"The Story of Two Houses"


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House #1

A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated

by natural gas. Add on a pool ( and a pool house) and

a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month

this residence consumes more energy than the average

American household does in a year. The average bill for

electricity and natural gas runs over$2400. In natural

gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times

the national average for an American home. This house

is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt"

area. It's in the South.



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House #2
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.~~~~~
HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville , Tennessee ; it is the abode of the "environmentalist" Al Gore.HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford , Texas ;
it is the residence the of the President of the UnitedStates ,George W. Bush.An "inconvenient truth".


Urban Legends Reference Pages: A Tale of Two Houses (http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp)

That's awesome.

^^Doesn't that tell a tale lol.

I lol'ed. You brought something to the table, congratulations.

hmm sounds you 3 are pro Bush. Congratz

What does being pro Bush have to do with seeing the irony in that story??

hmm sounds you 3 are pro Bush. Congratz

I am notoriously completely anti-Bush, ask anyone here. I just thought it was funny.

hmm sounds you 3 are pro Bush. Congratz

I am extremely pro-Bush. However, I did see the irony, thought it was funny, and I felt really proud at that moment.

I am extremely pro-Bush. However, I did see the irony, thought it was funny, and I felt really proud at that moment.

I am proud of you today as well, albeit in a weird way. Bring more stuff like this and you will gain respect in political conversations. But you also must argue your opinions with fact and passion. Congratulations.

Let's leave this as a joke thread and keep the political stuff elsewhere, k? We'll just keep this as a funny little story.

Let's leave this as a joke thread and keep the political stuff elsewhere, k? We'll just keep this as a funny little story.

Lol, deal, I guess someone can move it to smalltalk then.

Agreed with Spoon, and Blue for once :D

Wow, at least he can afford it. New state of the art building like that cost a lot, that's why a lot of people haven't switched over to them, it would empty a lot of the so called rich people's pockets.

Dude Zero, who let you out of a cage. All I hear is a bunch of bullshit coming out of you.