A Tale of two Homes     

House #1

A beautiful 28-room ranch.

This home comes with pool, pool house, and a separate guest house. All heated by the warmth of natural gas

The problem is that even though this home is only 4 times larger than an average home,  it consumes 12 times more energy in just one month than an average American home uses "in an entire year."

 The average bill for electricity and natural gas for this lovely Ranch is more than $2,400 per month. In natural gas alone, (a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in an Alaskan or  Snow Belt area.  

It's in the plain old South.

House #2

Another Ranch
Not much to look at on the outside

Designed by an architecture from a leading university.
This house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide.

This house is a 4,000 square foot (4 bedroom) home nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

House #2 is owned by George W Bush

This is the ranch in Crawford Texas currently known as
The Little White House
This is George Bush's main residence away from politics

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