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I checked this out on Snopes...it's accurate.

A Tale of two houses...very interesting





House 1:

The four-bedroom home was planned so that "every
room has a relationship with something in the
landscape that's different from the room next door.
Each of the rooms feels like a slightly different
place." The resulting single-story house is a
paragon of environmental planning.

The passive-solar house is built of honey-colored
native limestone and positioned to absorb winter
sunlight, warming the interior walkways and walls of
the 4,000-square-foot residence. Geothermal heat
pumps circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet
deep in the ground. These waters pass through a heat
exchange system that keeps the home warm in winter
and cool in summer. A 25,000-gallon underground
cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof urns;
wastewater from sinks, toilets, and showers cascades
into underground purifying tanks and is also
funneled into the cistern. The water from the
cistern is then used to irrigate the landscaping
around the four-bedroom home,
(which) uses indigenous grasses, shrubs, and
flowers to complete the exterior treatment of the
home. In addition to its minimal environmental
impact, the look and layout of the house reflect one
of the paramount priorities: relaxation. A spacious
10-foot porch wraps completely around the residence
and beckons the family outdoors. With few hallways
to speak of, family and guests make their way from
room to room either directly or by way of the porch.
"The house doesn't hold you in. Where the porch ends
there is grass. There is no step-up at all." This
house consumes 25% of the energy of an average
American home. (Source: Cowboys and Indians
Magazine, Oct. 2002 and Chicago Tribune April 2001.)

House 2:

This 20-room, 8-bathroom house consumes more
electricity every month than the average American
household uses in an entire year. The average
household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours
(kWh) per year, according to the Department of
Energy. In 2006, this house devoured nearly 221,000
kWh, more than 20 times the national average. Last
August alone, the house burned through 22,619 kWh,
guzzling more than twice the electricity in one
month than an average American family uses in an
entire year. As a result of this energy consumption,
the average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.
Also, natural gas bills for this house and guest
house averaged $1,080 per month last year. In total,
this house had nearly $30,000 in combined
electricity and natural gas bills for 2006. (Source:
just about anywhere in the news last month online
and on talk radio, but barely on TV.)

House 1 belongs to George and Laura Bush, and is
in Crawford , Texas .

House 2 belongs to Al and Tipper Gore, and is in
Nashville , Tennessee .

************************ Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

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