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Skriven 2007-03-02 13:46:41 av Roy Witt (1:123/789.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Bob Klahn
Ärende: It's finally official, Go
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"Bob Klahn -> Roy Witt" <1:275/311> wrote in message
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 DC>>> The final tally is in.  Al Gore won!

 DC>>> Of course it's only the Academy Award, but it does put him in good
 DC>>> position should a strong candidate not come to the front by October.

 RW>> POWER: GORE MANSION USES 20X AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD; CONSUMPTION
 RW>> INCREASE AFTER 'TRUTH'

 RW>> Mon Feb 26 2007 17:16:14 ET

 RW>> The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent,
 RW>> nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed
 RW>> to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through
 RW>> free market policy solutions, issued a press release late
 RW>> Monday:

 BK>   Which is instantly *NOT* non-partisan. Further web research
 BK>   shows it's a phoney operation. I has maybe two employees. It has
 BK>   a budget in which entertainment is an infinitely larger portion
 BK>   than research, as research has zero budget. Oh, and it's federal
 BK>   reporting seems to be deficient. Though that may just be because
 BK>   it has so little to report. The president is from the American
 BK>   Enterprise Institute.

Staff

      Kellie Garretson Administrative Assistant
      Drew Johnson President
      Trent Seibert Director of Government Accountability
      Nicole Williams  Vice President of Operations
      Douglas Kurdziel  Research Fellow
      Trapper Michael Research Fellow
      Daniel Phillips Research Fellow
      Troy Senik  Research Fellow
      Luci Stephens Research Fellow

Scholars

      Dale Bails, PhD Christian Brothers University
      Robert Berry, MD PATMOS EmergiClinic
      J.C. Bowman, PhD Florida State University
      J.R. Clark, PhD University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
      Larry M. Hall, PhD Belmont University
      Martin D. Kennedy, PhD  Middle Tennessee State University
      Sally Kilgore, PhD Modern Red Schoolhouse Institute
      Shaka L.A. Mitchell, JD  Institute for Justice
      John Stone, PhD Education Consumers Clearinghouse
      Amy H. Sturgis, PhD Belmont University
      Charles Van Eaton, PhD Bryan College
      Marilyn Young, PhD Belmont University


 RW>> Gore's mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] located in the
 RW>> posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more
 RW>> electricity every month than the average American household
 RW>> uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric
 RW>> Service (NES).

 BK>   The only way a house that *small* could use that much more
 BK>   electricity is if he's running a business out of it. And maybe
 BK>   also using electric heat. All electric.

Considering that the average Tennesee household is probably 5 rooms with 1 1/2
baths or less and Gore's is 20 rooms w/8 baths, that would mean that his
'small'
house uses 4 times the amount of energy of the 5 room house.  Depending of
course on the actual square footage of both examples.

 BK>   Nope, also gas. So someone explain how it's even possible to
 BK>   have a house using that much electricity if it's not also a
 BK>   business.

Burn a 100 watt lamp in every room, 24/7...that'd still be 4 times as many
watts
as a 5 room house.

 RW>> In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on
 RW>> Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity
 RW>> consumption at home.

 BK>   Need to do it in the workplace also, but it will still use more.

 RW>> The average household in America consumes 10,656
 RW>> kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department
 RW>> of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh-more
 RW>> than 20 times the national average.

 BK>   Ok, ya got him. He's refining uranium in the basement to produce
 BK>   a green nuke.

Heh heh heh...that's even more of a ratio than I had figured, above. Gore 21,
Average 1 ... Heh heh heh...

 RW>> Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh-guzzling
 RW>> more than twice the electricity in one month than an
 RW>> average American family uses in an entire year.
 RW>> As a result of his energy consumption, Gore's average
 RW>> monthly electric bill topped $1,359.

 BK>   Now what I find interesting is that his bill is so low for such
 BK>   high consumption.

Maybe you're being over charged for yours. -- considering that my electric bill
averages less than $135/month, his is 10 times higher than my 5 room house.
Which says that I use a lot of juice too, since the average ratio above was
21:1...

 RW>> Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore's energy
 RW>> consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per
 RW>> month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.

 BK>   Average of 18.4K? Ya mean the 22K isn't the average?

You don't read and comprehend very well do you. 22k was for one month, August
of
2006.

 RW>> Gore's extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric
 RW>> bill.

 RW>> Natural gas bills for Gore's mansion and guest house
 RW>> averaged $1,080 per month last year.

 BK>   Which is appropriate for maybe 10 times the average. But that's
 BK>   two houses.

Add that to the average electric bill and, well, you know.


 RW>> "As the spokesman of choice for the global warming
 RW>> movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk the walk, not
 RW>> just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use," said
 RW>> Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.
 RW>> In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity
 RW>> and natural gas

 BK>   Unlike Cheney who's govt paid electric bill was maybe 5 times
 BK>   that much.

Source?

 RW>> bills
 RW>> for his Nashville estate in 2006.

 RW>> For Further Information, Contact:

 RW>> Nicole Williams, (615) 383-6431

 BK>   If I do will she tell me the truth about how that is even
 BK>   possible?

Reading comprehension and simple deduction isn't your strong suit, is it.

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