitload to be spending, but it is a twenty room house...The guy is rich!  The question one would actually want to ask is how much do other twenty room houses with a pool and a guest house pay in utilities a year.

Oprah has a mansion why not attack her? she has done shows on global warming...Because she is not in the political arena that's why. This is why politics blow right now.

Whether Global warming is a serious concern is something people can debate....What cannot be debated is the fact that pouring all of this shit into the atmosphere does and is going to have some sort of detrimental affect on the planet, us, as well as all other living things...

Lake Michigan is huge...We have fish advisories, beach closings, and the Chicago river (which connects with lake Michigan) is so polluted you are not even supposed to swim in it because of all of the waste we have pumped into the lake...there is always a cause and affect...Whether you dislike the message or the messenger it is something that is foolish to ignore or just simply push under the rug.

But I figure it would never occur for anyone to think like that. Is Al Gore entitled to live in a "mansion?" I suppose people are entitled to the lifestyle they have earned.... Is it hypocritical, maybe.

What is more offensive in this article is that a Conservative group put out a video on you tube...And tried to pass it off as an amateur production....I guess if you don't care about the truth you will seek your news from whatever source that doesn't contrast with your political views....This way you don't have to hurt yourself by thinking.