A Really Inconvenient Truth

Normally, when I see something that sounds too good to be true, I check it out on Snopes. It's really useful to stop in-laws from sending you 300 forwards a day. They don't like finding out they're just unpaid spammers.

But this one is a beauty and yes, Virginia, it's really true. Here's the Snopes link explaining it.

I proceed:

A Tale of Two Houses

House #1: A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" area. It's in the South.

House #2: Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.

The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater 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 collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee ; It is the abode of "environmentalist" Al Gore.

HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas; It is the residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

Why do we hear none of this from our "fair" and "objective" media? Because the truth has no place in the Left's agenda. Who wants to hear that the self-professed champion of the environment is one of it's worst personal polluters? And who among the media wants to admit that the "evil oil man" Bush is actually greener than Gore?

Read, my friends. Read. Know the Truth, and it will set you free.

-F.D. for 2 Joe Schmoes

The Big Global Warming Lie

To any reader who takes at least a few minutes a day to read, you probably already are aware that the "science" for man-made global warming is shaky at best. Honestly, it's more like an outright lie and what I like to call the Left's Ultimate Power Grab. The Left historically gets power through crises, whether real (like the Depression) or imagined (like this) when there is no crisis.

A fellow blogger posted a link to an article from a mere 30 years ago (OK, 34, but I'm just rounding) from Time Magazine regarding the fear of "global cooling"! The link can be had here.

Yes, for those of you born after 1980, there was a hysteria over the inevitability of a new Ice Age! And guess what one of the causes was? Read the following snippet:

Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of
Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other
particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning
may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of
the earth.

Indeed, we were driving ourselves to our doom! Sound familiar? And in the 1970s, gas was a lot dirtier than it is now! Back in those days, you had a choice between leaded and unleaded gas.

We were also told that the rainforests and oil would be all used up by now. But they're both still here, and in abundance. Heck, the US alone is sitting on centuries worth of oil. But the Left can't have us use it, because producing our own oil won't increase the supply. Such logic passes for intelligent thought nowadays. Makes me afraid for the future.

- F.D. for 2 Joe Schmoes