Originally posted by Airscrew
Laz, I dont disagree that Al Gore is probably hypocritical, a man that tells me I should be doing more to save the enviroment and save the planet and then rides in limos and uses a butt load of electricity. My disagreement lies with people going all apesh** over some report from the Tennesse Center of Policy Research that uses some incomplete information to make a halfprettythang conclusion.
from their report
Nashville Electric Service/Gore House
2006
High 22619 kWh Aug – Sept
Low 12541 kWh Jan - Feb
Average: 18,414 kWh per month
Looks to me like they cherrypicked the data to show the results they wanted. they only used 4 months out of 12. Did they pick the months with highest usage? why not give me all the information? The truth is probably bad enough, but that just looks like poor reporting...
Average of 22619 and 12541 does not equal 18414. Rather, it looks like they give the same information I receive from my own electric company - the highest, lowest and average of the last 12 billing periods. Jan-Feb and Aug-Sept represent two billing periods, say from Jan 15 to Feb 15, and Aug 15 to Sept 15, and represent the highest and lowest of the 12 billing months they looked at.
They did not just average 4 months or cherry pick data. They did give all the relevant information about the 12 month period they looked at. FYI.
