In Case you Missed It.

Hey folks,

AS you know I took yesterday off. ANY TIME I take time off from the OPN, something happens. Yesterday was no exception. I spent a lot of time in my vehicle and, in turn, I spent a lot of time listening to talk radio. It was all over the news both local, and the big ones. The biggest, Rush Limbaugh make a very good statement. More on that in a few.

But the big news comes from the Tennessee Public Policy Center. According to them, Al Gore, Mr. Global Warming himself, is one of the biggest violators. Accord to the TCPR website,

Nashville Electric Service/Gore House
2006

High 22619 kWh Aug – Sept Low 12541 kWh Jan - FebAverage: 18,414 kWh per month
2005

High 20532 Sept - OctoberLow 12955 Feb - MarchAverage: 16,200 kWh per month
Bill amounts

2006 – $895.60 (low) $1738.52 (high) $1359 (average)2005 – $853.91 (low) $1461 (high)
Nashville Gas Company

Main House2006 – $990(high) $170 (low) $536 (average)2005 – $1080 (high) $200 (low) $640 (average)

Guest House/Pool House
2006 – $820 (high) $70 (low) $544 (average)2005 – $1025 (high) $25 (low) $525 (average)

According to them,

Gore’s mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] 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).

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

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

Do the math here. That would be as much as 20 regular homes for the year. 20. You know, the 20 that he is telling it’s THEIR fault that the world is going to end. It is THEIR {your} arrogance and ignorance that is causing the havoc that is ravishing the world toward utter destruction.

But Al?

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

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

STOP!!! Hold on a second. Since this stupid, fact-less, although Oscar winning, Sci-fi movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," where he tells YOU to down size your life, has come out, he has INCREASED he usage and out put. In one month more than an average household in one YEAR?

"As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use," said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.

Or else, Al Gore KNOWS this is nothing but bunk. But he is making millions and getting the fame he would have NEVER gotten without it.

Then you have Rush, that pointed this out yesterday on his show.

During the singing of Gore's song that accompanied the movie at the Oscars on Sunday night, Melissa Etheridge was up there warbling away with one of the most depressing songs nominated all night, and they've got this stupid stuff in the background on this giant screen: "Take mass transit as often as you can" and light rail as often as you can. "Calculate your carbon footprint," all this sort of stuff. The whole point here is to downsize the American lifestyle, to blame America for all of these so-called climate crises, problems, global warming or what have you. The hypocrisy here is that Gore is not doing that. He's not reducing his footprint. He's making excuses for having a large one. Everybody else is supposed to reduce theirs. The bottom line here of all of this is that the ultimate aim of the global warming religion followers is to make sure that the United States gets the bulk of the blame, and the fix for this is going to be you and I surrendering more of our liberty and our freedom and paying larger taxes to "fix" this disaster that we have supposedly caused, and empowering an ever larger and larger government to make regulations over how we can live.

The reason Gore is in trouble on this is because he's not reducing his carbon footprint. He's going out and using his wealth and buying other people's unused footprint to allow him to have this big gigantic one. I have no problem if he wants to build a mansion that large -- and he wants to pay for the electricity and the gas to run it, fine! I have no problem with it. You have a big house; you want to use energy to heat it and cool it, and you buy it and you pay for it. I have no problem, because it's not destroying the planet. Algore's perfectly fine doing all of that on his own, but his plan involves you reducing your consumption because you and the mass of the population in this country are responsible for the "crisis" that we face in the climate.

Can you see ANY of those in that room {at the Oscars} taking mass transit? No is the correct answer. "Well, you know Pete, you have to make exemptions due to the fame factor." No I don’t. Like Rush, I couldn’t care less want Al Gore, or any of the others in that room do. I just simply do not care. They have the money to do whatever they want. So be it. But do NOT tell me I have to do something YOU are not willing to do yourself. Worse yet, tell me not to do something that you are doing MORE than I will EVER do, even if I tried.

Then you have this whole "buying offsets" thing. This is the one of the stupidest things I ever heard. OK your house is flooding. You have a foot of water on your floor. You say to me, "Let me buy a foot of space from you, since you have no water on the floor." I say, "Sure." You pay me a stupid amount of money, and now you can say you have no water. But the problem is, all you did was buy the "right" to say you have no water, but reality is you STILL have a foot of water on your floor. I still have none. Do you see how stupid this is? Al increases his "footprint," with all the flying around being a "cool" guy, so he spends more money to say he isn’t doing anything wrong.

Truth is folks, he is NOT doing anything wrong. But neither are YOU. There is NO Global Warming. But to continue to preach his message, even some in the media are calling him a evangelist for Global Warming, then to live the way he is, just goes to show you how completely idiotic all this really is. Even more idiotic is how the Mass Media and the LWL will attempt to defend him. Just watch.
Peter

Sources;
TCPR
Rush