along the lines of cost of living was wondering what living expenses were around the country.
Get all my utilties bills within 3 days and this is what they came to for moth of April.
Granted April bad month for comparison with mild weather but should play out same for most.
Gas bill Atmos Energy $59.78
Electric BGMU-$52.43
Sewer and trash collection $31.42
Cable- TV & Internet $43.40
Dish nertwork (wifes chinese package) $32.95
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Armed with Gore's utility bills for the last two years, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged Monday that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president's 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.
:scared :scared
"If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility bills, I wouldn't care," says the Center's 27-year-old president, Drew Johnson. "But he tells other people how to live and he's not following his own rules."
Scoffed a former Gore adviser in response: "I think what you're seeing here is the last gasp of the global warming skeptics. They've completely lost the debate on the issue so now they're just attacking their most effective opponent."
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Kalee Kreider, a spokesperson for the Gores, did not dispute the Center's figures, taken as they were from public records. But she pointed out that both Al and Tipper Gore work out of their home and she argued that "the bottom line is that every family has a different carbon footprint. And what Vice President Gore has asked is for families to calculate that footprint and take steps to reduce and offset it."
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Al Gore may be able to give you some advice Dogs.
I think he would tell you to turn off the lights when you leave the room.
An explaination
