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This is an excerpt because the Seattle PI is reprinting a NY Times report. Looks like even the liberals are beginning to grasp that they're being taken to the cleaners by frauds like Algore.
1 posted on 05/07/2007 1:01:59 AM PDT by highlander_UW
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This is such a lamebrained idea I can't believe anyone has bought into it. Seriously, you're "buying" against this imaginary carbon limit? As if we can just calculate how much is an OK amount of carbon to have, and you "buy credit" from that amount? (I know it's a rough illustration but you get the idea.) How silly--who decides what is an OK amount of pollution to create, so that they can pay off their guilt at polluting just as anyone else does?

I can't believe anyone who's seriously "green" buys into this scheme. Only charlatans like Al Gore--"Do as I say, not as I do"--could go for this snake oil.

2 posted on 05/07/2007 1:06:06 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Anti-socialist Bostonian, Anti-Illegal Immigration Bush supporter, Pro-Life Atheist)
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4 posted on 05/07/2007 1:18:00 AM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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I have series guilt issues due to my only-ness. Anyone else, or is it only me?

In MD they have a place called Olney. They almost have guilt. Almost Olney only guilt. Good thing I'm around, or it would be only Olney.

The article says, "only charlitans like Al Gore...". Ah, so he is responsible! Maybe he will give me a discount on only offsets.

yeah, I know it's stupid. So is global warming. It's also 0420 and I'm fried from no sleep. I've only been awake, and I'm feeling guilty...

5 posted on 05/07/2007 1:21:44 AM PDT by 70times7 (Sense... some don't make any, some don't have any - or so the former would appear to the latter.)
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I think you’ve mislpaced an “only”.


6 posted on 05/07/2007 1:24:00 AM PDT by ConsistentLibertarian
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Not just carbon credits, the whole environmental movement is about assuaging guilt. When you are guilty you wouldn’t mind paying higher taxes knowing your money is being put to ‘good use’.


7 posted on 05/07/2007 1:26:03 AM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
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No, the liberals are beginning to grasp that in order for the concept of Carbon Credits to work, first they have to ration out Carbon Usage Rights.

For example, every person would be alloted x number of pounds of Carbon emissions, that must be presented every time you fill up your car. If you have any credits left over, you can sell them to someone else.

Then you have something tangible to barter.

8 posted on 05/07/2007 2:05:07 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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This will be the 21st century's equivalent to the Catholic Church's Indulgences racket of centuries past. These scammers are trying to frenzy the market like the Dutch tulip bulb mania, and then walk away with the billions in ill gotten capital scot free. Evil evil people who are destroying the lives of billions and killing millions of third world people to follow their scheme to it's logical conclusion, complete collapse of the carbon trading market, and discrediting of anything and everything "global warming" related in the slightest.

9 posted on 05/07/2007 2:15:17 AM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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Algore - Ignorant, stupid, or liar?

Ignorant means that someone does not know something. This could mean they did not have access to the truth. It’s not realisic to think that Algore has not had access to the truth. There is a great deal of information about the truth of “carbon credits” available.

Stupid means that someone does not have a reasoning ability. This can happen when someone is blinded by idealogy.

A liar is someone who says things they know are not true.

Algore - Ignorant, stupid, or liar?


10 posted on 05/07/2007 2:29:35 AM PDT by preacher (A government which robs from Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.)
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Al takes a truth serum:

"The earths atmosphere is only made up of 0.0383% CO2 which you can literally call 'zero point zero'. On top of that, 2/3rds of the earth is covered with water of which contains algae and other life forms that suck up CO2. Add on top of that all the plant life that that covers almost all of the land on earth that sucks up CO2. So as you see, all this talk by me saying that man made CO2 emissions will destroy the earth is complete and utter bullsh*t."

14 posted on 05/07/2007 2:50:01 AM PDT by Screamname (The only reason time exists is so everything doesn`t happen all at once - Albert Einstein)
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The Kyoto accord was just another name for Carbon Credits. It was an International scam that the world almost fell for a scam that would ahve ruined us had George Bush not realised it for what it was.


16 posted on 05/07/2007 3:44:31 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
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IMHO, I’ve always assumed that “carbon credits” are code for how an AL Gore presidency intends to deal with the consequences of pulling out of Iraq.......


17 posted on 05/07/2007 3:55:17 AM PDT by mo
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I’m planting a couple of trees and sprucing up the yard this year. Can I pick up a standard Carbon Credit Form at my local Home Depot....I’ll be sure to include the receipt and any bar codes necessary to get my “credit”.

The hubby’s looking at coveted John Deere lawn mower (gas guzzler model) and the credit would go a long way to fulfill his dreams. He even promises to sell the grass cuttings to help develop green fuel to fill up the Hummer.


20 posted on 05/07/2007 4:06:05 AM PDT by not2worry ( What goes around comes around!)
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Shocking, just SHOCKING I tell you!

Liberals are idiots.


21 posted on 05/07/2007 4:07:54 AM PDT by Muzzle_em (A proud warrior of the Pajamahadeen)
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Future historians may look at such inanities as “Carbon credits” and regard our era as one where insanity was the order of the day.


23 posted on 05/07/2007 4:24:01 AM PDT by RoadTest (Get our Marines out of Pendleton's Kangaroo court!)
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Carbon credits.... can I use these at ANY mall? I love shopping.


25 posted on 05/07/2007 4:33:21 AM PDT by brwnsuga (Proud, Black, Conservative!!!)
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I think conservatives should get behind this idea and become the primary carbon offset providers. I can’t think of a better way to redistribute the wealth of some of these econuts that have more money than sense.


26 posted on 05/07/2007 4:39:29 AM PDT by Jagman (I drank Frank Rabelais under the table!)
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For a thorough de-bunking of Al's root cause of global warming see this link to The Faithful Heretic - a great read from an unimpeachable source - with the added bonus that this article emerges from that bastion of liberals, the UW-Madison.

http://www.wecnmagazine.com/2007issues/may/may07.html

27 posted on 05/07/2007 4:44:16 AM PDT by badgerlandjim (Hillary Clinton is to politics as Helen Thomas is to beauty)
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My dogs have substantially reduced their intestinal emissions since I adopted more effective methods to keep then out of the used kitty litter. Because if this, I’m prepared to sell dog gas carbon credits to anyone who wants to buy them from me at $100 dollars apiece.


30 posted on 05/07/2007 5:03:39 AM PDT by libstripper
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I have a very special deal going for guilty-minded environmentalists.

This is a picture of a white cedar tree growing on my property which I will KILL unless you buy the carbon offsets from me!

So this isn't just about some anonymous carbon credits anymore, this has just become personal!

Just look at this magnificent, mature white cedar! This year it's trunk's girth will exceed 8 inches, meaning... THE TIMBER COMPANY WANTS IT!

Sooooooooooo..... this is kind of all up to you.

This wonderful tree can spend the next decade scrubbing the enviro-toxins out of the air because YOU saved it, or it can wind up as plywood by July!

I'm serious. I've done this before. Don't call the police or FBI.

31 posted on 05/07/2007 5:22:26 AM PDT by Kenton (All vices in moderation. I don't want to overdo any but I don't want to skip any either.)
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34 posted on 05/07/2007 6:30:33 AM PDT by Gritty (Get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion and stop the mythic fantasies-Michael Crichton)
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