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PENANCE FOR GAS GUZZLERS [Oscar goodie bag contained gift certificate for carbon credits]
New York Post ^ | February 27, 2007 | Page Six

Posted on 03/03/2007 5:21:12 PM PST by Doctor Raoul

HOLLYWOOD'S wealthy liberals can now avoid any guilt they might feel for consuming so much non-renewable fossil fuel...

This year's Oscar goodie bag contained gift certificates representing 100,000 pounds of greenhouse gas reductions...

It reminds us of the era when rich Catholics paid the church for "dispensations" that would shorten their terms in Purgatory.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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1 posted on 03/03/2007 5:21:14 PM PST by Doctor Raoul
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To: Doctor Raoul

What a bunch of hypocrites.


2 posted on 03/03/2007 5:22:28 PM PST by Jorge
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To: Doctor Raoul

Where does one obtain such a gift certificate? Maybe I can make my own and give them as gifts to people who I do not like. Kinda like George Costanza and The Human Fund...


3 posted on 03/03/2007 5:23:23 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Jorge

Hey buddy...
Can you spare a Carbon Offset Credit?

I need a cigarette...


4 posted on 03/03/2007 5:24:04 PM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: Army Air Corps

You may wind up in the women's prison library.


5 posted on 03/03/2007 5:25:43 PM PST by battlegearboat
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To: Jorge

Hollywood no less.....


6 posted on 03/03/2007 5:26:08 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: battlegearboat

Hmmmm, if it is one of those miminum security installations...


7 posted on 03/03/2007 5:27:44 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Doctor Raoul

I printed out my carbon offset certificate yesterday for 100,000 pounds. I slept like a baby last night. I will print more out for birthday gifts throughout the year. I love these things.


8 posted on 03/03/2007 5:28:36 PM PST by mickey finn
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To: Salvation

Ping


9 posted on 03/03/2007 5:28:46 PM PST by big'ol_freeper (It looks like one of those days when one nuke is just not enough-- Lt. Col. Mitchell, SG-1)
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To: Doctor Raoul

These had to come from the Gore group. What better way to advertise their "product"? These people "need" to purchase large amounts of carbon credis to offset their lavish lifestyles. I will bet that these carbon credits are going to be written off by Gore as advertising cost.


10 posted on 03/03/2007 5:33:34 PM PST by notpoliticallycorewrecked (California : home of the fruits, nuts and flakes.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Sounds like the perfect set up.


11 posted on 03/03/2007 5:35:15 PM PST by battlegearboat
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To: Doctor Raoul

It's OK folks, we flew here in a chartered 767 for only seven passengers, and we will be riding in seperate stretch limos to the 30,000 sq ft mansion for Vanity Fair's post Oscar party, but we have Carbon Credits!


12 posted on 03/03/2007 5:35:22 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Doctor Raoul

Obviously, idiocy knows no bounds.


13 posted on 03/03/2007 5:36:10 PM PST by doc1019 (If Obama is elected as President, we will become an “Obama Nation”.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

How many of these certificates does it take to counteract hot air generated by that giant gasbag Algore?


14 posted on 03/03/2007 5:36:22 PM PST by all the best
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked

I can see selling carbon credits as a new MLM scheme...


15 posted on 03/03/2007 5:36:47 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Doctor Raoul

How many carbon credits are a cross-country chartered-jet trip worth? The best way for these eggheads to help the environment would've been to stay home.


16 posted on 03/03/2007 5:38:40 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

Let them eat carbon credits...


17 posted on 03/03/2007 5:39:15 PM PST by Always Right
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To: Doctor Raoul

How do they figure out those damn things anyway? A gallon of gas weighs six pounds or so, but they say it creates like 100 pounds of CO2.


18 posted on 03/03/2007 5:39:41 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Jorge

Sounds like Gore was making a bribe to get his Oscar,indite him for bribery!


19 posted on 03/03/2007 5:40:47 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Always Right

Could this be the return of Green Stamps?


20 posted on 03/03/2007 5:41:16 PM PST by battlegearboat
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