EXCLUSIVE: Al Gore's Home Devours 34 Times More Electricity Than Average U.S. Household
Posted By Drew Johnson On 10:39 AM 08/02/2017
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/02/ex...u-s-household/
On Friday, Al Gore's sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth" – "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" – arrives in movie theaters across the country.
But there's another inconvenient sequel worth noting and, like most sequels, this one is even worse than the original.
Gore's hypocritical home energy use and "do as I say not as I do" lifestyle has
plunged to embarrassing new depths.
In just this past year, Gore burned through enough energy to
power the typical American household for more than 21 years, according to a new report by the National Center for Public Policy Research. The former vice president consumed 230,889 kilowatt hours (kWh) at his Nashville residence, which includes his home, pool and driveway entry gate electricity meters. A typical family uses an average of 10,812 kWh of electricity per year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
It gets worse.
Last September alone, Gore devoured 30,993 kWh of electricity.
That's enough to power 34 average American homes for a month. Over the last
12 months,
Gore used more electricity just heating his outdoor swimming pool than six typical homes use in a year....
...Not counting the $432 a month Gore spends on his Green Power Switch indulgences, the green extremist shells out about $22,000 a year to pay his electric bills.
Spending more than $1,800 a month on an energy bill would sink most Americans, but it's
pocket change to Gore. He has manipulated environmental concerns into a big business.
When his term as vice president ended in 2001, Gore's net worth was less than $2 million. Today, Gore is worth an estimated $300 million.
Gore apologists argue that his large home is the reason for his massive energy consumption.
That's not true, either.
According to Energy Vanguard, a company devoted to making homes more energy efficient, a residence that uses less than 10 kWh of electricity per square foot each year is considered "efficient." Homes that gulp down more than 20 kWh of electricity per square foot each year are labeled "energy hogs." Gore's house consumed 22.9 kWh per square foot in the past 12 months
making him a huge energy hog by any measure.
Astonishingly, Gore also owns at least two other homes – a penthouse in San Francisco and a farmhouse in Carthage, Tennessee – so his carbon footprint is even larger than it appears.
The former veep has become a prophet of environmentalism, a religion he helped create. But he is a false prophet. He appears to exploit his followers for recognition and money, and it's unclear whether he actually believes a word he says.
Al Gore is happy to talk the talk, but has proven completely unwilling to walk the walk when it comes to living a green lifestyle –
and that should make every person question the messenger as well as the message.