The Tennessee Center for Policy Research says today that Al Gore, who won an Academy Award last night for his film about global warming and the importance of energy conservation, uses 20 times the national average to power his Nashville mansion. What's more, his use has increased since the release of "An Inconvenient Truth". The Center says:
Gore’s mansion consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES). 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 kWh—more than 20 times the national average. Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling 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, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359. Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006. Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year … In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.
So I'm supposed to live like a raccoon while this tubby fuck drives a go-cart from room to room on his fabulous estate. These dirty god-damn hippies all tell me how awful America is and how great everyone else is, and we should all roll around in the mud like these third world nightmares whose number one export is alien like diseases, meanwhile he's flying back and forth to Caligula-like parties in Beverly Hills on his 20 million-dollar Gulfstream jet. I'm supposed to power my shower with a treadmill, but according to this editorial in the USA Today, Gore can't even be bothered to sign up for "earth friendly" power sources like wind energy, even though the utility companies that service his homes (he has three) in Tennessee and Washington DC offer it as an alternative. I think Ed Begley Jr. is a damn retard, but when he shakes his malnourished fingers at me and says we can all live "green", I at least know that he's speaking from experience, because he truly lives that life. Al Gore is not a scientist or an expert on weather and he's sure as hell not an environmentalist. He might as well tell me he's a Japanese super train that transforms into a tiger.
I’m neither Merriam or Webster, but I daresay this sausage of a man begins to border on the rain-slick precipice of hypocrisy..
I missed the movie… is that the inconvenient truth?
But come on - don’t forget ManBearPig!!!
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research is a front for right wing/anti-environment organizations and the ‘facts’ they cite are dubious at best. They say they’re ‘non-partisan’ but they only link to far-right and conservative groups.
The Tennessee tax department considers The Tennessee Center for Policy Research “not a legitimate organization” because they misrepresented themselves on questions about their opposition to a state crackdown on drug dealers.
The right wing noise machine is in full effect, whether any of this is true or not because they can’t stand the fact that they didn’t destroy him completely in 2000.
AND NOW, BACK TO THE TITTIES, PLEASE.
I love how this is going to get like 200 comments…I mean it just got put up and already…and oh yeah why do people believe in this global warming crap anyway? (Here we go…LMAO)
Vice President Gore
(Jack) Him wasting that kind of energy really isnt far fetched…the man has a big house…big houses take up more energy…and on that note I’d like some titties too…
Probably what happened is the raccoons broke into his mansion while he was away and left all the lights & appliances on while they raced around his hallways in the go-carts. You can laugh all you want but fucking raccoons are capable of anything and do shit like that all the time.
Uh-huh. A celebrity scandal site is moralizing about this, huh? Tell you what, go to journalism school, come back and explain how your verified this story with two credible sources, asked Gore for a response and then we’ll talk. Instead, you got your credentials off the back of a box of frosted flakes. Which isn’t even to mention, shithead, that you aren’t supposed to be conscious of this because of Al Gore told you to be. This isn’t about saving the earth. This is about saving your own ass, and if you can lift your Cheeto-encrusted fists off the keyboard long enough to look around, shit is beginning to hit the fan. So stop making excuses and stop acting indignant. Its one thing to make fun of celebrities who regularly exhibit stupidity. Its another to exhibit that same stupidity whilst making fun a celebrity. Oh wait… That’s the motherfuckin’ M.O. here.
aww… c’mon… give old Al a break… dude’s on a major comeback… plus he can totally laugh at himself… and he’s doing more for this planet than anybody reading this will ever do… :P
Oh GOD 10 posts in 12 minutes…keep em comin fellas…LMAO
I’d still rather see him as president than the coffee table we have now
why the fuck should humans even continue to exist? ask yourselves that? nothing we do or feel is worth two shakes of a lambs dick. i am sure someone will lie to themself and say otherwise. well actually i am wrong retards are truly beautiful people, if only we could all be retarded. or religous or fat
That’s why I come here. The insightful political commentary.
Seriously, Jack & mrme have said everything I want to say.
I’ll bet some conservative republican types hired the raccoons to break into Gore’s residence and run his power bills up to make it look like he did it. You can pay those little rascals off with uncooked hotdogs and Hostess fruit pies too, so it would be virtually impossible to trace it back to the GOP in the form of a paper trail.
ha global warming is for tools. why dontcha send some money to an organization.
–Gore has had a consistent position of purchasing carbon offsets to offset the family
– why the fuck should humans even continue to exist? — Finally, an intelligent and reasonable opinion on global warming. Why should humans continue to exist? I mean, other than the fact that I’m a fuckin’ human and don’t really want to die. thaddeus, you’re a genius. Humans should stop being such pussies and just drive steak knives through their hearts so that birds and butterflies can live in harmony with the lions and bears and spiders, just like they were before humans came and made them start fighting each other. Mother Gaea would want us to die.
the earth is changing and installing some solar panels to cut down on emissions or whatever gore talks about in his lameo movie will not prevent the world from going into its next stage of evolution whatever it may be.
next thing will be that crazy environmentalists will try to put forth a petition to save the sun from burning out in 10 billion years.
the issue here isn’t political. it’s about a typical hollywood celebrity who says one thing and acts in another way. so al gore IS a jackass.
He must be cooking meth cuz that’s a hell of a lot of energy. Maybe he’s selling the shit to fund global warming charities so he is really doing a good thing. I just hope all the meth I buy is genuine Tennessee Gore cuz then I’ll know I’m helping to save the earth.