A Tale of Two Houses
Digg front page item links to a report from the Tennessee Center for Policy Research that I heard yesterday on right wing talk radio saying Al Gore’s energy usage is up 10% even after installing a token solar panel and geothermal pump.
As one commenter at Digg noticed, TCPR’s headline unfairly compares Gore’s annual usage to the average household’s monthly usage and Gore also uses his mansion as an office. But the truth of the matter still stinks.
Another Digg commenter recalled a Snopes write-up of a popular right wing political email that often gets forwarded. It describes George Bush’s Crawford, Texas “Western White House” as an exemplar of green architecture on every level compared to Al Gore’s ever more energy wasteful mansion.
Cindy Sheehan said “Bush’s Prairie Chapel Ranch (formerly Ken Engelbrecht’s hog farm)” was hard to approach for some mysterious reason.
Sadly, outrageously, Snopes, a site dedicated to debunking popular myths, says that the “Bush house is much more green than the Gore mansion” message is actually “TRUE.”
