Enviro-Elitist Gore Energy Consumption INCREASES

While flying around the world in his private jet, telling us all how we should curb our energy usage, Al Gore’s house in Nashville has increased its energy usage by 10%. And it was already extremely high:

“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”

In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.

In February 2007, An Inconvenient Truth, a film based on a climate change speech developed by Gore, won an Academy Award for best documentary feature. The next day, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research uncovered that Gore’s Nashville home guzzled 20 times more electricity than the average American household.

After the Tennessee Center for Policy Research exposed Gore’s massive home energy use, the former Vice President scurried to make his home more energy-efficient. Despite adding solar panels, installing a geothermal system, replacing existing light bulbs with more efficient models, and overhauling the home’s windows and ductwork, Gore now consumes more electricity than before the “green” overhaul.

Since taking steps to make his home more environmentally-friendly last June, Gore devours an average of 17,768 kWh per month –1,638 kWh more energy per month than before the renovations – at a cost of $16,533. By comparison, the average American household consumes 11,040 kWh in an entire year, according to the Energy Information Administration.

But, but, but he buys carbon credits, so he can use as much energy as he wants! At least that is what the disciples will tell you. See, if you can afford to pay for your indulgences, you can waste as much energy as you want. Now, those poor people who can’t afford to buy carbon credits, well, you just have to suffer.

But not the Goracle. He takes the millions he makes shilling for Big Green and lives like he wants, all the while pumping more propaganda out of the Church of Global Warming.™ If this clown really believed what he was telling us, that the climate was really in danger of heating up to the point that life was in danger, wouldn’t he set the example for other to follow? How many liberals out there rail against the Catholic priests that molest children, siting the clear hypocrisy, yet defend the Goracle and his behavior?

Like Glenn Reynolds said, “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who say it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”