War on Warming Begins at (Al Gore's) Home
By Chris Cillizza and Matthew Mosk
Thursday, March 1, 2007; Page A08
Fresh off his victory lap at the Academy Awards, former vice president Al Gore -- who has not closed the door on a 2008 bid -- found himself in a more familiar position: on the receiving end of a political attack.
The barb came via the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a Nashville-based
Wow the AP has already discreated much of this story and here is the WashPost recycling the talking point like good little foot soldiers.
As for this so called think tank. I have also review most of their published papers and can only wonder if these super sleuth reporters venture in the the way back machine.
Is your reporting budget so cut to the bone that can not afford to Google or a phone call, Google is free. Those phone calls l did them for ya the Center told me they only wanted to cover his consumption and that is what they did. I called up Nicole Williams, (615)383-6431 editor@tennesseepolicy.org you know what she told me "We are only covering Gore's usage from the consumptions side and the carbon offsets were not part of the story and that they got the info from NES"
Which I then called/
The nice lady at the NES Customer Service at 615-736-6900 and give them an address and they will give you the hi and low for the address Now want the more information all one has to do is walk down and hand them 10 buck and you can get a print out of any address. It is all public information yet according to Ms. Martian from NES they would blackout the Name and Account number.
My problem with this story was that the NES does not give an average so how did they get it besides adding it up them self and using some number for the basis. Oh SNAP NES company spokeswoman Laurie Parker said the utility never got a request from the policy center and never gave it any information.
So the numbers they did come up with are false. They exaggerated by 30,000 kwh. The Gores used about 191,000 kilowatt hours in 2006, according to bills reviewed by The Associated Press. The typical Nashville household uses about 15,600 kilowatt-hours per year.
The group said that Gore used nearly 221,000 kilowatt hours last year and that his average monthly electric bill was $1,359. Johnson said his group got its figures from Nashville Electric Service.
What is sad is that the Washington Post puts this under it name. If this is the quality of the reporting we should come to expect from the post. I don't know -- it should really stop and consider it's mission and who it serves the public or the powerful.
NRJ
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