A tale..

A TALE OF TWO HOUSE

Het sprookje van 2 huizen!


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.

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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 an
arid, 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 the
of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.


As verified by Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
Blessings.....Tom