Just Another Brick in the Wall

I expect that most of you know that about a year ago our esteemed (uh hum!) Al Gore decided to put his money where his mouth is...so to speak. That's right, he gave the Gore mansion a makeover - complete with solar panels, energy efficient light bulbs and a geothermal heating/cooling system. Bravo and Kudos to the former Vice Prez.

But the story doesn't end there. It's time for an update. How much did Mr. Global Warming save? Nothing. Less than nothing, actually. The year following his 'green-up' they consumed a modest increase of 10% over the year prior.

If that weren't bad enough, their total energy consumption was a paltry 213,000 KW. That's enough to run 232 average homes for a month! To be fair, let's look at that in the same frame of reference - that's more power that 19 average families consume in a year.

Seems to me he would have been better off putting his money where his mouth really is. I'll give you three guesses where where that is...and the first two don't count.

(Here's a hint - his mouth is attached to his head)