Saturday, March 31, 2007

GLOBAL WARMING QUIZ NIGHT

LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST.

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 ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern "snow belt" either. 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 contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps which draw ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the 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. Thecollected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.

HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as "the Texas White House," it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

3 Comments:

Blogger Anne of The House said...

Amazing! Let me pick my jaw off the desk!Who could've imagined such...such hypocricy! And from the country's leading Ecologist and Environmental Advocate! (I knew there was something fishy about him!) Its an outrage! We ought to report this to someone...does Hillary know about this??

6:34 AM  
Blogger Shiloh Guy said...

Anne, you have an excellent point! Perhaps we should ask our friend Yak to check it out with her? I hear he is actually campaigning for her out in the Great Northwest so he must have some kind of an in with her. Something has to be done! This outrage must be stopped!

7:23 AM  
Blogger Yakimaniac said...

My favorite candidate has but two abodes - a townhouse in Georgetown and a modest mansion in Chapaqua, NY. Both are older homes but the Clintons have made extensive use of carbon offsets. They have sent some of their staff members to live in cardboard boxes in Harlem.

Works for me. Vote for Hillary!

1:24 PM  

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