Offset Credits “R” Us This business of “offset credits” has become most interesting. It is even more interesting now that Al Gore has managed to secure, or perhaps I should say, “procure”, a Nobel Prize. Interesting enough to consider a new line of business. My first awareness of offset credits was actually a creation of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church hit upon a money-making scheme that allowed indulgences to be purchased. Payment for these indulgences provided what the Catholics referred to as “dispensations”. A brief review of Canon Law reveals that a dispensation suspended a general rule of law....