Carbon Offsets In A Nut Shell

Huntington News ^ | 2/27/2007 | KeliKIlohana

[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 ...