Al Gore is living proof that if you scream loud enough about an issue that media have latched onto – in this case, climate change – you can become immensely wealthy.
Apparently he thinks this insulates his own energy habits from scrutiny.
It doesn’t.
From Drew Johnson’s article at dailycaller.com:
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.
In 2007, the day after Gore won an Academy Award for “An Inconvenient Truth,” I revealed Gore’s hypocritically high electric bills. In some months, I discovered, his residence gobbled up to 20 times more electricity than the average American household.
When Gore’s inconvenient truth became public knowledge, he promised to change his ways and gave his property a green makeover. Gore added 33 solar panels at a princely price tag of approximately $60,000. He also upgraded the home’s windows and ductwork, replaced the insulation, put in a driveway rainwater collection system, and installed a geothermal heating system.
But the home’s green facelift wasn’t enough to offset Gore’s colossal energy consumption.
Despite spending more than a quarter-million dollars on making his home more environmentally friendly, his energy consumption is higher than ever.
Gore even told the “TODAY Show” that his home uses 100 percent renewable energy, but that is an outright lie.
Just because Gore donates to the Green Power Switch program doesn’t mean he receives green energy at his home. Gore gets the same electricity every other Nashville resident receives – 87 percent of which comes from nuclear, coal and natural gas power plants. About 10 percent of Gore’s electricity comes from the TVA’s environmentally devastating dams. Only a puny 3 percent comes from renewable sources such as solar and wind.
I wonder how many times a year Gore flies in a private jet as well.
The classic “do as I say, not as I do” pitchman. And is it ever working out for him.
My wife and I have seen the trailer for Gore’s new movie. Its most striking part is when they show footage of him warning that if we don’t change our ways, the world trade center site will wind up under water – followed by footage of the world trade center site flooding.
The problem? The world trade center site flooded because of Hurricane Sandy. An individual event. It never flooded before, and it has never flooded since. In other words, this had exactly nothing whatsoever to do with global warming, climate change, or whatever terminology Gore is using this week.
The title of this blog is “An Inconvenient hypocritical loudmouth”.
Any doubt about why?
