 | | There are two Americas. This is the kind John Edwards lives in. |
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Tuesday defended the construction of a sprawling, 28,000-square-foot house in North Carolina, arguing that his home is a model of energy efficiency.
Betcha the utilities bill is more than $50/month.
Major conspicuous consumption. The house itself is bigger than most people's building lots. (1 Acre = 43,560 square feet, so the house itself is better than a half acre. By way of comparison, the Vanderbilt manse at Biltmore (pictured - Breck Boy's main house is only a 7th or an 8th that size) has four acres of floor space, though I think that includes the servants' quarters. But the indoor pool and the bowling alley are both in the main house, so there's no need for the Barn. Vanderbilt could keep his polo ponies in his barns. Edwards' have to be boarded.)
"The house was built from the beginning, both in its location for passive solar and the use of active solar, to help provide some of the energy for the house," Edwards said in an interview with The Associated Press. "It doesn't provide all of the energy, but it provides some."
And my solar lights also provide some but it ain't running the air conditioner.
Sitting on 102 secluded acres, the 28,000-square-foot estate that Edwards and his family call home has a main house with five bedrooms and six-and-a-half baths. It's connected by a covered walkway to a bright red addition known as "The Barn," that includes its own living facilities along with a handball court, an indoor pool and an indoor basketball court with a stage at one end.
Where's the swimming pool for the horses?
More on the lifestyles of the rich and litigious snipped.
On energy, John Edwards would:- Cap greenhouse gas emissions beginning in 2010, cutting them by 15 percent by 2020.
i.e. Cut economic activity by 15%. But then, he already got his.
- Push for a new treaty to bring developing nations into the battle. "The issue of global warming is a serious crisis for the world. We are near the tipping point," he said.
Again, John Edwards already got his.
- Create a new energy fund by selling $10 billion in greenhouse pollution permits And make Al Gore an even richer man.
and end $3 billion in subsidies for big oil companies. He would also set a goal of raising fuel efficiency standards to 40 miles per gallon.
Wanna bet his cars don't get half that?
- Set a goal of freezing electrical demand over the next decade
Why not? All it should take is to cut off John Edwards and Al Gore from the national electrical grid.
and producing 25 percent of the nation's electricity from renewable sources.
Is nuclear renewable? I know Slicksters like him produce a lot of hot air, but it's low quality, not good enough to run through a turbine.
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