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Last week on my way back from Alaska, I had a layover in Seattle. There was a counter in a waiting area that had a spiel about how you could send $2 to this website and the money would be used to offset your carbon footprint: How do they do that? Plant trees? Hold their breaths? Puncture the tires on Leonardo DiCaprio's private jet? Just wondering. | ||
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Certified All Positions |
Basically, there is now a market for "carbon credits. It's not BS, but it's not that straightforward either. https://www.epa.gov/greenpower...gy-certificates-recs Arc. ______________________________ "Like a bitter weed, I'm a bad seed"- Johnny Cash "I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel." - Pee Wee Herman Rode hard, put away wet. RIP JHM "You're a junkyard dog." - Lupe Flores. RIP | |||
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| Freethinker |
In other words, if we want to contribute as much carbon to the atmosphere with our lifestyles and warm the planet as much as we want, all that’s necessary is to be rich—is that it? That seems very … unprogressive. What don’t I understand correctly? (I read the information on that EPA site and although I’m not the dullest knife in the drawer I didn’t follow it very well.) ► 6.4/93.6 ___________ “We are Americans …. Together we have resisted the trap of appeasement, cynicism, and isolation that gives temptation to tyrants.” — George H. W. Bush | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Straight up scam. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Info Guru |
They are paying for one of Al Gore's multiple mansions or private jets. Several companies making bank cashing in on liberal guilt or mandated government 'carbon credits'.  Al Gore’s Carbon Empire: Cashing in on Climate Change “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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I should probably been more specific: They were saying my $2 would offset my jet travel. I don't think it had anything to do with what's shown on the EPA website, which seems specifically targeted at electrical energy. | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Yeah, someone is trying to make money off of travelers' climate guilt. Or in other words, someone is trying to scam money from morons. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
Totally a scam. | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Hey, give someone else money when you do something that they aren't remotely involved with. Seems legit....  NOT. It's complete bullshit. | |||
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Recondite Raider |
They keep trying to pass "Cap-'n-Trade" here in Oregon which is basically carbon credit taxes. One of the effects if this passes will be to put over half the logging companies out of business due to the requirements to have newer equipment. __________________________ More blessed than I deserve. http://davesphotography7055.zenfolio.com/f238091154 | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
By the way, to the OP: https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...0601935/m/8191014801 ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Without even knowing the entire story; Its all BULL SHIT! Anything the democrats push is a SCAM, FAKE, LIE and FRAUD! They want you to offset your air travel carbon? Even though it was only $2.00, hopefully you were not gullible enough to give them any money? CO2 is a natural, normal atmospherific gas and plant food. Only low IQ, moronic, SJW fall for this crap. | |||
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Is this the same CO2 they put in Carbonated Beverages? Cause if it's so dangerous why do we drink it for fun? ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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| My other Sig is a Steyr.  |
Carbon credits work this way: You pay the carbon credits so the government official can buy some carbon to put on his wife's ring. | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
Carbon credit = snake oil Q | |||
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safe & sound |
They were definitely attempting to scam you. $2.00 for a carbon credit? I sell carbon credits for $1.50. | |||
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Fourth line skater |
My sister in law works for a company in Boulder that has something to do with carbon credits or investments. She been there for over 10 years. I've never asked her how it works. I remember telling my wife she should look for another job because this wasn't going to last long. So far I've been proven wrong. _________________________ OH, Bonnie McMurray! | |||
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| Ignored facts still exist |
And that's just a start. Nobody knows how much will be added to the price of a gallon of gas, but estimates are between 23 cents a gallon added to fuel prices in 2021, increasing to 73 cents a gallon by 2030 and $3 a gallon by 2050. Their "goal" is to have all cars in the state be electric by 2050. Think about that for a moment. Where are you getting all these batteries to run these cars, and where will the power to charge these batteries come from? Lawmakers know these issues --- they just want to create a problem so they can swoop in and take control of all transportation. . | |||
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| It's not easy being me |
Damn, how do you sleep at night? I sell carbon credits for 99 cents!!  _______________________________________ Flammable, Inflammable, or Nonflammable....... Hell, either it Flams or it doesn't!! (George Carlin) | |||
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A Grateful American |
I'll stick with something tangible, like Bitcoins, or Tulip futures... "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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