A tale of two houses:
House #1 which is the one with the long drive way is a 20 room mansion, not including 8 bathrooms heated by natural gas. There is a pool house, a pool and a separate guest house. All of these are heated by natural gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the normal american household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 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 the Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" region. It is in the south. House #2 was designed by an architectural professor at a leading university. Its 4,000 sq. ft. incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. It sits on a high prairie in the American southwest. A closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps that draws ground water through pipes that are 300 feet below the surface. The water (usually 67 degrees) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. It uses no fossil fuels or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rain water 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 water then irrigates the land that surrounds the house. House #1 is located outside of Nashville Tennessee, and is the home of "environmentalist" Al Gore. House #2 is on a ranch near Crawford Texas, and is the residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush. What an "inconvenient" truth! This can be verified at www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp