Offset your carbon emissions for $6.66 this Halloween

The Bay City Times ^ | October 27, 2009 | Jeff Kart

[BeAllYouCanBe]

If global warming scares you, think about spending $6.66 to offset your carbon emissions this Halloween.

The Delta Institute, which sells carbon offset credits to corporations on the Chicago Climate Exchange, is opening up its books to the public.

For $6.66, you can offset 1 metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions. The number 666 is usually associated with evil, but the money will do some good in this case.

“When someone plants trees or grasses, they absorb CO2 and essentially negate CO2 emissions somewhere else,” explains Todd Parker, an associate with the Institute in Lansing.

The offsets are generated primarily in Michigan and Illinois, from forestry and agricultural practices. Those include practices by dozens of landowners in the Saginaw Valley.

None of the credits come from projects in Transylvania, Parker laughed.

But purchasing the credits means there’s less credits to go around to corporations, he said.

That means, in theory, that companies will have to make more of their own reductions instead of buying credits to offset emissions.

[BeAllYouCanBe]

This type of stupid journalism is what scares me!

[BeAllYouCanBe]

BTW, if anyone of you wants a better deal this Halloween on carbon credits mine are going for $5.55 which is a deal nobody in the industry will beat!!

[the_devils_advocate_666]

I've been floating around this plan of mine to make money off these type of people. I have a field that is close to 20 acres. I'm thinking of selling people a "tree". I'd post a picture of the tree on-line and periodically send you updates on it's progress. Maybe it could even send you a Christmas, er, I mean Winter Solstice card. All for a low, low price of, oh, I haven't quite figured all the details.

[JPG]

I’ll buy carbon credits right after I contribute to the DNC. Might be a r e a l l y l o n g w a i t.

[GourmetDan]

"But purchasing the credits means there’s less credits to go around to corporations, he said. That means, in theory, that companies will have to make more of their own reductions instead of buying credits to offset emissions."

It must be very, very difficult to 'make' credits.

Shortages already predicted.

LOL!

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

I think that the 666 number is so appropriate. Kinda like when ALGORE stated that his favorite Bible verse was John 16:3.

[xjcsa]

The number 666 is usually associated with evil, but the money will do some good in this case.

Um, nope, still evil.

[posterchild]

The carbon traders came to earth just in time. Nature just isn’t smart enough to see a surplus of CO2 and use it to create more plant life. In spite of billions of years of history the process now needs to be managed by people of Al Gore’s caliber.

The CO2 absorbed by a growing tree will be sequestered until that tree succumbs to fire or old age in which case the CO2 will be released again. If you cut the tree down for timber and use it in construction, you will sequester the CO2 for a bit longer.

[kidd]

LOL.
Are there really people out there that will take this seriously?

“Here’s some money so you can plant things 1000 miles away. And I get to stick it big corporations, who will now have to find some other way to reduce emmisions that they don’t have to anyway!”

[reagan_fanatic]

I’m gonna offset their offsets in any way I possibly can.

Road trip in my SUV!

[BeAllYouCanBe]

Winter Solstice card. All for a low, low price of, oh, I haven't quite figured all the details

Simply demonic Devils Advocate!

[mdmathis6]

the atomic number of carbon is 6...probably why they emphasized the 6’s. Some young punk is also doing an “in your face” on Christians, poking at them to see if they’ll respond negatively!

[posterchild]

I’ve been thinking of something similar. Just because I think it is BS doesn’t mean I can’t deliver a product that someone else finds value in.

[Bryanw92]

Papal indulgences from the church of liberalism.

[BeAllYouCanBe]

In spite of billions of years of history the process now needs to be managed by people of Al Gore’s caliber.

Didn't kids used to trick-or-treat for UNICEF?

Perhaps the One-World Climate Change crew will make Halloween a collect for Al Gore holiday? Shake down the neighbors for cash to stop Climate Change??

[Codeflier]

Actually, I can beat that. For a limited time I am selling up to 1,000,000 credits for only $3.33 per credit!

[griswold3]

That’s a rip off!
Recently, my uncle bought CO2 for 20 cents a metric ton, calls it ‘insurance’. LOL
Maybe, since I’m in the transportation industry, I should give him a call.
I keep thinking the gov. can’t be that stupid.

[suthener]

For the hard sale, send them a picture of you with a chain saw next to the tree. Tell them you’ll cut it down if they don’t pay up.

[BeAllYouCanBe]

1,000,000 credits for only $3.33 per credit

Best offer of the week, $2.22 per credit and a copy of An Inconvenient Truth for any lot of 1,000,000 or more! Remember these are certified credits and are guaranteed to be consistent in quality and consistency. (Paid in Euros at a Swiss bank of my choosing.)

[DuncanWaring]

“When someone plants trees or grasses, they absorb CO2 and essentially negate CO2 emissions somewhere else,”

Until the trees and grasses die and rot (and they will, most assuredly), negating the negation.