Today's non-story

Mansions use more energy to heat/cool/maintain/whatever than normal-sized houses!

Holy crap, NO WAY!

However, if you A) take great steps to minimize your energy consumption and B) counter what you do use by purchasing carbon offsets, you're contributing a lot less to the problem than most people in most average houses.

Sigh. Thank you, Drudge Report. Thank you, America, for yet another stunning dive into "it's still true even if I lie by omission".