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Don't throw stones at Al Gore's house
http://www.startribune.com/357/story/1031848.html
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Gore, by the way, offsets his fossil-fuel use by paying extra for renewable energy credits.
This was ignored by the talk-radio goobers, but the idea is simple: For a small extra charge, pennies per kilowatt hour, you can "buy" renewable energy credits from your energy company, which uses the money (it is carefully audited) to buy that amount of nonpolluting power (such as wind energy) for its system rather than building more power plants. Result: Your power lines may still deliver fossil power to your house, but you are making the power company buy additional, nonpolluting green energy for its grid.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8NIPQFO0.htm
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"We wanted to see if he was living by his own recommendations and walking the walk," said think tank president Drew Johnson.
Utility records show the Gore family paid an average monthly electric bill of about $1,200 last year for its 10,000-square-foot home.
The Gores used about 191,000 kilowatt hours in 2006, according to bills reviewed by The Associated Press. The typical Nashville household uses about 15,600 kilowatt-hours per year.
The group said that Gore used nearly 221,000 kilowatt hours last year and that his average monthly electric bill was $1,359. Johnson said his group got its figures from Nashville Electric Service.
But company spokeswoman Laurie Parker said the utility never got a request from the policy center and never gave it any information.
Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said: "Sometimes when people don't like the message, in this case that global warming is real, it's convenient to attack the messenger."
Kreider said Gore purchases enough energy from renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and methane gas to balance 100 percent of his electricity costs.
Gore, who owns homes in Carthage, Tenn., and in the Washington area, has said he leads a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." To balance out other carbon emissions, the Gores invest money in projects to reduce energy consumption, Kreider said.
My comment: I wonder if this obscure right wing thing tank never heard of before got and influx of money from opponents to the good work of a good
Christian man.
Then the right wing noise machine financed by big oil and their minions took it as gospel ...shame on them. The swiftboaters tactics are clear it goes back to Nazi Germany and Josef Goebbels ..how can we tell a half lie a half truth and manipulate it by repeating it and shocking it to the medias system to get an emotional response onward to an emotional roller coaster.
but the good news is I strongly believe Christians will be fair and see all sides and not take the bait of Propaganda and its tactics.
but first: