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 Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:44 pm Post subject: Al Gore buying much-hyped "carbon offsets" from HIMSELF! |
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Al Gore buying much-hyped "carbon offsets" from HIMSELF!
Gore and energy, Kerry and SUVs, Soros and Halliburton...will you darn
conservatives quit pointing out our hypocrisy! -sincerely, the Left
By Jeff Emanuel
Remember those highly publicized "carbon offsets" which AlGore is supposedly
purchasing to counter his $2,000.000 per month utility bill (and his use of
20 times the amount of energy per year just in his own home that an average
American uses)?
Well, it turns out that the person that AlGore is getting these "offsets"
from is none other than...well, AlGore.
Specifically, Gore is apparently purchasing these "offsets" from a company,
called Generation Investment Management, which he co-founded, and for which
he serves as chairman.
Furthermore, it appears that GIM doesn't even sell carbon offsets to the
public - it only provides them to its owner, who happily pays himself for
them while continuing to consume 20 times the energy that a "normal" person
does.
By the way, the NYT has an article expressing skepticism about "so-called
carbon offsets" (which Ecotality nicely defines as "a payment someone makes
to an environmentally friendly entity to compensate for personally using
non-green energy") and their effectiveness, postulating than not only are
most offsets "ineffectual," but that all these modern-day indulgences really
are is "a way for the self-indulgent to continue polluting without making
any changes to their habits."
If you read that as "it's a scam" too, then we're on the same page. Or, as
Ecotality put it, "The words "snake oil" come to mind..." |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:35 pm Post subject: Re: Al Gore buying much-hyped "carbon offsets" from HIMSELF! |
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"Harry Dope" <IgnorantLiberal@aol.com> wrote in message
news:45f02f50$0$28104$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
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Al Gore buying much-hyped "carbon offsets" from HIMSELF!
Gore and energy, Kerry and SUVs, Soros and Halliburton...will you darn
conservatives quit pointing out our hypocrisy! -sincerely, the Left
By Jeff Emanuel
Remember those highly publicized "carbon offsets" which AlGore is
supposedly purchasing to counter his $2,000.000 per month utility bill
(and his use of 20 times the amount of energy per year just in his own
home that an average American uses)?
Well, it turns out that the person that AlGore is getting these "offsets"
from is none other than...well, AlGore.
Specifically, Gore is apparently purchasing these "offsets" from a
company, called Generation Investment Management, which he co-founded, and
for which he serves as chairman.
Furthermore, it appears that GIM doesn't even sell carbon offsets to the
public - it only provides them to its owner, who happily pays himself for
them while continuing to consume 20 times the energy that a "normal"
person does.
By the way, the NYT has an article expressing skepticism about "so-called
carbon offsets" (which Ecotality nicely defines as "a payment someone
makes to an environmentally friendly entity to compensate for personally
using non-green energy") and their effectiveness, postulating than not
only are most offsets "ineffectual," but that all these modern-day
indulgences really are is "a way for the self-indulgent to continue
polluting without making any changes to their habits."
If you read that as "it's a scam" too, then we're on the same page. Or, as
Ecotality put it, "The words "snake oil" come to mind..."
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Since Bush I masde emissions trading official government policy in 1990,
it's hard to see this as a dem problem.
So, where is the part aboout how Gore's offsets are actually fake? Seems
to be missing. lol |
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