Carbon Offsets In A Nut Shell

Huntington News ^ | 2/27/2007 | KeliKIlohana

[Keli Kilohana]

Gore claims that he makes carbonoffset for his $30,000 carbon footprint.

[Keli Kilohana]

Carbon offset? That's like eating a double pie ala mode with whip cream and butterscotch syrup and then drinking someone else's diet coke as a calorie offset.

[Paleo Conservative]

That's just for his house. What about for his travel?

[Peach]

What a great analogy!

[frogjerk]

That's just for his house. What about for his travel?

BINGO!

[Jaysun]

Carbon offset? That's like eating a double pie ala mode with whip cream and butterscotch syrup and then drinking someone else's diet coke as a calorie offset.

I used to think "Slim Fast" worked the same way. I'd stuff myself and then drink a couple of "Slim Fast" to cancel it out. I was over 400 pounds before I finally admitted that it just wasn't working. So I gave up the slim fast and lost 220 pounds.

I think Al Gore drinks a lot of "Slim Fast".

[Nomorjer Kinov]

No, it's like eating that double pie a la mode with whipped cream and butterscotch, and mitigating the caloric impact by paying somebody to recognize the fact that there is a starving African who is going hungry.

[perfect stranger]

I'm not logged in.

[Enterprise]

Somehow, some way, the liberals had to come up with something to explain their hypocrisy. This "carbon offset" fairy tale is a doozy!

[Reaganesque]

Actually, that's like eating a double pie ala mode with whip cream and butterscotch syrup and then paying someone else to go on a diet.

[soccermom]

I like this one from Ghengis on another thread: I tried to explain to my wife that I was willing to buy "Blocks of Celibacy" from a little, old man down the road who was not using them. I had a few wild weekends planned. She failed to understand the math on how this would make me Philandering Neutral.

[NCLaw441]

Just give me a Rwandan kid's offset, and I can eat all I want.

[crazyhorse691]

My understanding from a site called Green Switch Power is that each block of green power(150kw) is the equivalent to 1 acre of trees. I saw no details on how they came up with that. But, it stills reminds me of a scam.

[airborne]

He should be paying homeless people.

They don't have much of a carbon footprint, I'd guess.

[L.N. Smithee]

Gore can suck up all the power he wants and pay a premium because he's the son of an oil tycoon and a wise investor on his own (Apple, Google, etc.) Laurie David, who married into Seinfeld millions, can fly privately all she likes and do the same. As for the rest of us, we're supposed to give up our SUVs for little Priuses (that don't get the gas mileage as advertised), ride our bikes, and sacrifice tax dollars for green power boondoggles (see the new Forbes for more on that).

Yep, it looks like Ol' Orwell was on target again. "Some animals are more equal than others."

[WBL 1952]

Carbon Offsets:

If you cannot sell them on ebay; they are worthless.

Yup, they are worthless.


I am waiting for Al Gore to tell us "Hey, I picked up these 10 tons of carbon offsets from some homeless guy on the street that was not using his allotment since he didn't have a home. I gave him $50 for them.

[I_like_good_things_too]

We can't expect the extremely wealthy & powerful to conserve energy. They're too important. They'll pay their energy serfs to conserve for them.

[soccermom]

I mentioned on another thread that I'm going to try to talk one of my kids into doing this as a science project to see if the they really do offset. As I heard it reported on Glenn Beck, his entire year's worth of "carbon footprint" could be offset for $160, which would be used to buy an energy efficient oven for someone in Eritrea. Sooooooooo......a wood-buring oven in Eritrea puts out as much carbon as Glenn Beck's family releases in a whole year with SUVs and the like? Sounds like a lot of that "carbon offset" money is going into "overhead". What a racket!

[Salamander]

So everytime I turn on a light, an acre of trees die?

[panaxanax]

Actually, that's like eating a double pie ala mode with whip cream and butterscotch syrup and then paying someone else to go on a diet. Perfect analogy.

[RightField]

If you cannot sell them on ebay; they are worthless.

Yup, they are worthless.

Hehe ... some schmucks think they are the next global currency. Read this ...

[Hoosier-Daddy]

"Everytime I hear someone mention Carbon Footprint, I reach for my gun"

[elkfersupper]

The word is "nutshell".

The extra space and capitaliztion disturbed several electrons, requiring the author to ante up and pay a premium for extra carbon footprint.

[keats5]

Ohhh, let's just make up reality.

And this guy was so close to being our president.

[Trteamer]

This carbon offset crap will end up being a bigger scam than food for oil.

[Krankor]

Carbon offsets are like the old I Love Lucy show

Ricky, I saved you $100.00 today!
Great, Lucy. How did you do that?
I bought three new dresses and they were all on sale!

[PizzaDriver]

So long as Saint Al buys his Carbon Credits, he remains Sin-Free!

Saints in the Church of Global Warming mustn't be expected to Lead By EXAMPLE.

[PizzaDriver]

So long as Saint Al buys his Carbon Credits, he remains Sin-Free!

Saints in the Church of Global Warming mustn't be expected to Lead By EXAMPLE.

[MiltonFriedmanFan]

Everytime I hear a story about this idiotic scheme, Im gonna burn an old tire to offset their offset.

[TIElniff]

Who issues these Carbon Offsets? And how do we know the Carbon Offsets we buy are not counterfeit? And who do we buy them from and what happens to the money?

