Carbon Offsets

[CKaelin]

IMO it's very cool! The money is going towards renewable energy, not paying off your sins. (Religous BS) FLAME ON! It is really doing something to save the planet. Ontop of recyclying, hypermiling and conserving electricity. Every bit helps. The people I bought gifts for from this site will like the idea. It's gotta start somewhere...

I'm guessing those who posted not liking the idea didn't buy their YARIS for fuel economy.

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by CKaelin

IMO it's very cool! The money is going towards renewable energy, not paying off your sins. (Religous BS) FLAME ON! It is really doing something to save the planet. Ontop of recyclying, hypermiling and conserving electricity. Every bit helps. The people I bought gifts for from this site will like the idea. It's gotta start somewhere...

I'm guessing those who posted not liking the idea didn't buy their YARIS for fuel economy.

This one did buy a Yaris for fuel economy, and not as a gesture towards Gaia worship. That is precisely why I cited "indulgences".

You are completely free to invest in companies that serve renewable markets. You don't have to use a gimmick of "how much carbon you make" to make the investments. Just do it. It's your money, invest it as you value things.

The human raced lived on "renewable" energy for most of its history. Our lives tended to be short, nasty and brutish as a result. That is a historical fact, not some factoid that I produced out of Rush Limbaugh's drug addled bottom.

I work in the energy industry, not as a producer but as someone who helps to make use of energy more efficient. It's too damn bad that I am not at liberty to say who and exactly what I do, but rest assured that I do more to conserve fossil fuels in one day that most folks who buy Carbon Indulgences do in a year. That's not an exaggeration - the machinery that I make reduces the consumption of fossil fuels to the point that they pay for themselves in under a few years in terms of electricity costs.

I do not mind per sae this kind of exchange, but the idea of "Cap and Trade" enrages me to the point of near incoherence. That is in spite of the fact that such legislation will practically insure my future employment.

Gene

[PetersRedYaris]

Originally Posted by CKaelin

IMO it's very cool! The money is going towards renewable energy, not paying off your sins. (Religous BS) FLAME ON! It is really doing something to save the planet. Ontop of recyclying, hypermiling and conserving electricity. Every bit helps. The people I bought gifts for from this site will like the idea. It's gotta start somewhere...

I'm guessing those who posted not liking the idea didn't buy their YARIS for fuel economy.

Actually I did buy it for economy... I just have a problem with the people who are making off this scam, like Al Gore. I'm convinced he doesn't even care about the planet, but instead has realized what an enormous amount of money can be made off people’s fears. Watch out Bill Gates, your going to be passed up.

And it drives me crazy when people assume that just because your anti-carbon credits, your anti-save-the-environment too. Not all environemntal ideas are well thought out or well implemented...