Yes it's a cut and paste:
Two Houses Side by Side. Guess whose houses these are.
You may be surprised. Maybe you won't.
This is about more than houses read it through.
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 per
month. 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.
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 underg round purifying tanks and
then into the c istern. 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
renowned author, filmaker, lecturer and
'environmentalist ' Al Gore.
HOUSE #2 is on a
ranch near Crawford , Texas ; it is the residence of
the President of the United States , George W.
Bush.
An 'inconvenient truth.'
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