ENVIRONMENT campaigner Al Gore is using more electricity than ever, despite pledging to cut consumption more than a year ago.
According to the Tennessee Centre for Policy Research, the annual electricity usage at the former US vice-president's home in Nashville, Tennessee, has risen by 10 per cent.
Mr Gore's environmental activism inspired the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. But the TCPR branded him a "hypocrite" in February last year after discovering that his eight-bathroom house had consumed nearly 221,000 kilowatt hours of electricity in the previous year - more than 20 times the national average.
Mr Gore responded by saying he was giving the house an energy-efficient makeover, fitting solar panels, low-energy lightbulbs and a geothermal heating and cooling system. However, the TCPR has got hold of his bill again, this time comparing consumption between the 12 months before June last year, when it says he installed his new technology, and the year since then.
It says the figures show the Gore residence uses an average of 17,768kWh per month - 1638kWh more energy per month than before the renovations. By comparison, the average American household consumes 11,040kWh in an entire year, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Drew Johnson, the TCPR's president, said: "A man's commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home."
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