Subject:Tale of two houses...
CHECK THESE TWO HOUSES OUT AND THEN READ BELOW.
House #1A 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated bynatural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. per month. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" area. It'sintheSouth.==================================================
House
#2Designed
by an architecture professor at a leading national
university. This house incorporates ev ery "green" feature
current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000
square feet ( 4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie
in the American southwest. A central closet in the
households geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water
through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.The water
(usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter and
cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels
such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter
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. The collected water then
irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding
flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property
to blend into the surrounding rural landscape. ~~~~~
HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; it is the abode of theNobel Prize winning (what a joke!)"environmentalist " Al Gore.
HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford,Texas;it is the residence of the President of the United States,George W. Bush.An "inconvenient truth." I sure hope this gets passed to everyone! And, yes ... I DID check Snopes prior to forwarding it.
You can verify it at :http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush /house.asp