[Robert A. Cook, PE]

This whole Ponzi scheme smells like BS....

OK, so the company doesn’t “purchase” or “sell” carbon offsets. (So the spokesman claims.)

But then why did Gore HIMSELF that he bought bought carbon offsets FROM this company?

And (by the way) what good does purchasing carbon offsets of 10% of your use do, when you’re USING 10 TIMES the amount of energy a normal family uses? In ONE if three houses nationally?

Forget the aircraft and planes and taxis and hotels ....

[conservative in nyc]

But then why did Gore HIMSELF that he bought bought carbon offsets FROM this company?

I don't know for sure, but since we all should be doing our taxes around now, check for the line on Form 1040 that allows you to deduct your carbon offset costs. Still looking? I can't find it. Now, ask whether Generation Investment Management, a business, can deduct this as an ordinary and necessary business expense. I don't know. But, if they are, GIM IS essentially Al Gore, since Al Gore is a partner in GIM. So Al Gore gets to deduct what he otherwise wouldn't have been able to - assuming that GIM doesn't report the personal portion of the offset "fringe benefit" as income to Al Gore.

Remember - Al Gore's the man who gave something like $300 to charity one year when he was Vice President.

[chainsaw]

This whole Ponzi scheme smells like BS....

You called it...CO2 is CO2. In IMHO this is a scheme to tax breathing.

[AFPhys]

Exactly.

It’s a Ponzi scheme.