The first hypocrisy inc. post on the electricity usage in former Vice President Al Gore's home in Nashville, TN was here.
In the movie 'An Inconvenient Truth' Gore called for individuals to save the earth by reducing energy usage.
At that time, Gore's home used about 20 times the average home electrical usage. It is a big house (image to the left) and, at the time, I speculated that there might be some kind of security service operating out of the building that was taking a lot of electricity. Also, at the time, Gore was planning a number of capital improvements to the property. These included solar panels, window treatments and other energy saving items.
Well, it is now about 10 years later and a new Al Gore movie, "Inconvenient Sequel" is in some theaters (a publicity shot for that movie is the final image) .
An update of the electrical usage of Gore's home is here. Apparently, Gore's home now uses even more electricity than it did before the solar panels, etc. were installed (the security is basically the same s 10 years ago) . The home also uses far more per square foot than similar homes. Also, Gore (a recent image is at the top of the post) has two other homes. One house he and his wife Tipper purchased was on the California coast. That property went to Tipper in a divorce so that isn't among Gore's homes. Gore does spend about $5,000 per year for a program that is something like a carbon offset. He was also doing something like this in 2007 but the details were not known as well as today. It is conceivable, barely, that Gore actually believes that his carbon offset outweighs the energy usage of this home (even though it is just one of three homes). Thus I'll decline to give this a hypocrisy award.
Update: Based on the argument that Gore really wants better laws not individual action and based on the carbon offset theory, The New Republic defends Gore here.
