House #1
>A 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated by natural gas.
>Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated
>by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the
>average American household does in a year. The average bill for
>electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. per month. In
>natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the
>national average for an American ho me. This house is not situated in a
>Northern or Midwestern 'snow belt' area. It's in the South.
>
>House #2
>Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university.
>This house incorporates every 'green' feature current home construction
>can provide. The house
>is 4,000 square feet ( 4 bedrooms ) and is nestled on a high prairie in
>the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal
>heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the
>ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter
>and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil
>or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a
>conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is
>collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern.
>Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground
>purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then
>irrigates the land surrounding the house Surrounding flowers and shrubs
>native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding
>rural landscape.
>
>~~~~~
>HOUSE #1 is outside
>of Nashville , Tennessee ; it is the abode of the 'environmentalist' Al
>Gore.
>
>HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near
> Crawford , Texas ; it is the personal residence of the President of the
> United States , George W. Bush.
>
>What an 'inconvenient truth'.
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