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 per month. 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.’ 

I  checked Snopes