Just as Al Gore moved into the media spotlight with an endorsement of Barack Obama, a right-wing think-tank in Gores home state is claiming a 10 percent increase over the last year in personal electricity consumption at the Gore household. replica Patek Philippe watch Calling Gore a global warming alarmist, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, which first publicized the Gores energy use in 2007 following the release of An Inconvenient Truth, says they obtained billing information from the Nashville Electric Service through a public records request.
According to the TCPR, the Gore household still consumes an average of 17,768 kWh per month, at a cost of $16,533 in the last year, despite an enviro-overhaul last June. For comparison, the Energy Information Administration lists average residential consumption in 2006 at 6,307 kWh per month.A spokesman for Gore, quoted in the Telegraph (UK), explained that the retrofitting, involving solar panels and geothermal heating, was a Longines replica watches three-year project only completed last November--too recent for a proper before-and-after comparison. The spokesman also disputed the increase, saying Gores utility bills had gone down 40 percent since the renovations, which earned the house gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.--Matthew Fishbane
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