In a media release from yesterday, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research points out that famed global warming fighter Al Gore is a blatant hypocrite for living in a house that they report:
In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.
I always thought that it made more sense to downsize into a smaller more efficient house after the kids have grown up for personal finance reasons. But wouldn’t the same make sense environmentally for a Global Warming fighter like Al Gore. Apparently not.
Ok, I’ll admit that stat is little misleading. It is comparing monthly stats to yearly and using the average household, whatever that is. But it’s fair to point out that Al has made tens of millions of dollars advocating for others to change their lifestyles but Al and Tipper have personally chosen to live in a huge old mansion in Nashville.
It’s also true that he has made some improvements to help curb his energy consumption. But the Gores can afford to make these improvements partially because they have proffitted so much off of Al’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth.” The media release points out:
In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.
Many will make the claim that this criticism is only coming from the right or global warming deniers, but according to an ABC article titled “Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’? — A $30,000 Utility Bill” by Jake Tapper:
Gore is not the only environmentalist associated with “An Inconvenient Truth” who has come under fire for personal habits — and not all the criticism has come from the Right.
Writing in The Atlantic Monthly in 2004, liberal writer Eric Alterman criticized producer Laurie David for her use of private Gulfstream jets. David, he wrote “reviles the owners of SUVs as terrorist enablers, yet gives herself a pass when it comes to chartering one of the most wasteful uses of fossil-based fuels imaginable.” New Republic writer Gregg Easterbrook followed up, computing that “one cross-country flight in a Gulfstream is the same, in terms of Persian-Gulf dependence and greenhouse-gas emissions, as if she drove a Hummer for an entire year.”
How much money and fame has old Al made of his “An Inconvenient Truth” movie? Enough to consume well more than his fair share of energy. Way to lead by example there big Al!
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