Drudge fails to mention that a major reason his electric bill is so high is that he pays an enormous amount extra to use solar power. Voluntary payments to get power from solar or other carbon-neutral technologies made up more than a third of his energy bill. This is not an investigative piece into the man's house. This is a simple hatchet job, taking facts out of context to attack him fairly or not.

According to this article he pays extra for green fuel. About $432 a month extra. Which means that from his $1200, $800 is normal costs and $400 is a self-imposed fee. Doesn't sound so bad when you put it that way.

Not excusing his excess, before we go willy nilly saying EVIL I don't think a fair comparison can be made until we get the numbers:

Firstly, it is necessary to compare with a house of equivalent size. The graph of energy consumption isn't a straight line as house size increases.

It is necessary to know how many people live/work there.

It is necessary to know what additional load is unusual to him, such as security systems, etc.

It is necessary to know whether people work there and on what basis - is it 24 x 7? Do they have separate cooking/washing facilities?

All these are necessary to perform a reasoned comparison of power consumption. Remember that 3 shifts of 4 security men represents an additional consumption of 12 people.

..probably more