EXCLUSIVE: Al Gore’s Home Devours 34 Times More Electricity Than Average U.S. Household

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

reckon this is an inconvenient truth 

http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/02/exclusive-al-gores-home-devours-34-times-more-electricity-than-average-u-s-household/

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Who's Al Gore? 

[IAMX 3,055]

5 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

reckon this is an inconvenient truth 

http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/02/exclusive-al-gores-home-devours-34-times-more-electricity-than-average-u-s-household/

He can just sell himself carbon credits. Then he's paid his moral penance.

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

A couple of guys pretty much said the same thing I was thinking today which was "I do believe about climate change, but I will never believe the catastrophic change they are talking about. Nor will I ever give up anything for the greater good as long as fakers like Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio are doing what they are doing". 

Al Gore's house uses more electricity than any other house in the state of Tennessee.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

23 minutes ago, cyberfx1024 said:

A couple of guys pretty much said the same thing I was thinking today which was "I do believe about climate change, but I will never believe the catastrophic change they are talking about. Nor will I ever give up anything for the greater good as long as fakers like Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio are doing what they are doing". 

Al Gore's house uses more electricity than any other house in the state of Tennessee.

Why would you do anything based on something Gore and DiCaprio are doing? 

[IAMX 3,055]

44 minutes ago, cyberfx1024 said:

A couple of guys pretty much said the same thing I was thinking today which was "I do believe about climate change, but I will never believe the catastrophic change they are talking about. Nor will I ever give up anything for the greater good as long as fakers like Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio are doing what they are doing". 

Al Gore's house uses more electricity than any other house in the state of Tennessee.

Yeah. It's impossible to not believe climate changes.. it's clear even for Americans, the climate wants to expand the desert southwest. 

 

However, the idea that humans are any decent degree responsible? That humans can even offset the Earths climate changes by making political and economic changes that align with environmentalist agenda? Please. The environmentalist nutjobs have tried for way beyond my lifetime to force people into their political agenda. Piggybacking on science and destroying science in the process has thus far been the closest they've come to the kind of dictatorial changes they've desired. Problem is, they can't manage to get to the finish line quick enough (along with the doom and gloom + hysteria message of acting now) before people start using critical thinking. The reason science is successful has been entirely because of results. There are no results here, just declarations and inaccurate models.. so once we look beyond this, all thats left is politicians and environut celebrities who look really stupid when they go to other areas and try to destroy economies while trying to further enrich themselves. DiCaprio looked like a complete fool to Albertans, he's still made fun of today for his stupidity about the oil sands.

Edited August 3, 2017 by IAMX

[IAMX 3,055]

Lets not forget DiCrapio's comments on chinooks here, which he said is global warming.. when in fact it's simple physics.

 

 

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Leonardo DiCaprio's chinook climate change comments mocked by Alberta politicos on Twitter

 

 

Several Alberta politicians and even the chair of the province's climate change panel, Andrew Leach, had a bit of fun on Twitter this week mocking Leonardo DiCaprio.

 

 

I can assure you that acting on the recommendations of the Alberta climate change panel will NOT prevent chinooks.

— @andrew_leach

 

 

Someone also might have wanted to show Leonardo DiCaprio this https://t.co/DEjSugN5jg

— @MichelleRempel

 

Something completely different... @kathytelfer: .@LeoDiCaprio made me laugh out loud #sad #actorslifehttps://t.co/AoREnXLyDU"

— @RicMcIver

It all started after the Hollywood star called a chinook — a totally normal weather phenomenon that brings warm winds to southern Alberta as long as Albertans have been recording weather — climate change.

• The chinook: Calgary's reprieve from the grasp of winter

DiCaprio experienced the magic of a chinook, which he described as "scary" in a Variety.com article while shooting The Revenant near Calgary last winter.

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"I've never experienced something so first-hand that was so dramatic. You see the fragility of nature and how easily things can be completely transformed with just a few degrees difference. It's terrifying, and it's what people are talking about all over the world. And it's simply just going to get worse," said DiCaprio.

