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Al Gores Personal Energy Use Is His Own Inconvenient Truth
Gores home uses more than 20 times the national average
Last night, Al Gores 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.
Gores 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 kWhmore than 20 times the national average.
Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWhguzzling 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, Gores average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.
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I'm putting this in politics, while I've yet to find their agenda, there must be one. This is too good to ignore however:
http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367
I'm putting this in politics, while I've yet to find their agenda, there must be one. This is too good to ignore however:
http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367
so.... let's glorify people who post personal and private information about citizens in the press - AND REPOST IT! - as long as it suits OUR political agenda?
How droll.
What could be next? hidden camera telefoto lens videos of the Bush's having nasty butt sex? Maybe we could post the names of the presciption medications YOU are taking? That would be appropriate too.
I work for the power industry and customer usage data is confidential information, Methinks this is bullshit, but regardless, it is really tacky.
So you are cool with the likes of Gore, Streisand, etc. bitching to us about global warming while they spend this much on lighting, heating, private jets, limos, etc.? Oh my, MM, your politics are hypocritical if that is the case.
I at least admitted that there might be an agenda within the post. You don't even bother.
are you okay with me posting private and confidential information about anyone with whom I disagree politically?
Al Gore chose over 30 years ago to be a public figure. You know the answer to the rest, as I came to the defense of private information before.
If what had been posted about you was your service to the UN, which had been reported in other venues, the poster would not have been banned.
There is a difference between outing Al Gore's electric bill, when he won an Oscar for denigrating waste and Maineman's employment as a civilian, retired from the military. Get it?
I don't think that anyone's electric bill should be public knowledge...just like I don't think that anyone's medical history should be public knowledge or their credit history or anything else that is considered confidential.
and don't think for a moment that I do not sincerely appreciate your actions on behalf of MY privacy..... is Al Gore not due the same?
Like I said.... I doubt the accuracy and validity of this report in any case... any electric company employee who gave out that information just lost their job and the electric company is open to a law suit...it smells funny to me.
Actually as ugly as it may be, 'public figure' means just that, to the media. Ask anyone at FOX, CBS, NBC, Whitehouse, etc. Just be glad you are not in that. Gore is, with his book, movie, and possible candidacy.
In my industry, the fact that someone is a "public figure" does not make their usage data any less confidential. that's a fact.
Well obviously not by that electric company. Not a thing to be done about that. With that said, you haven't a problem with his usage vs. messages to the 'rest of us peons?'
I don't think that anyone's electric bill should be public knowledge...just like I don't think that anyone's medical history should be public knowledge or their credit history or anything else that is considered confidential.
and don't think for a moment that I do not sincerely appreciate your actions on behalf of MY privacy..... is Al Gore not due the same?
Like I said.... I doubt the accuracy and validity of this report in any case... any electric company employee who gave out that information just lost their job and the electric company is open to a law suit...it smells funny to me.
I am not convinced the data is reliable and I know that every electric company operates under the same rules...it comes with being federally regulated.
How incredibly pathetic of you m&m. He is caught, admit it, he is a hypocrite and a seriously deranged elitist snob. He needs to come out and apoligize for being such a disingenuous lying fat boy. You should be a defense lawyer because you have absolutely no scrupples, you defend the lowest forms of life as well as vote for them. Maroon.
You are now sounding like Bully, or RSR, unable to face the truth. Oh well, onto another topic.
no.... if Gore uses more electricity than I do, does that mean his message is any less valid?
And if I chose to doubt the fact that a regulated public utility would violate customer confidentiality regulations, that does not make me like RSR... I find that to be profoundly insulting.
I have no doubt that you use more than average, just an educated guess by what you've posted regarding income. However, Al Gore is speaking to 'America', right? Most of us have less. But we are to cut back? What about him, you, and the rest of the 'do gooders', hypocrits?
