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LOL@Al Gore

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Originally posted by: bonkers325
according to snopes, himself and Tipper work from said house. so that yearly energy consumption is comprised of both at-home and at-work usage. so he uses 1776 kWh per month. thats probably only $200 or so in electric bills every month 😛
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uh, that wasn't according to Snopes, that was according to a spokesperson for the Gore family.
 
I love how you libs are focusing on one stat and ignoring the real story here - Gore uses more energy now than he did prior to his retrofitting AND his retrofitting was ONLY after being called out by a watchdog group.

If the artical stated he uses as much electricity as 20 average homes on an annual basis would that have satisfied you?
 
no different than Angelina Jolie. She cares so much about the starving kids, yet she has 3 multi million dollar homes ( I think one is actually in a starving country) and spends money like no other.

Get used to it. The world is full of hypocrits. People who just get by are the ones who will always make the difference.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Doodoo
The average person also doesn't do the typical things Al Gore does out of his home. I'm not saying it's right, but to compare him to the average household is unfair. And who's to say that after he installed all of the new equipment that he didn't move more things to his home for work reasons.
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You have really got to be kidding me. I'm super cereal.

To compare him to the average household is completely fair. Because the fact remains that if he would share his work related energy consumption with others he would be more efficient and use less.

But he doesn't. Do as I say, not as I do.
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You're missing the point... The article does not touch on what is produced by all that electricity. It also doesn't touch on how much electricity/energy would be used by separate offices, studios and the travel between them etc. I'd hazard a guess that overall he is saving energy compared to he & his wife having separate offices outside the home.

Yes his mansion/office uses a lot of electricity, but its not an "average home" by any stretch of the imagination. Its a huge house and a small office rolled into one. Electricity used per sq-ft, by function would be a far more relevant metric but of course that kind of thing is too difficult for a sensationalist article to delve into.

As for your comment about sharing work-related energy consumption... How can you share your private office/studio's energy consumption with anyone else but your own employees? The same ones who now work out of your mansion and are therefore still sharing the energy consumption...
 
Originally posted by: ShockwaveVT
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Doodoo
The average person also doesn't do the typical things Al Gore does out of his home. I'm not saying it's right, but to compare him to the average household is unfair. And who's to say that after he installed all of the new equipment that he didn't move more things to his home for work reasons.
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You have really got to be kidding me. I'm super cereal.

To compare him to the average household is completely fair. Because the fact remains that if he would share his work related energy consumption with others he would be more efficient and use less.

But he doesn't. Do as I say, not as I do.
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You're missing the point... The article does not touch on what is produced by all that electricity. It also doesn't touch on how much electricity/energy would be used by separate offices, studios and the travel between them etc. I'd hazard a guess that overall he is saving energy compared to he & his wife having separate offices outside the home.

Yes his mansion/office uses a lot of electricity, but its not an "average home" by any stretch of the imagination. Its a huge house and a small office rolled into one. Electricity used per sq-ft, by function would be a far more relevant metric but of course that kind of thing is too difficult for a sensationalist article to delve into.

As for your comment about sharing work-related energy consumption... How can you share your private office/studio's energy consumption with anyone else but your own employees? The same ones who now work out of your mansion and are therefore still sharing the energy consumption...
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I'm going to take a wild guess and say that his heated pool consumes more energy than his home office.
 
I am sure that this "watchdog group" is nothing more than the barking dog of a hard right/republican attack. Yes, they portrayed the figures to be more dramatic and not at all comparative.

Reading briefly through all these comments I didn't see any comments about the "average" area homes. Doesn't he live in Tennessee? Don't think only use electricity to power their single wide (if that)?

😛
 
I don't like how they twist the wording.

Gore's energy for the past year could power 232 homes for a month.

That means 232/12 = 19

Would have been better to say:

"Gore's energy consumption for one home could power 19 homes"

Still bad, but 232 = scary and deceiving I think.
 
Originally posted by: bonkers325
according to snopes, himself and Tipper work from said house. so that yearly energy consumption is comprised of both at-home and at-work usage. so he uses 1776 kWh per month. thats probably only $200 or so in electric bills every month 😛
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Yep, this is nothing more than another sensationalized story because it doesn't give the reader all facts.

 
Originally posted by: rudder
It's the grow lights he has running in the basement.
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I thought it had something to do with the plethora of 30" displays he has sitting around watching Drudge Report. :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: mjuszczak
I don't like how they twist the wording.

Gore's energy for the past year could power 232 homes for a month.

That means 232/12 = 19

Would have been better to say:

"Gore's energy consumption for one home could power 19 homes"

Still bad, but 232 = scary and deceiving I think.
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Wow, that wasn't discussed anywhere up above.
 
Originally posted by: Argo
Energy Guzzled by Al Gore?s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a Month
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What an ass-backwards comparison. They're comparing energy used by Al Gore for 1 year to energy used by average us home for 1 month. Why not say that:

Energy used by Al Gore in past year could power 20 us homes?
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Winner winner chicken dinner
 
Originally posted by: Pabster
Originally posted by: rudder
It's the grow lights he has running in the basement.
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I thought it had something to do with the plethora of 30" displays he has sitting around watching Drudge Report. :laugh:
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ZING!

No matter what the fact remains after all his conservation efforts after being called out for his hypocrisy he uses more. You can't explain that simple fact away. It's fact.
 
Originally posted by: halik
In related news, the power used in halik's home in the past decade could power the whole world for 10 seconds! :roll:
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there is no way... maybe .0005 second.
 
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