"We were in Calgary and the locals were saying, 'This has never happened in our province ever.' We would come and there would be eight feet of snow, and then all of a sudden a warm gust of wind would come."

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And it's not just Alberta politicos who are poking fun at DiCaprio's comments. Pretty much all of the province is taking this one and running with it.

 

A Chinook is a warm wind that Calgarians welcome. #LeonardoDiCaprio is a hot fart that blew in and left an unwanted stench in the air.

— @Schwenns_C

 

@LeoDiCaprio @OilsandsAction @ABDanielleSmith y is he against the oilgas biz? What pwrs his boat and the tobac farms pic.twitter.com/PG1POxA8ar

— @kailesandchyna

 

 

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/leonardo-dicaprio-chinooks-climate-change-1.3358972

 

The message is the same.. adopt our policies or apocalyptic changes. Resonates less and less on people with critical thinking skills.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

12 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

reckon this is an inconvenient truth 

http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/02/exclusive-al-gores-home-devours-34-times-more-electricity-than-average-u-s-household/

CLAIM:   Al Gore’s residence uses considerably more energy than the average American home.

STATUS:   MIXTURE.

EXAMPLE:   [Collected February 2007]

Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”
Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average:  http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/gorehome.asp

Edited August 3, 2017 by Penguin_ie
tos

[eieio 1,594]

1 hour ago, IAMX said:

Yeah. It's impossible to not believe climate changes.. it's clear even for Americans, the climate wants to expand the desert southwest. 

 

However, the idea that humans are any decent degree responsible? That humans can even offset the Earths climate changes by making political and economic changes that align with environmentalist agenda? Please. The environmentalist nutjobs have tried for way beyond my lifetime to force people into their political agenda. Piggybacking on science and destroying science in the process has thus far been the closest they've come to the kind of dictatorial changes they've desired. Problem is, they can't manage to get to the finish line quick enough (along with the doom and gloom + hysteria message of acting now) before people start using critical thinking. The reason science is successful has been entirely because of results. There are no results here, just declarations and inaccurate models.. so once we look beyond this, all thats left is politicians and environut celebrities who look really stupid when they go to other areas and try to destroy economies while trying to further enrich themselves. DiCaprio looked like a complete fool to Albertans, he's still made fun of today for his stupidity about the oil sands.

Excellent post. 

 

Some on the left seem to believe that a fake consensus is all the proof one needs to say man is the cause( oh and women too)

 

never mind that science is not a consensus.

[CaliCat 3,957]

2 hours ago, spookyturtle said:

Why would you do anything based on something Gore and DiCaprio are doing? 

 

There are no other role models left in the world. They are the last ones. 

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

1 hour ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

CLAIM:   Al Gore’s residence uses considerably more energy than the average American home.

STATUS:   MIXTURE.

EXAMPLE:   [Collected February 2007]

Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”
Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average

Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee

Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.

Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric
Service (NES).

In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.

The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh – more than 20 times the national average.

Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh-guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s
average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.

Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.

Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.

“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research
President Drew Johnson.

In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.

ORIGINS:   The above-quoted 2007 report from the Tennessee Center for Policy Research (TCPR), claiming that Al Gore’s Tennessee home uses over 20 times more energy than the average

Gore house

U.S. home, was released the day after the former vice-president’s film about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary.

The specific numbers involved were disputable (the TCPR claimed Gore’s home uses electricity at a rate more than “20 times the national average,” while the Associated Press reported that its own review of bills indicated that the Gores’ Nashville household used more than 12 times the average for a typical household in that area), but the basic gist of the claim — that the Gores’ Nashville residence consumed a larger proportion of energy than the average American home — was true.

