Paying to absolve the sin of emissions

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/15/7 | Jane Kay

[SmithL]

Cal Broomhead uses public transportation whenever possible to minimize the greenhouse gas emissions caused by driving.

[SmithL]

I’m not sure why, but “Indulgences” keeps popping into my mind.

[Pyro7480]

You mean the abuse of indulgences.

[kjo]

Exactly. You beat me to the punchline. What we need is a Martin Luther to step forward and explain that their are no ‘get out of jail’ free cards.

Have you EVER seen such nonsense?

[A message]

- or merely salve the consciences of people who don't want to give up the luxury of big cars, jet travel, overheated homes, blazing lights and gluttonous appliances.

Liberal guilt. The whip the leftists use to tame their followers.

[rickmichaels]

Broomhead? More like di*khead.

[Thebaddog]

Dude, you paid carbon offsets at the pump already for the additives and when you bought your car with federally mandated equipment that cut emissions. How far is too far? Loser.

[rellimpank]

--reminds me of a certain brother of mine (drives a Prius, keeps the house at 45F in the winter, etc.,) who flew to Peru-with wife-and then hiked the last few miles to Manchu Picu--

--I'd have to have been impressed if they had biked to Peru--

[Hessian]

I say we take advantage of their guilt and assemble “Conservatives For Conservation”.

CFC would then use donated funds to produce public service announcements that disprove the man-made global warming nonsense, while promoting good stewardship and common sense ways to save money on energy.

We could actually use THEIR money to pay for spots that work against them!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Cal Broomhead looks suspiciously like Ralph Nader, or is it just me?

[kjo]

I like it.

[RC2]

Since all these people are buying “Carbon Credits”, who is benefiting from all this money? Sounds to me like it’s just a place to put money to make them feel good about themselves. Money isn’t the answer to everything.

[johniegrad]

Cal Deadhead.

[Pete]

They still need to explain how moving money from person A to person B does anything other than merely redistribute wealth.

[Hack]

My son, say twelve “Hail Marys” and six “Our Fathers.”

[A message]

I have to get off my keister and start taking advantage of all the opportunities to make a fortune off of liberal guilt.

[abclily]

That sounds like a great plan! You can be the president of CFC. I want to be the treasurer.

[Erik Latranyi]

have to get off my keister and start taking advantage of all the opportunities to make a fortune off of liberal guilt.

Here's an idea: "Ethnic Offsets"

Everytime somebody uses "nappy headed" or "ho's" in a sentence, they need to buy an offset from you. In this way anybody could erase a history of anti-semitic living with a few dollars.

[Malone LaVeigh]

"It makes me feel good. It means I'm walking my talk," he said.

What a doofus!

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

CFC would then use donated funds to produce public service announcements that disprove the man-made global warming nonsense, while promoting good stewardship and common sense ways to save money on energy.

If conservatives talked a little bit more reasonable like this sentence, they might not be losing the argument so badly. There seems to be far too many on the right stopping at the first line when Americans really would like to stop financing both sides of the WOT.