Posted on 02/28/2007 9:16:10 AM PST by rface
You buy carbon offsets so that you do not have to reduce your carbon output. A carbon offset can be having a company plant trees for a price and in return you get carbon offsets. Another example are windfarms. They sell carbon credits -- because they produce no CO2 -- and you can buy them so that you do not have to reduce your carbon output.
It's a big scam and Gore buys them so that he doesn't have to do a damn thing. Us regular people don't have the money for this nonsense scam.
Here's more info: What is a carbon offset?
Why don't you just have ONE house like the rest of us?
Hypocritical Nardbag.
Carbon offsets are like the payments the elites made in the Civil War to buy someone else off to serve in the Union Army for them.
If you can pay some poor slob to use an outhouse instead of his heated and lighted and plumbed indoor one, you get credits so that you can have 8 bathrooms in your own mansion and not feel guilty.
Algore probably pays somebody to use corncobs so that he and Tipper can use extra soft perfumed toilet paper.
OMG!!!
Carbon Offsets sound like the 21st Century version of Indulgences.
What is a carbon offset?
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/What_You_Can_Do/carbon_offsets.asp
Lisa: We'll find a way. Mom has made so many sacrifices for us, it's time we gave up something for her. I'll stop buying Malibu Stacy clothing.
Bart: And I'll take up smoking and give that up.
Homer: Good for you, son. Giving up smoking is one of the hardest things you'll ever have to do. Have a dollar.
Lisa: But he didn't do anything!
Homer: Didn't he, Lisa? Didn't he? Hey, wait a minute, he didn't! (Starts choking Bart)
Geeze Louise! Wouldn’t a few Nuclear Generation Plants provide enough Carbon offsets for the whole country??
let's understand some more...
Wind power is subsidized by your tax dollars.
Truly "green" power is a total waste of water, which may become the world's most precious liquid soon. It also takes more energy to produce lots of ethanol - that's why it costs more.
Gore selecting "green" power just means the taxpayers are paying part of his bill.
1) Calculate how much carbon you emit through the goods and services you consume, plane trips, etc.
2) Purchase credits proportional to how much carbon you emit.
3) The company from which you purchased the credits will go plant a tree or invest in an alternative energy plant or similar to offset your emissions.
I have no problems planting my own trees or buying stock in companies as I see fit. But I expect to see a return for it - in my yard or in my portfolio. With carbon offsets you get nothing back but a warm fuzzy.
Yep, as someone wisely noted yesterday, carbon offsets are the modern equivilent of buying indulgences from the Church to absolve one of their sins.
Algore's excuse is just an example of "cap-and-trade" policy in action, meaning he can use all he wants as long as he pays an equal amount in "offsets". But he's still OVER consuming, which still means the coal is being burned to spin the turbines to drive his extravagant lifestyle. A typical example of a limousine liberal making himself feel less guilty when in actual terms, it doesn't amount a damn thing.
NOt sure here; but I think it goes like this:
On the macro-level, you pay a 3rd-world country;
On the micro-level, you could pay a wino or someone else living on the street.
I get the concept. It's like paying for someone to take your place in the draft.
I'm sorry you don't listen to Rush Limbaugh. Yesterday he explained this whole thing on the subject.
Purchasing carbon offsets are like the sinner in confession
who knows he'll be right back at his ways as soon as he
leaves the booth....JJ61
I have a question. If it is a scam; which most likely it is, and the liberals are buying into it. Who are the fools?
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