Some important points not covered in the report, however, was whether equating the Gores’ home to the average American home was really a relevant comparison. A spokesperson for the Gore family responded by noting some mitigating factors, such as the fact that the Gores’ Nashville residence isn’t an “average” house — it’s about four times larger than the average new American home built in 2006, and it essentially functions as both a residence and a business office since both Al and Tipper work out of their home. The Tennessean also noted that the Gores had been paying a $432 per month premium on their monthly electricity bills in order to obtain some of their electricity from “green” sources (i.e., solar or other renewable energy sources). Other factors (such as the climate in the area where the home is located and its size) make the Gore home’s energy usage comparable to that of other homes in the same area.

The former vice-president maintained that comparing raw energy-usage figures is misleading and that he leads what he advocates, a “carbon-neutral lifestyle,” by purchasing energy from renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and methane gas to balance out the carbon emissions produced in generating the electricity his home uses:

Kalee Kreider, a spokesperson for the Gores, pointed out that both Al and Tipper Gore work out of their home and she argued that “the bottom line is that every family has a different carbon footprint. And what Vice President Gore has asked is for families to calculate that footprint and take steps to reduce and offset it.”
A carbon footprint is a calculation of the CO2 fossil fuel emissions each person is responsible for, either directly because of his or her transportation and energy consumption or indirectly because of the manufacture and eventual breakdown of products he or she uses.

The vice president has done that, Kreider argues, and the family tries to offset that carbon footprint by purchasing their power through the local Green Power Switch program — electricity generated through renewable resources such as solar, wind, and methane gas, which create less waste and pollution. “In addition, they are in the midst of installing solar panels on their home, which will enable them to use less power,” Kreider added. “They also use compact fluorescent bulbs and other energy efficiency measures and then they purchase offsets for their carbon emissions to bring their carbon footprint down to zero.”

Also, by the end of 2007 the Gores completed renovations that made their home much more energy-efficient:

Al Gore, who was criticized for high electric bills at his Tennessee mansion, has completed a host of improvements to make the home more energy efficient, and a building-industry group has praised the house as one of the nation’s most environmentally friendly.
The former vice president has installed solar panels, a rainwater-collection system and geothermal heating. He also replaced all incandescent lights with compact fluorescent or light-emitting diode bulbs.

“Short of tearing it down and staring anew, I don’t know how it could have been rated any higher,” said Kim Shinn of the U.S. Green Building Council, which gave the house its second-highest rating for sustainable design.

Gore’s improvements cut the home’s summer electrical consumption by 11 percent compared with a year ago, according to utility records reviewed by The Associated Press. Most Nashville homes used 20 percent to 30 percent more electricity during the same period because of a record heat wave.

LAST UPDATED:   28 September 2009
 

Yeah good job pulling up an article from nearly 8 years ago about how he supposedly improvements to his house. How about I bring up some articles from this year.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/al-gore-used-over-20-times-more-energy-to-power-his-home-for-a-year-than-the-average-american-report/article/2630475

http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA679.html

The Home

Al Gore resides in a 10,070-square-foot Colonial-style home in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, the eighth-wealthiest neighborhood in America according to the U.S. Census Bureau.⁷

The home, which was built in 1915, contains 20 rooms – including five bedrooms, eight full bathrooms and two half-baths. Gore purchased the property, including the home and the surrounding 2.09 acre lot, in 2002 for $2.3 million.⁸

In 2010, Gore announced that he and wife Tipper were divorcing after 40 years of marriage.⁹According to media speculation, Tipper likely lives in the $8.9 million California home the couple purchased weeks before the separation.¹⁰ The Gores have four grown children who no longer live at home. That leaves the former vice president as presumably the only occupant of the home, making his energy consumption even more staggering.

Gore also owns at least two other homes, a pied-à-terre in San Francisco's St. Regis Residence Club and a farm house in Carthage, Tennessee.¹¹

 

Home Energy Consumption

The average annual electricity consumption for a residential utility customer in America is 10,812 kWh, or 901 kWh per month, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.¹² In the past 12 months, Gore's home burned through a total of 163,830 kWh. Heating the home's pool consumed another 66,159 kWh. An entry gate used an additional 900 kWh. This comes to a total of 230,889 kWh consumed at the Gore estate in a year.

