There are questions as to how the TCPR accessed utility bills, who is funding them and who is actually pulling their strings. Once they have done so, he then advocates that they purchase offsets, as the Gore’s do, to bring their footprint down to zero. Gore has asked is that every family calculate their carbon footprint and try to reduce it as much as possible. Gore has had a consistent position of purchasing carbon offsets to offset the family’s carbon footprint - a concept the right-wing fails to understand.
According to Think Progress: Gore’s family has taken numerous steps to reduce the carbon footprint of their private residence, including signing up for 100 percent green power through Green Power Switch, installing solar panels, and using compact fluorescent bulbs and other energy saving technology. Through its network SPN advances the public policy ideas of the expansive right-wing political movement on the state and local levelĪl Gore has responded in part thus far to note that they have embarked on a massive campaign to bring their family's carbon footprint down to near zero. The TCPR is part of a national network of state-based right-wing organizations in 37 states as well as prominent nationwide right-wing organizations. If you look at the links at the website for The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, you will find links to only far right leaning organizations like the Competitive Enterprises Institute, the Cato Institute, and The Heritage Foundation to name a few. Tennessee Center's President Drew Johnson comes straight out of the right's network, coming from Exxon-funded American Enterprise Institute and the right-wing-funded National Taxpayers Foundation. The Swiftboaters attack on Al Gore after his Academy award for An Inconvenient Truth, is not being done by a "non-partisan, independent" organization.
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(The Tennessee Center for Policy Research is an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions.) In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006. “As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.
Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year. Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359. Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh - guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh - more than 20 times the national average. The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy.