{"id":8506,"date":"2010-05-11T15:54:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T19:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=8506"},"modified":"2010-05-11T15:54:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T19:54:49","slug":"al-gores-carbon-jackboot-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/al-gores-carbon-jackboot-print\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Gore\u2019s carbon jackboot print"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having made millions of dollars telling the serfs what they have to give up to make this world a better, cleaner place for him to live in, Al Gore has <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_orkXxp0bhEA\/S94eNDhKarI\/AAAAAAAAdDo\/Kz3K0X2_FQU\/s400\/100502-gore-house2.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"200\" height=\"172\" \/>spent some of this well-earned cash on a little cottage where he can get away from all the pollution, noise and inconvenient-truth-nagging that the rest of us have to put up with.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/blogs\/fullcomment\/archive\/2010\/05\/06\/al-gore-s-footprint.aspx\">National Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is a multi-multi-millionaire Nobel Prize winner and environmental super-crusader to do with the riches that keep piling up from his international mission to save the planet?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re Al Gore, you spend a chunk of it on yet another mega-home, this one in <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?hl=en&amp;q=montecito%20california&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wl\" target=\"_blank\">Montecito<\/a>, California, a pleasant community for really, really rich people along the Pacific Coast near Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/home\/la-hm-hotprop-gore-20100428,0,4103538.story\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> reported recently:<\/p>\n<p><em>Former Vice President <strong>Al Gore<\/strong> and his wife, <strong>Tipper,<\/strong> have added a Montecito-area property to their real estate holdings, reports the Montecito Journal.<\/p>\n<p>The couple spent $8,875,000 on an ocean-view villa on 1.5 acres with a swimming pool, spa and fountains, a real estate source familiar with the deal confirms. The Italian-style house has six fireplaces, five bedrooms and nine bathroom<\/em>s.<\/p>\n<p>This makes four mega-homes for the Gores, who have made vast amounts of money urging people to reduce the amount of energy they consume. It&#8217;s safe to say approximately everyone in the world (give or take a plutocrat) has fewer mega-homes and uses less energy than the Gores. Nine bathrooms? Is that because it&#8217;s so far from one end of the house to the other that Mr. Gore&#8217;s bladder can&#8217;t hold out? And six fireplaces: because in California, unlike, say, Canada, it gets cold in the winter, and the Gore&#8217;s <em>need<\/em> six fireplaces. Five wouldn&#8217;t be enough. Plus fountains. You can&#8217;t have enough fountains, especially as they consume no energy at all. The water just spouts into the air of its own volition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/directorblue.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/exclusive-estimate-carbon-footprint-of.html\">Directorblue<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having made millions of dollars telling the serfs what they have to give up to make this world a better, cleaner place for him to live in, Al Gore has spent some of this well-earned cash on a little cottage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/al-gores-carbon-jackboot-print\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[355,2156],"class_list":["post-8506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warming","tag-al-gore","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}