DIA passengers could pay to erase carbon footprint

Rocky Mountain News ^ | 19 jan 08 | Chris Walsh

[rellimpank]

Feeling guilty about the amount of carbon dioxide your upcoming flight will pump into the atmosphere?

Soon you might be able to fork over some extra cash at Denver International Airport to invest in projects intended to help negate your share of the environmental damage caused by air travel.

DIA is looking to become one of the first airports in the nation to offer passengers the ability to buy carbon offsets in its concourses. The offsets would pay for renewable energy and power-saving projects that help cut down on greenhouse gas emissions.

The airport is soliciting proposals from companies interested in setting up and running an offset program in all three concourses. The offsets could be offered through kiosks, booths, computer terminals or other means.

It's all part of the airport's renewed

[rellimpank]

--most of the comments at the end are worth the price of admission--

[rellimpank]

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[Question Liberal Authority]

Carbon Dioxide is NOT POLLUTION. You might as well worry about the amount of salt that your in-flight meal took out of the ocean.

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off

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[squidly]

Maybe I’m in the wrong line of work. I think I could make some cash in this carbon credit business (if I can live with myself).

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Bill Ritter is truly a moron.

[saganite]

DIA is looking to become one of the first airports in the nation to offer passengers the ability to buy carbon offsets in its concourses. The offsets would pay for renewable energy and power-saving projects that help cut down on greenhouse gas emissions.

Who was it that said a new sucker is born every minute? If I told them I drove my Pious to the airport would they cut my fare?

[capt. norm]

If these liberals insist on taking a guilt trip, it should be at their own expense.

"Whoa.. dude, that wasn't what we had planned".

[Waco]

WHAT Bull sh-t, Ethyl

[Radio Free Tuscaloosa]

After eating airline food, it’s not my “carbon” footprint I’m worried about.

[elpinta]

Oh my, this is looking more and more like Kalifohnia!

[socialismisinsidious]

At this point they are offering passengers the ability to buy carbon offsets...the slippery slope and warming up the water under the frog...soon buying carbon offsets won't be an offer it will be a tax. This is too good a scam for the government not to get in on and do something to fix the, ahem, problem.

I foresee a future where you carbon tax will be figured out on your 1040...good old turbo tax will compute it after you tell the IRS how big your house is, how many children you have (already do that), what kind and age car you drive, what your AC usage was this past year, how many times you BBQed etc...They'll make it nice and easy: like they do with withholding.

[BallyBill]

Don't these people know that a Freepathon is in progress?

Send your guilt money to freerepublic.com

[longtermmemmory]

In Flight Suckers are born every minute.

Perhaps we should have a photo gallery of the idiots who pay this voluntary “idiot” tax.

[rellimpank]

—that is why I made the second comment to the article—

[richlk]

I’d love to do something with my footprint, and it doesn’t involve carbon.

[goodnesswins]

Well....FACEBOOK is doing something similar....as someone said.....”an idiot is born every minute.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956147/posts

[Kozak]

AAHHHHH!

[socialismisinsidious]

Good one.

I got a laugh out of this one too (for different reasons)
I DO believe in global warming and think that we need to do something about it. I don't, however, believe that this is the right approach. There is no control or accountability.

Pretty funny when someone who is most likely a Lib, Big Government person would complain about no control or accountability...sort of like big government!

[Lorianne]

How long will it be before these ‘offsets’ are mandatory when you purchase a plane ticket?

[rellimpank]

-—see the second comment to the article—

[steelyourfaith]

"Hot Air Cult"

~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~

[purpleraine]

One big volcanic eruption like Pinatubo or Etna will wipe out all the credits in 1000 carbon offset banks. Of course, then they can raise the fee. This is the future of taxation. A liberal paradise.

[Rocky]

Somewhere behind the scenes, Algore is planning the layout of his Carbon Credit Kiosks at DIA.

The world is full of idiots.

