LA HISTORIA DE DOS CASAS DE RESIDENCIA PRESIDENCIAL.

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.



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HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; it is the abode of

the "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.



An "inconvenient truth".