Carbon Neutral?

[72sarge]

dude you rock! let al gore walk! the fat ba@#$rd needs to lose it any how! liberals want everyone to suffer! except them!

[goodsnservices]

To add to my previous comment: the investment in alternative energy development is a short term benefit, while the pressure to address added costs in the marketplace is a long-term benefit.

This scheme worked tremendously to reduce sulfur pollution (acid rain) in the United States, and it has an equal potential to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

[goodsnservices]

The point of carbon trading is to attach a monetary cost to carbon usage. This then becomes a factor in business calculations of bottom line profits, and becomes a pressure to reduce. In addition, in the short term, such costs underwrite carbon-reduction technology and alternative energy development, which then lowers the cost of alternative energy.

[Slackdragon]

Carbon offsets are a joke. They do nothing in the short term. It's insane to think planting a tree that will grow to maturity in 20+ years somehow makes what you're doing now okay.

Excellent point about the helecopters vs. taking the train, by the way!

[ellwyn]

this is right on the money. carbon credits are like a rich fat glutton paying poor people to starve so that he can gorge himself. people who support them are basically catering to rich privelege. the easier way is to charge for energy use on a graduated scale. no doubt, the rich would try to find some way around it.