[FreedomPoster]

LOL! Perfect!

Could I get an extra helping of Smug with that?

[19th LA Inf]

I think I could make some cash in this carbon credit business (if I can live with myself).

It's here. I have a friend who owns 1100 acres of pine plantation land. Last spring he found a deal in which some broker working the Chicago Mercantile Exchange agreed to pay him for basically watching his trees grow for the next 30 years. He is restricted as to when and how he can harvest and replant, and is at risk to some degree in case some misfortune befalls the trees. This guy really has to run from money or it will fall on him. (BTW, he will be 80 years old next May.)

[CIDKauf]

Thank you! Ritter, Salazar, and all of the Denver/Boulder morons. Colorado is a purple state at best, as we watch the liberals tear down this wonderful state we live in. I have to buy a bigger crying towel every year. NO FLYING ever for me! (Hate it anyway)

[GATOR NAVY]

In Flight Suckers are born every minute.

P.T. would approve.

[boop]

Interesting that the Federal Trade Commission is “looking into this”. You’d think that paying real cash for something totally bogus like “carbon credits” would have gotten their attention a LONG time ago.

[boop]

"It's here. I have a friend who owns 1100 acres of pine plantation land. Last spring he found a deal in which some broker working the Chicago Mercantile Exchange agreed to pay him for basically watching his trees grow for the next 30 years."

What an absolute scam. The trees already exist and were already doing their thing. How does giving this guy cash "offset" anything? When God forbid a tree falls over or dies, or gets burned up in a forest fire, do the "investors" get their $ back?

[19th LA Inf]

Pretty much the way I see it too, but you would be surprised at all the other deals offering income to farmers in the name of land conservation, etc. At least this money does not come from our tax dollars via the Federal government.

[GATOR NAVY]

At least this money does not come from our tax dollars via the Federal government.

Yet.

[pepsionice]

Here is the gimmick. You open a stand at the airport....in every concourse....with some beautiful blond babe in a bright orange outfit. As she sells you the carbon credit...neatly packaged for $19.99...she pulls out a wet towel-let and moistens your face with “Burmese-glacier” water and then puts some Nepal coco-oil on your face to sooth you. After two minutes...you feel refreshed and pure again...thank the lady...and leave with a 3 x 5 card which indicates you own 1 percent of the daily production of carbon in that concourse.

You tag the guy....so that everytime he comes through this concourse...he has to return...for the same treatment...for $19.99. I think with three girls working around the clock...two to three minutes each...I can clear at least eight customers per hour per girl during a 18-hour day...which equals $3.1 million per year off that one concourse. Now I start to think big...opening in each concourse...at 40 major airports. After the airport gets their cut and the IRS...plus paying off the girls...I can clear $40 million a year easily...in the name of carbon.

[george76]

Thanks

[kittycatonline.com]

I think I now how the system works. Most folks have expected that vending machines are rigged to not dispense every so often. This could easily be turned into reality. Somebody buys a carbon offset from the Liberal Guilt machine, and it would send a message to a random soda machine in the airport to not dispense a carbonated product. This would prevent that product from being sold, thereby reducing the CO2 emission that day by one can.

Everybody wins. Liberal person pays to erase their guilt. Airport makes triple money (once on the guilt machine, once on the soda never dispensed, and once again when they finally do sell it, or on the one that angry consumer repurchases anyway). Less people end up drinking those bad-for-you sodas full of nasty nasty high fructose corn syrup (system could decide to not block purchases of diet cola, unless airport management is on one of those “diet sweetner converts into formaldehyde!” kicks). Hm. This sounds pretty plausible to me.

[sanchmo]

I didn’t fly to Tahiti today. I want to sell that offset of someone else’s air travel for a mere $750.

Tomorrow I won’t fly to the moon. I expect to get $100k for that.

The day after I won’t burn down the Amazon rain forest. I’m asking $1B for that offest.