That 19,241 kWh average monthly electricity usage is 21.3 times more energy than a typical American household consumes in a month.

Gore's electricity consumption is unfriendly to both the environment and his wallet. The former vice president's electric bill averaged $1,800 a month over the past year, not including $432 he paid each month for donations to the Green Power Switch program. Last September alone, Gore spent more than $3,000 on electricity. From August 2016 through July 2017, Gore paid nearly $22,000 for the energy he consumed in his Belle Meade home.

In 2007, when Gore was exposed by the Tennessee Center for Policy Research for his hypocritical home energy use, the house guzzled over 220,000 kWh of electricity a year.¹³ That outrageous amount has increased by more than 10,000 kWh per year even though Gore completed a green overhaul on his home, including adding solar panels to offset electricity consumption by the property.

Edited August 3, 2017 by cyberfx1024

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

Green Upgrades

After facing criticism for his colossal consumption of electricity at his Nashville home in 2007, Gore pledged to make the property more environmentally friendly.

The extensive and expensive overhaul of Gore's house included upgrading the home's windows and ductwork, updating the insulation and putting in a driveway rainwater collection system for irrigation and water management.¹⁶ Additionally, Gore installed a geothermal heating system.¹⁷ Gore also went to the trouble of replacing his incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs.¹⁸

Most famously, the Nobel laureate installed 33 solar panels in an attempt to offset a portion of his steep energy usage.¹⁹ According to 2011 data from the Nashville Electric Service, Gore's solar panels produce an average of 1,092 kWh of electricity per month. Unfortunately for the former vice president, his solar panels produce only 5.7% of the energy his home consumes.

Gore receives a credit of 12 cents per kWh of the solar energy he produces through NES' "Generation Partners" program.²⁰ NES records indicate Gore began receiving credits for producing solar power from his roof-mounted solar panels in March 2009.

During the course of a year, however, Gore's massive expanse of solar panels only produces enough electricity to offset his home energy use for less than 21 days.

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5 hours ago, spookyturtle said:

Why would you do anything based on something Gore and DiCaprio are doing? 

Personally I wouldn't, but I believe there are a lot of people that would otherwise these guys would be rather popular spokespeople for this movement.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

2 hours ago, cyberfx1024 said:

Green Upgrades

After facing criticism for his colossal consumption of electricity at his Nashville home in 2007, Gore pledged to make the property more environmentally friendly.

The extensive and expensive overhaul of Gore's house included upgrading the home's windows and ductwork, updating the insulation and putting in a driveway rainwater collection system for irrigation and water management.¹⁶ Additionally, Gore installed a geothermal heating system.¹⁷ Gore also went to the trouble of replacing his incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs.¹⁸

Most famously, the Nobel laureate installed 33 solar panels in an attempt to offset a portion of his steep energy usage.¹⁹ According to 2011 data from the Nashville Electric Service, Gore's solar panels produce an average of 1,092 kWh of electricity per month. Unfortunately for the former vice president, his solar panels produce only 5.7% of the energy his home consumes.

Gore receives a credit of 12 cents per kWh of the solar energy he produces through NES' "Generation Partners" program.²⁰ NES records indicate Gore began receiving credits for producing solar power from his roof-mounted solar panels in March 2009.

During the course of a year, however, Gore's massive expanse of solar panels only produces enough electricity to offset his home energy use for less than 21 days.

amazing, articles 10 years apart with remarkable similarities but no one article agrees with the other on the facts. And almost every news story starts "exclusive"

[spookyturtle 9,465]

2 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Personally I wouldn't, but I believe there are a lot of people that would otherwise these guys would be rather popular spokespeople for this movement.

These guys are hypocrites. Personally I would do what I felt was right. If I felt I wanted to do my part in giving something up, I certainly wouldn't change my decision because these guys said one thing and did something else.