Al Gore won an Oscar for “An Inconvenient Truth” around 2007. It was reported that Al Gore spent 221,000 kWh of electricity at his home in 2006. Consider that the average home uses 10,656 kWh becoming the equivalent of 20 times the use over the national average. After his movie was released, his electricity usage increased from 16,200 kWh per month (2005) to 18,400 kWz per month (2006). That, and the following, was a published in a press release by the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.
Gore’s mansion, 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).
The same group updated Gore’s usage and noted that 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.”
Most of this came out a year ago (and a year ago, this wonderful internet gateway to common sense didn’t exist). And the reason I started this was because I heard this morning that Al Gore’s water usage is the equivalent of 57 homes. I didn’t find it (thus unable to confirm).
Al Gore’s Home Uses 20 Times the Energy of Average American’s [Newsbuster]
Inconvenient Truth: Bush greener than Gore [The Anchoress Online]
Snopes Confirmed
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