Hi Fre,
I attended Dr. David Suzuki's event in Kelowna 2 days ago and he mentioned
that he travels with his family to the Okanagan every summer to pick
cherries and I know that Dr. Suzuki was the first person in Canada to buy a
Prius Hybrid car. So he probally uses the hybrid to travel to the Okanagan
valley. As far as the environmental tour called, "If your were Prime
Minister what would you do?" I am sure that he has to cover a lot of
terrritory in a short period of time.
The main issue is that both Al Gore and Dr. Suzuki are influencing alot of
people which is the most important thing now. Time is important because
2007 could be the pivitol year to save this planet.
Terry Dyck
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Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' Power Use
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:40:30 -0500
Al Gore flew from Montreal to Toronto last week. I would have thought a
true advocate for climate change could have found someone with 1)maybe a
Smart car to drive him, 2)powered with biodiesel or some other renewable
fuel. David Suzuki is on a 50-city cross Canada tour and I understand he
is also flying everywhere. When does the medium (i.e. the messenger)
become more important than the message?
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Subject: [Biofuel] Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' Power Use
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:57:43 -0800 (PST)
Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth': While telling the rest of us to cut back,
he uses 20 times more energy to run his house than everyone else
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=5072659
Heated pools
electronic gates
gas lanterns in yard
and $30,000 a year in
utility bills. How do you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e?
(2/27/07 - NASHVILLE, TN) - Back home in Tennessee, safely ensconced in his
suburban Nashville home, Vice President Al Gore is no doubt basking in the
Oscar awarded to "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary he inspired and
in which he starred. But a local free-market think tank is trying to make
that very home emblematic of what it deems Gore's environmental
hypocrisy.
Armed with Gore's utility bills for the last two years, the Tennessee
Center for Policy Research charged Monday that the gas and electric bills
for the former vice president's 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly
221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of
10,656 kilowatt-hours.
"If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility bills, I
wouldn't care," says the Center's 27-year-old president, Drew Johnson. "But
he tells other people how to live and he's not following his own rules."
Scoffed a former Gore adviser in response: "I think what you're seeing here
is the last gasp of the global warming skeptics. They've completely lost
the debate on the issue so now they're just attacking their most effective
opponent."
Kalee Kreider, a spokesperson for the Gores, did not dispute the Center's
figures, taken as they were from public records. But she pointed out that
both Al and Tipper Gore work out of their home and she argued that "the
bottom line is that every family has a different carbon footprint. And what
Vice President Gore has asked is for families to calculate that footprint
and take steps to reduce and offset it."
A carbon footprint is a calculation of the CO2 fossil fuel emissions each
person is responsible for, either directly because of his or her
transportation and energy consumption or indirectly because of the
manufacture and eventual breakdown of products he or she uses. (You can
calculate your own carbon footprint on the website
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/)
The vice president has done that, Kreider argues, and the family tries to
offset that carbon footprint by purchasing their power through the local
Green Power Switch program electricity generated through renewable
resources such as solar, wind, and methane gas, which create less waste and
pollution. "In addition, they are in the midst of installing solar panels
on their home, which will enable them to use less power," Kreider added.
"They also use compact fluorescent bulbs and other energy efficiency
measures and then they purchase offsets for their carbon emissions to bring
their carbon footprint down to zero."
These efforts did little to impress Johnson. "I appreciate the solar
panels," he said, "but he also has natural gas lanterns in his yard, a
heated pool, and an electric gate. While I appreciate that he's switching
out some light bulbs, he is not living the lifestyle that he advocates."
The Center claims that Nashville Electric Services records show the Gores
in 2006 averaged a monthly electricity bill of $1,359 for using 18,414
kilowatt-hours, and $1,461 per month for using 16,200 kilowatt-hours in
2005. During that time, Nashville Gas Company billed the family an average
of $536 a month for the main house and $544 for the pool house in 2006, and
$640 for the main house and $525 for the pool house in 2005. That averages
out to be $29,268 in gas and electric bills for the Gores in 2006, $31,512
in 2005.
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