I felt obligated to find the real facts surrounding the accusations that have been made against Al Gore. Let me also state that I am neither Democratic or Republican. I am not a party voter, but make my decisions based on policy and stance.

I did a little investigation of my own regarding Al Gore's home and President Bush's home. Based on an average monthly energy consumption per household in Texas of 500 kWh/month and the idea that Bush's home uses 25% less than the average home, Bush's home consumes roughly 125 kWh/month. Let it also be known that although Bush's home does not directly use fossil fuels such as natural gas, most of the energy consumed is derived from fossil fuels. To be exact, 49.7% of energy is from coal and 18.7% of energy is from natural gas. I left out other sources such as nuclear (which is the wave of the future), petroleum, hydrolic, and other renewables for simplicity.

Based on Al Gore's monthly bill that you claim he pays, which I'll correct later, he uses roughly 320 kWh/month. These figures are based on the national average of 7.51 cents/kWh produced for natural gas.

Based on these two consumptions, Al Gore's home needs 2.4 million Btu/month or 28.8 million Btu/year of natural gas. President Bush's home uses .625 million Btu/yr in coal (7.5 Btu/yr) and .175 million Btu/month in natural gas (2.1 Btu/yr). President Bush's makeup is again based on the electric power generation makeup in the United States.

If we take this further and analyze the pollutants created by each home then we can further see the difference. Al Gore's home produces 3370 lbs/yr of Carbon Dioxide and President Bush's home produces 1806 lbs/yr.
Carbon Monoxide: Gore-1.152 lbs/yr Bush-1.644 lbs/yr
Nitrogen Oxides: Gore-2.65 lbs/yr Bush-3.62 lbs/yr
Sulfur Dioxides: Gore-.0288 lbs/yr Bush-19.43 lbs/yr
Particulates: Gore-.2016 lbs/yr Bush-20.50 lbs/yr

You can see that besdies Carbon Dioxide, President Bush's home produces more pollutants than Al Gore's home.

Now if we want to talk about efficiency then compare President Bush's pollutants for a 400 square foot home to Al Gore's pollutants for his 10,000 square foot home. It seems President Bush's home is less efficient than President Bush's.

Lastly, let me correct some points that were said previous to this. Al Gore's home is 10,000 square feet and according to utility records, cost $1,200 per month in 2006. A bit out of reach of the $2,400 previous noted. Also, I did google this information. It should also be known that Al Gore buys renewable energy blocks from his utility provider at an extra $4 per block. He purchases 108 blocks per month. If you take out the amount of renewable energy that Al Gore is purchasing to preserve the environment then his monthly utility bill would be $768 per month. Not only that but the pollutants that I calculated should be drastically lower than I previously tabulated.

Thanks and gig'em.

Nate '05

Originally posted by

Ebb Pye '60

Just watched the global warming youtube video on this web page. Texas A&M does not need to waste time with these tree hugging useful idiots (Google this and see what it means). Their message is without scientific foundation and the promoters of this movement (like al gore) have no clue about what they are talking about.

A little side information for you that you may want to put in your paper:

LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU
CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST.

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 guesthouse all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), 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," either. 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 contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) 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. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE # 1: (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore

HOUSE # 2: (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as "the Texas White House," it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.