Soon after Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" won Best Documentary at
last week's Academy Awards, shocking news broke.
According to a press release by the non-partisan Tennessee Center For
Policy Research, "Gore's mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area
of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average
American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville
Electric Service (NES)."
http://tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367
Within hours of their press release, the story was being hurled across
the conservative blogosphere, from Instapundit, to WorldNutDaily, to
Drudge, and eventually into the mainstream media at ABC News.
But of course, the Gore-smearers were hiding some "inconvenient
truths" of their own.
According to the Tennessean:
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070227/NEWS01/702270382
Gore purchased 108 blocks of "green power" for each of the past three
months, according to a summary of the bills.
That's a total of $432 a month Gore paid extra for solar or other
renewable energy sources.
The green power Gore purchased in those three months is equivalent to
recycling 2.48 million aluminum cans or 286,092 pounds of newspaper,
according to comparison figures on NES' Web site.
(snip)
"Every family has a different carbon footprint," said Kalee Krider, a
spokeswoman for Gore.
The Gores' 10,000-square-foot house on Lynnwood Boulevard has a large
one.
The Green Power Switch program isn't all that Gore and his wife,
Tipper, are doing, Krider said.
They use compact fluorescent light bulbs and are in the midst of a
renovation project that includes having solar panels installed on
their home to reduce fossil fuel consumption, she said.
Their car?
A Lexis hybrid SUV.
"They, of course, also do the carbon emissions offset," she said.
That means figuring out how much carbon is emitted from home power
use, and vehicle and plane travel, then paying for projects that will
offset that with use of renewable energy, such as solar power.
But never mind all that.
Al Gore is a hypocrite!
Did you know he once said he invented the Internet?
And co-wrote "Love Story" with James Lee Witt of FEMA?
Meanwhile, Drew Johnson, the president of the Tenessee Center For
Policy Research, told the Tennessean that he "doesn't differ much from
Al Gore on his environmental concerns."
He said, "We went into this just asking the question, 'Is the leader
of the environmental movement basically living up to his word?' Given
that he's a Tennessean, I thought it's a question we should ask."
Sounds innocent enough... although the bloggers at Seeing The Forest
noted last week that the Tennesse Center For Policy Research is a
mysterious organ indeed. http://www.seeingtheforest.com/
A review of their IRS forms indicate that they have no officers,
directors or trustees, and are run out of a P.O. Box.
http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2007/03/the_al_gore_lie.htm#more
Their "non-partisan" website gets no traffic and only links to
conservative organizations.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson-and-james-boyce/a-far-too-convenient-mea_b_42171.html
But hey, I'm sure the folks at the so-called Tennessee Center For
Policy Research are a trustworthy bunch who have real environmental
concerns and no ulterior motives whatsoever.
By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
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