Comments on: Perhaps Al Gore should ask George W Bush for help in making his house more energy efficient

By: pinkpanther

pinkpanther — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:16:39 +0000

Ah, but Travis – he’s ‘important’! In his own mind, because he’s showing the rest of us the light, his own personal behaviour is excused. Unfortunately, this is how any successful politician thinks – the ones who don’t think like this aren’t mean enough to rise to high office. It should be a disqualification from the job to want to do it.

By: TurboCohen

TurboCohen — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:12:50 +0000

In the late 80’s Bush Sr put the energy policy act and clean air act to work which stimulated the development of todays alternative energy technology then Mr. Gore helped end that era with mandates that replaced tax breaks.. ending a lot od R&D as well as demonstration projects that were often privately funded.
The two Mr. Bush’s will have to wait and let the historians do their homework and hopefully the truth about their own privately funded “green engineered” homes. The far left neo-environmentalists ( I used to be one) would accomplish something useful if they could put politics aside and find out why people like Mr Bush and his papa built their energy efficient low environmental impact homes. I wonder who their architects were? They deserve some credit too.

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:44:25 +0000

I have to completely agree with this article, its bull when you have a guy like that who doesn’t practice what he preaches, and another point to add to that is his gas consumption. He’s supposedly doing all he can to lower emissions as he’s flying his jet around the world burning more fuel in a year than most people will burn in their lives. Talk about a good example.

By: Richard Poor

Richard Poor — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:51:03 +0000

The same people that encouraged GW to build an eco ranch house are pushing PV-PHEV at pluginamerica.org
The unfortunate part of the story is that GWB has yet to encourage the American public to follow his example on houses. Al Gore at least has retrofitted his 1910 mansion with state-of-the-art insulation and PV and solar hot water and upgraded his appliances. Allegedly Al is also hooked up with qtww.com

By: George HW Bush installs Skystream wind turbine at Kennebunkport home

George HW Bush installs Skystream wind turbine at Kennebunkport home — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:14:02 +0000

[...] miss our previous posts about George W Bush’s house in Crawford, and Al Gore’s LEED renovation in [...]

By: D Miller

D Miller — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:16:08 +0000

Let’s not forget that Al Gore is a big profiteer from the Energy Initiatives he supports as well. It would be nice if the mighty $ wasn’t making all of our politicians decisions for them.

BTW, the science behind his movie is not yet conclusive and there is plenty of opposition by very influential and well respected climatologists. Maybe Al should have titled his movie “An unproven truth” or “not really truth at all” or even something like “still unproven claim” to really qualify as documentary and not be fiction.

By: Practical Environmentalist » Blog Archive » Update: Al Gore goes green at home with a LEED renovation and solar roof

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:52:34 +0000

[...] We’ve previously mentioned the weird irony of the sustainable design of the George W Bush house in Crawford, compared to Al Gore…. [...]

By: Energy Planet

Energy Planet — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:35:34 +0000

I agree with the above comment. When I heard the hype surrounding the "irony" of it all etc, etc... I was suspicious of the right's likely hand in blowing things out of proportion. Or perhaps it was another democratic nominee trying to harm Gore's chances as a party leader in the coming presidential elections. Either way the fact remains that Mr. Gore has done an amazing job of raising public awareness about global warming. The practical environmentalist is an excellent resource that is listed in the renewable energy directory - environment blogs category.

By: George Johnston

George Johnston — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:46:41 +0000

Perhaps you should read skippy's post where he points out that the right wing noise machine puts out hot air and noxious fumes - in other words, they lie about Al Gore once again.