Earth-lover Gore doesn't love 'Earth Hour'
By: Kiki Ryan and Jeff Dufour
Washington Examiner
03/29/09 2:07 PM EDT
Do as I say, not as I do?
Do as I say, not as I do? Seems like former Vice-President Al Gore may be embracing that motto as evidenced Saturday night by his failure to turn off the lights of his Nashville home for “Earth Hour.”
Drew Johnson, president of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research —the same organization that also found Gore's home consumes 20 times more electricity than the average household — told Yeas & Nays that Gore’s Belle Meade-section mansion did not go dark during the global campaign’s designated hour between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Johnson did admit that although it wasn’t as bright as can be, Gore did have on "a dozen or so" floodlights on his trees, a light shining on his address number, and a noticeable “bluish glow” from his powered-on televisions and computers coming from inside his house.
“It was very noticeable compared to the fact that even the streetlights on his street were off for the hour,” Johnson said. He also added how ironic it was that Nashville was one of the “official” U.S. cities of “Earth Day.”
Earth Hour was established by Australian conservationists in 2007. The Empire State Building in New York, the Sydney Opera House, the Golden Gate Bridge, Egypt’s Great Pyramids and St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome are just examples of some buildings that participated in the voluntary blackouts.
Sounds like Gore used more power than even the pope did Saturday night.
Gore's address, lit for all to see
(photo: Drew Johnson)
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