An Inconvenient Truth: I was listening to the news (via a podcast) tonight and I heard a piece of news that certainly won't make the frontpage. The first was regarding Al Gore's well publicized energy gluttony. The leader of the global warming crowd flies around on his private jet telling us how we need to cut back on our energy consumption, but consider this:

"Over the past two years, the gas and electric bills for his 20-room mansion and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.

Nashville Gas Company billed the family during the same period an average of $536 a month for the main house and $544 for the pool house in 2006, and $640 for the main house and $525 for the pool house in 2005. That averages out to be $29,268 in gas and electric bills for the Gores in 2006, $31,512 in 2005." (Baxter Bulletin)

He doesn't use solar or wind power, he doesn't drive a hybrid or electric vehicle. In fact, I can't see one thing in his life that is an example of anything but excess. Seems kind of hypocritical from the guy who gave us the Internet.

But what about the evil oil barron George W. Bush? Can't you just see him burning off one of his oil wells in the backyard of his mansion? Well, he doesn't have a mansion.

According to a story in the April 29, 2001, Chicago Tribune, "Bush loves ecology — at home," the president's house is a model of ecological purity.

"The 4,000-square-foot house is a model of environmental rectitude," wrote freelance reporter Rob Sullivan. "Geothermal heat pumps located in a central closet circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet deep in the ground where the temperature is a constant 67 degrees; the water heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. Systems such as the one in this 'eco-friendly' dwelling use about 25 percent of the electricity that traditional heating and cooling systems utilize.

"A 25,000-gallon underground cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof runs; wastewater from sinks, toilets and showers goes into underground purifying tanks and is also funneled into the cistern. The water from the cistern is used to irrigate the landscaping surrounding the four-bedroom home. Plants and flowers native to the high prairie area blend the structure into the surrounding ecosystem."

So when they line up and rail against the president for his evil ecological policies in favor of the liberal left, lets take a look at what their lives are like. Bush isn't screaming from every platform that will pay him to tell us how bad things are, he is just quietly living an example that we should all live.