Al Gore's home in Nashville, Tennessee (above) is said to use
twelve times as much electricity as the average Nashville home.
Will his new villa in Montecito, California be more green?
(AP Photo)
Apparently not as worried about dangerous sea level rises as he touts in his speeches, Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper have purchased a seaside villa in Montecito, California. The Nobel Laureate reported paid $8.8 million for the property.
TheLos Angeles Times, via the Montecito Journal is reporting that the home is on a 1.5 acre lot complete with a swimming pool, spa and fountains in an area that is also home to Oprah Winfrey and other Hollywood celebrities. The Gore’s will have plenty of room for guests and entertaining with five bedrooms and nine baths in the home as well as six fireplaces.
Gore has come under fire in the past for leaving a carbon footprint far in excess of the average American leading to charges of “do as I say, not as I do.”
His 10,000 square foot mansion in Nashville, Tennessee was the subject of much discussion three years ago when it was revealed that it used 12 times as much electricity as the average home in the area. Similarly, he flies tens of thousands of miles a year further adding to his role as a lightning rod in the debate about global warming.
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The former vice president says he lives a ‘carbon neutral’ life by purchasing carbon offsets. Those are purchased largely from Generation Investment Management, a firm in which Gore serves as chairman and profits from. The U.K. Telegraph speculated last year that Gore would become the world’s first “carbon billionaire.”
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Not only hypocritical but ostentatious, too.
I guess algore isn't fearing the rising of the seas after all. . .
However, the irony here is when one day a big wave storm actually wipes his home off shore, then he will actually regret his decision.
I'm sure the 6 fireplaces are energy efficient:D Anyway, why keep up the facade? Climategate outed him and America is on to his hypocrisy
Gore is nothing but a state sanctioned criminal. And the AmeroConned sheeple love him.
And to think that this con man came within a few votes of the presidency!
please give him some credit, after all, he invented the internet
Isn't it great that Algore does all this stuff in plain daylight yet has some people so brainwashed that they rush to make excuses for him. He is the embodiment of everything he preaches against, yet his believers give him a pass while ruthlessly attacking the rest of the world for the same excesses.
Al Gore is the Catholic Priest of the Church of Green. Diddling all the little fossil fuels in the comfort of his obscenely excessive mansions, before going out and cursing and damning all the rest of us for even the mere thought of doing the same. Let's hope this false prophet meets a similar end as Jim Jones and David Koresh...
Fireplace in southern california? and six of them? What idiot built that home?
Doug,
Yeah, imagine having a con man as President!! Oh,uh, wait......
Albert Gore, Oh dear algore
Such an entertaining bore -
Makes crap up with ease, and then
Tells the same old lies again.
Albert Gore, oh dear algore
Don't blame him. Because before
We look at all the lies he told,
We first see idiots in his fold.
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