[ClaireSolt]

Maybe the correction in the markets was caused by the info that we are onto this carbon offset scam.

[Figment]

I've got some carbon offsets I'l sell ol'Al for $10,000 KW/HR.
Hell, he's stupid, he might take it up

[Tarheel]

"Everytime I hear someone mention Carbon Footprint,

I think someone has dirty shoes and they are mucking up my carpets with big black footprints!

[silverleaf]

No, that's like eating your dessert AND someone elses dessert and paying him to drink a diet coke. Then averaging out the calories consumed by two people - to obscure the fact of your gluttony.

[silverleaf]

From Page Six (NY Post)- a blurb that illustrates the idiocy of carbon offsets- You have to admit there is a sort of karma in giving rich people gift certificates for recycled cow farts


http://www.nypost.com/seven/02272007/gossip/pagesix/penance_for_gas_guzzlers_pagesix_.htm

February 27, 2007 -- HOLLYWOOD'S wealthy liberals can now avoid any guilt they might feel for consuming so much non-renewable fossil fuel in their private jets, their SUVs, and their multiple air-conditioned mansions. This year's Oscar goodie bag contained gift certificates representing 100,000 pounds of greenhouse gas reductions from TerraPass, which describes itself as a "carbon offset retailer." The 100,000 pounds "are enough to balance out an average year in the life of an Academy Award presenter," a press release from TerraPass asserts. "For example, 100,000 pounds is the total amount of carbon dioxide created by 20,000 miles of driving, 40,000 miles on commercial airlines, 20 hours in a private jet and a large house in Los Angeles. The greenhouse gas reductions will be accomplished through TerraPass' [program] of verified wind energy, cow power [collecting methane from manure] and efficiency projects." Voila, guilt-free consumption! It reminds us of the era when rich Catholics paid the church for "dispensations" that would shorten their terms in Purgatory.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I read an interesting proposition some years ago. It was suggested that $15 billion each year in tree plantings would eliminate the so called excess CO2 that is claimed to be so awful.

$15 billion is chump change in the US economy. I asked a liberal friend that is a believer in CO2 & GW, if this is such a crisis, why isn't Gore out there calling for a tree planting solution? He could not give me an answer.

[freemike]

Great! I love it!! Could I also be "theft neutral" if I stole my neighbors plasma TV but paid someone else to not steal their neighbors plasma TV?? This could be fun!

[alnick]

Carbon offset? That's like eating a double pie ala mode with whip cream and butterscotch syrup and then drinking someone else's diet coke as a calorie offset.

No, it's more like Gore paying some poor schlub to drink that diet Coke for him. :-)

[Mygirlsmom]

So what do you bet they're "selling" the offset on the same acre of trees over and over again?

[vigilante2]

algore's brain is offset

[tcrlaf]

P.T. Barnum is laughing from the grave at this feel-guilt fleecing of guilt-ridden Liberals...

Create a fake "Commodity", then get stupid liberals to PAY you for them!!

WHAT A SCAM!!

Can you imagine?
"Buddy, can you spare a Carbon Credit? I really need a smoke..."

[narby]

As I heard it reported on Glenn Beck, his entire year's worth of "carbon footprint" could be offset for $160, which would be used to buy an energy efficient oven for someone in Eritrea.

So what they've done is invent a brand new variant of communism. Take from the rich United States and give it to the poor in Eritrea.

Now that not even the left can pretend that socialism/communism is actually beneficial, they've come up with a new excuse to take from the rich, give to the poor, and take a percentage for themselves. They've got the solution, they're just desperate to find the problem.

[Grizzled Bear]

No, it's like eating that double pie a la mode with whipped cream and butterscotch, and mitigating the caloric impact by paying somebody to recognize the fact that there is a starving African who is going hungry.

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No. Here's what it's like. It's like eating that double pie a la mode with whipped cream and butterscotch and then forcing SOMEBODY ELSE (You and Me) to pay for someone to recognize the fact that there is a starving African who is going hungry.

That's the liberal way.

[KC_Conspirator]

I saw an earlier post which likened it to the "indulgence" fees paid to the Catholic Church. Go visit the town brother, lie, cheat, and steal. Then pay the church its fee, maybe do confession if you feel like it, then all all your sins are gone; your pure!

[tubebender]

I use diet grapefruit drink in my Vodka Collins to offset the calories. Then someone told me there were no calories in Vodka. ;(

[lainie]

I love all your analogies, but I think carbon credits are more like going to church on Sunday, counting each minute as a crap-behavior credit, so that you can go back to being a bastard the rest of the week with impunity.

[MissouriConservative]

I had a cousin who, when we were kids, would eat the largest breakfast on the restaurant menu and then put sweet and low in his coffee. It's the same thing.

[lainie]

gmta ;)

[lainie]

yep, or the cheerleaders in high school who would sit down in the morning with extra-sized chocolate topped eclairs and a skim milk.

[jonrick46]

Carbon offset is another word for money in my pocket at the expense of someone you just shook down Jesse Jackson style.

[ApplegateRanch]

And who do we buy them from and what happens to the money?

The [New] Producers:

"We'll sell 1,000% of our offsets to many different investors, deposit the money in The Caymans, have a major fire that destroys their value by putting out gobs of CO^2, declare bankruptcy, and retire offshore...".