By Chad Phillips
MTW contributing writer

One of our readers sent me an email recently on a story which just has to be seen to be believed. What was thought to be a clever ruse once again turned out to be true and was corroborated by Snopes.

Apparently, George W. Bush's private residence near Crawford Texas is more eco-friendly than (you guessed it) that quasi econut, Al Gore.

Reasic, however, gives some very good justifications for why Gore appears to be the quintessential politician in Green clothing. I'm told that Gore's extravagance really is only apparent and that the colossal size of his carbon footprint is easily reduced to zero by purchasing "carbon offsets."

What Mr. Gore has asked is that every family calculate their carbon footprint and try to reduce it as much as possible. Once they have done so, he then advocates that they purchase offsets, as the Gore's do, to bring their footprint down to zero.

Gore must've missed this segment which tells us that the most effective way to reduce our carbon footprint is to give up consuming meat. And for once, I agree with Gore: Some things are just not worth giving up, even if it means saving the planet from certain doom.