Tennessee Center for Policy Research

I have said from the beginning that Gore was using Global Warming as a means to enrich his personal wealth. This proves it. 100 million since 2000 yet the democrats want to go after big oil? How about Gore windfall profits?

He produces nothing but lies, his overhead is his travel expenses where he flies around the world in a PRIVATE JET then to be picked up in a huge gas drinking SUV, then to stand in front of the world and tell us that we must buy into the lies he spins about something that cannot be proved we can do anything to stop.

Yet the dems want to attack big oil who are in the process of researching means of cleaner burning fuels and alternative energy but Gore is a hero to the dems/left when he offers no answers, no hope and no truth but is making huge profits selling nothing but grief. At least the oil companies are doing something to help the environment where Gore offers nothing but a "chicken little doomsday".

But even after being exposed for the liar and hypocrite he is, he does try to make his home more energy efficient. Then he goes on to prove he cares nothing about his so-called "commitment to the environment" because he increase's his use another 10% on top of the 20% he uses more than the avg household in America.

So when will you GWer's cultists going to see the writing on the wall that Gore has conned you out of your time, your money and your well placed and meaningful caring of the environment?

Gotta love Gore. Do as I say, not as I do or the planet is doomed!

Matt

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I like the idea of the Gore windfall tax!

You know, I dont buy into this GW crap but I do care about the environment. We recycle everything at my business and home. My route trucks all are up to date on all GA DOT regs and stay that way. When I built my house I put the more expensive energy efficient appliances throughout my house. I had tank-less water heater installed a couple of months ago. I have three rain barrels in my yard so I dont use city water to care for my plants and lawn. My wife has even traded in her SUV for a Nissan.

It seems I care for the environment more than Gore because at least I am trying not to leave a mark and clean up after myself unlike Gore.

This is for the GW'er cultists that will claim this is just another right wing attack on the caring, peace loving, mother earth champion Gore.

Come on guys, this is all just a sideshow to distract people from his original quest: the search for ManBearPig!!

.......seeing it sheds light onto the scam Gore and the GW'ers have been selling..............

The Communists have found their new home and means to destroy capitalism.

Environmentalism.

Any article that uses the phrase "global warming hysteria" shows itself with those words alone to be unworthy of taking seriously, but at least it did present some numbers. However, a little logic is worth applying here.

Note the disparity in time measurements, a year's use of electricity compared to a month's. Divide 232 by 12 so we're comparing apples to apples, and we find that Gore's house used a bit over 19 times the average household electricity use -- at first glance.

However, that is only true if we are comparing his house's annual use to an average house in an average-use part of the country in an average month of the year. If you pick a summer month in an area where most homes don't have air conditioning, energy use will be much lower than in the winter, by a factor of about 3-1. If that was what these guys did, then the "average" monthly expenditure would be about twice what the article suggested, meaning that Gore uses only a bit less than 10 times the national average, which could be fully accounted for by the fact that he is wealthy and probably lives in a big house.

Also, the fact that the article presented the statistics in a misleading format, together with that use of the words "global warming hysteria," shows that we cannot really trust it to have told the truth even allowing for the distortion. It would be a good thing, Lost Soul, if you would look for some supporting data from a more honest source.

So, just accepting all that at face value, there's no issue with Gore using more electricity my an order of magnitude than the average household, while simultaneously telling everyone else they must reduce consumption?

Doesn't that strike you as a bit, well, elitist and hypocritical?

Matt

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I didn't say anything about his energy consumption one way or the other. If he's using 10 times as much as the average person, then we would need to question what he's using it for, and look at the details of what he's doing to see if he could tighten up efficiency. I'm not in a position to do that, so I'm not prepared either to accuse or to defend him.

What I am in a position to do is to call the article Lost Soul quoted for its obvious distortions and misrepresentations, and thus show that it doesn't leave us any better informed than if we'd never read it, and that's what I've done.

Maybe you should take into account that the northeast and northwest who dont use AC in the summer use three times the amount of energy in the winter heating their homes. Those of us in the south (including Gore) dont usually turn on the heat until late Dec and its off by March.

Gore living in Tenn, his summers are late (june, where the rest of the south start in late april/early may) and winters mild compared to Northeast and west.

Any way you cut it, Gore in a hypocrite energy hog liberal who is telling everyone "do as I say, not as I do".

The problem here is that the article you quoted has demonstrated itself to be deceptive and untrustworthy, and so we really cannot trust anything it says. For that reason, we don't know that he's anything of the kind.

You really should have noticed that misleading year-to-month comparison yourself, Lost Soul, and that should have given you a red flag. I would hesitate to present evidence as flawed as this in support of any contention I wanted to make.

So because you don't have all the facts, which you admit, plus I have given examples how to justify how they measured Gore use against the rest of the country, you attack the source as bias against Gore? Typical to attack the source when you have nothing else. I believe Tennessee Center for Policy Research has professionals better adapted to access the statics of usage than you.

Even if they were only using Tenn usage compared to Gore, don't you think Gore should be leading by example? Wasn't he once a Senator for the state? Shouldn't he be a model for all Tennesseans if he is going to ask them to cut usage yet he doesn't see the need to cut his usage himself?

It has nothing to do with either my lack of "all the facts" or your reasoning. It's simply that, by comparing what it claims is Gore's annual electricity usage, to what it claims is the monthly use of the average American household, the article calls its honesty into question. If they had compared Gore's annual to the average annual usage, I would not react this way, but it's obvious that doing this would only have given them a 19-to-1 figure (even if their statistics are accurate) instead of more than 200-to-1. That figure was sufficiently misleading to be called an outright lie.

Given that, I cannot accept the figures provided, even corrected for the deception, without backup from a more honest source. It's that simple.

So if it doesnt come from some GW site, which will by all means come to Gore rescue like you have, it isn't a reliable source. You take issue which this source because of the words they choose out Gore with.

So we will use the facts.

U.S. Household Energy Consumption:
The amount of carbon dioxide (CO²) emitted from a power plant generating enough electricity for the average American home for one year is nearly twice the amount of CO² generated by the average family car in a year.

Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.

U.S. Household Energy Consumption

And you call people partisan hacks? I have yet to see you where you didnt champion a liberal cause. You're just, if not more so, as partisan as anyone else here no matter what side.