Posted on 03/13/2007 7:23:14 PM PDT by LdSentinal
GREENSBORO, N.C. | Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Tuesday his campaign would seek to eliminate its contribution to global warming by becoming "carbon neutral."
Speaking to a crowd of college students at Bennett College, the former North Carolina senator urged all Americans to help reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
"It's time for the president of the United States to ask Americans to be patriotic about something other than war," Edwards said. "This is an emergency. This requires action now."
Edwards said his campaign will consult with experts to calculate its total carbon emissions - covering everything from his campaign travel to the energy used at his headquarters office in Chapel Hill.
Along with taking a series of steps to improve its energy efficiency, the campaign will buy carbon offsets, or credits sold by those who have reduced their emissions of carbon dioxide.
He declined to give an estimate of how much the offsets might cost, other than to say it would be "expensive."
"I didn't say it was easy," Edwards told reporters after speaking at Bennett. "I said it was important."
Edwards isn't the first candidate to adopt such a policy. Before dropping out of the race, Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack said his campaign would offset its carbon dioxide production by paying a Vermont company that invests in renewable fuels such as wind power. Edwards plans to work with the same company.
Edwards reminds me of John Anderson in 1980. He tries to be everything to everybody, with no direction. Total, 100% panderer. Instead of going where the votes are, he would wade into a cess pool to point out the pollution.
What's he gonna do? recycle his tampons?
You gotta be kiding me..
Edwards is a child trapped in a man's body.
Let's show some resppect. After all, he could be the first woman president....
So he would just buy carbon (pollution) credits? This cat owns about 150,000 sq. ft in living space for petes sake.
If he stopped running his campaign would be carbon free.
Might be a good time to find out if he's even a carbon-based life form...
Buying carbon offsets from Al Gore? :)
I guess he'll have to cancel his scheduled campaign steamship tour up the Mississippi.
Are you sure?
I'm selling carbon credits.They are junk, though, just like the whole carbon credit idea. But what the hell, I want to make money. This is my pet rock!
Where do I sign up to get paid by rich liberals for my low energy consumption? I purposely bought a Scion xB instead of a Honda Element because I wanted to save on gas. Thanks to the thriftiness taught to me by my depression era farmer grandparents I save and reuse everything I can. Shouldn't I be getting a paycheck from Edwards or Gore?
This is a parody, right?
So can /i set up shop and have people pay me for my carbon credits? Have yet to see this in entrprenuer magazine.
I hear it will 'content neutral,' too. :-)
Depends, do you have any Bush stickers on the new vehicle?
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