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Toyota Prius: Offsetting your SUV

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    geneccc@gmail.com
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    Offsetting your SUV

    If you plant some trees, is it OK to drive an Escalade? The question
    isn't as silly as it sounds. People worried about global warming
    increasingly are trying to "offset" the carbon dioxide - the leading
    greenhouse gas - they spew into the atmosphere when they drive, fly or
    flick on a light. One idea popular with the eco-conscious is to have
    trees planted for them. You get to keep driving and flying, but those
    trees are supposed to suck in your trail of carbon.


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    Bill
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    Re: Offsetting your SUV

    com wrote: 

    I guess you could give those in prison for murder the ultimate carbon
    credit since they cut their contribution in half by killing another
    human being. If it was a young person younger than they, such as a child
    murderer, they would get more credit. There would also be a multiplier
    effect due to the resulting unborn if the person killed was prepubescent
    .. People like Saddam Hussein should have gotten enough carbon offsets to
    avoid the death penalty anyway since he eliminated over a million trails
    of carbon dioxide. Maybe we can look at people like Hitler, Stalin and
    Pol Pot in a new eco-light.


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    Michael
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    Re: Offsetting your SUV

    "Bill" <net> wrote in message
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    Ooh, you're bad! ;-) You really don't want to hear my view.

    The world is a wacky place. Amphetamines are notorious for destroying lives,
    but the one really useful thing amphetamines did for us was to destroy
    Hitler. I still shudder to think how close fascism was to sweeping the
    world.

    I love one of Robert Fulghum's quotes from a source I don't recall: "We
    usually know what we do. We usually even think we know why we do it. What we
    don't know is what 'what we do' does."

    Mike




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    earle
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    Re: Offsetting your SUV

    On May 28, 8:21 am, "com" <com> wrote: 

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    How about this: Plant as many trees as you can and drive a Prius.
    There is no excuse at all for anyone driving a Cadillac Escalade.

    earle
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    geneccc@gmail.com
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    Re: Offsetting your SUV

    On Jun 3, 3:32 pm, earle <com> wrote: 

    Many Americans want to drive an Escalade so they can be the envy of
    their peers.



 

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