February 27, 2007
Back home in Tennessee, safely ensconced in his suburban Nashville home, Vice President Al Gore is no doubt basking in the Oscar awarded to "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary he inspired and in which he starred. But a local free-market think tank is trying to make that very home emblematic of what it deems Gore's environmental hypocrisy.I'm sure the former Veep offsets his family's blatant greedy piggishness with a healthy contribution to terraspass, or perhaps he'll sign up for my own alternative Green program.Armed with Gore's utility bills for the last two years, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged Monday that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president's 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.
"If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility bills, I wouldn't care," says the Center's 27-year-old president, Drew Johnson. "But he tells other people how to live and he's not following his own rules."
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Posted by: Dick at February 27, 2007 12:43 PM (XlQVK)
Calling someone a "neon green" seems to fit, but doesn't sound so insulting or derogatory. What about "puke green," referring to their green words but lavish lifestyle (puke = opulence, self-gratification, and over indulgence)?
"If you want us to conserve energy, why don't YOU drive a hybrid? Or are you just a 'neon green,' sending the children of the poor to toil under the low light of energy saving bulbs and to risk their lives driving unsafe compact cars, while you and your rich buddies drive your SUVs and..."
Wow, that's a really lame argument (just like 'chickenhawk'). But I'm sure someone can come up with something better.
Posted by: wooga at February 27, 2007 02:27 PM (t9sT5)
“The Bush family has installed a 25,000- gallon
rainwater cistern for irrigation and planted native plants.
The President is also busy removing invasive trees. The family’s
geothermal heating and cooling system sends water 300 feet
into the ground to keep it at a constant 67 degree. The system
uses 75 percent less electricity than traditional heating
and air-conditioning systems, and it heats the outdoor pool
so efficiently that the Bushes shelved their plans to install
solar panels,†he said. The Bush ranch also features
passive solar heating and cooling, daylighting and enhanced
insulation."
http://www.solartoday.org/2003/may_june03/solar_wh.htm
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at February 27, 2007 02:36 PM (ETghS)
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=5072659
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Posted by: Michael Weaver at February 27, 2007 05:23 PM (2OHpj)
"Chicken little" covers the paranoia and screaming issues, but doesn't hit on the hypocrisy. For a moral relativist, there is no sin other than hypocrisy. For the moral relativist segment of the environmentalists, the 'chicken little' label doesn't sting.
Posted by: wooga at February 27, 2007 08:43 PM (t9sT5)
Posted by: Michael Weaver at February 28, 2007 05:36 AM (2OHpj)
USA, all the way!Posted by: Michael Weaver at February 28, 2007 05:37 AM (2OHpj)
We should have a thread dedicated to finding a term that fits these idiot alarmists. USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at February 28, 2007 05:39 AM (2OHpj)
Posted by: sandpiper at February 28, 2007 10:52 AM (4pkrX)
The right wing hate machine knows one thing and they know it with absolute certainty - conservatives never require proof. All they require is opinion that conforms to their beliefs. That opinion can (and usually does) consist of nothing more than lies and half-truths but that's good enough for conservatives.
Just a few short months ago Exxon said global warming was a farce. Today, Exxon says it's real. Even the company that financed all the fake science trying to disprove global warming now admits it was lying its butt off.
Yet, the faithful still believe they are right. Based on what fact? They don't require facts. They're told to hate Al Gore and they dutifully obey. And now they have a new set of fake facts to back them up.
Anyone see any WMD lately? It's the same baseless crap and you guys fall for it every time.
Posted by: zzpat at February 28, 2007 04:02 PM (zbHRv)
attention from your hypocrisy by bringing up WMD's, which simply
smashes any possibility of anyone refuting you because you didn't say
anything. That pretty much makes you not only a hypocrite, but also a
coward and a liar, because if you had a real, valid argument, you'd use
it, and not hide behind a strawman, but then, you're a lefturd, and
it's to be expected. I hope we can meet someday soon.
Posted by: Improbulus Akhbar at February 28, 2007 09:52 PM (eGb9y)
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