Everything That’s Wrong with Al Gore in a Single Graph

(The Australian 04 March 2010 Mark J. Perry)

In a recent Enterprise post titled “Everything That’s Wrong with Al Gore in a Single Sentence,” Steven F. Hayward commented on Al Gore’s “extended rant” about climate change in last Sunday’s New York Times.

I’d like to follow up with a related take. In 2007, Al Gore’s mansion in Nashville burned through an average of 17,720 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity each month (see Al Gore’s electric bill here, via the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, which first reported on Al Gore’s energy usage in 2007), costing more than $16,000 for the year.

According to Department of Energy data, that’s about 19 times as much as the electricity consumed by the average U.S. household in 2007 (936 kWh per month), more than 13 times the electricity consumed monthly by the average household in Tennessee (1,344 kWh), and almost 3 times as much electricity as the average U.S. commercial customer (6,408 kWh). See the chart above. Stated differently, Al Gore uses more electricity every 18 days than the average American household consumes during the entire year.

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