Guilt and Your Carbon Footprint

At least for now. 

Until too few people purchase them.

The lengths to which anthropogenic global warming advocates will go... sheesh.

I think we should make Al Gore buy a few.

It's too cold in Michigan so I do my best to help get it warmer. I'm not a hero, but I'm trying.

I saw this on the news a few days ago, and had a good laugh. But then I thought about it a bit more. Thirty years ago I would have thought that buying a small bottle of water for a $1 or more would never be possible. I still think it's a ripoff to pay that much for water (especially since most of it is just filtered anyway, nothing special), but many companies are making huge profits on people thinking they are getting something better than they could get themselves. My parents have a well and I love the taste of the water there when I visit and it's free. Me, I filter my own "city" water and it tastes fine. A few miles from my parents, a company sucks the same ground water out, processes it a bit, and bottles it.

This thing with the "carbon credits" IMO is starting off in a similar way as bottled water. But my fear is not the average person waniting to throw their money into some clever persons waiting pocket, it's that some do good politician is going to make me throw my money away on this in the future. This is really creating wealth from nothing, at least you get a little visible substance from the water you buy. How long before the privilege to breath tax kicks in? Sure, sounds crazy now, just like those vending machines I've seen selling 16oz. Dasani water for $2.50.

I see your point, Nitro, and bottled water is a mystery to me, too, except for specific purposes (sometimes you need a canteen).  But, so far at least, buying bottled water remains voluntary, and as I said, I'm all in for voluntary stupidity.

Except that as the anthropogenic global warming movement gains momentum (since we're brainwashing all of the kids in school), it will cease to be voluntary.

As for the 'privilege to breathe' tax, it sounds silly, but they're already talking about something similar.  Soon you may be forced to pay a carbon tax for having more than one child.

Gotta love the vultures (I suspect you're seeing the same ads I am).  Trading in carbon credits has the potential to make credit-default swaps look tame.

Every "industry" started out somewhere. Today's "green" environmental projects will become the hated, evil corporations of the future. Oil and electric companies were once lauded for "improving" the average persons life too.

Yes, once the 'green' industries take over, people will hate them because "Global cooling is going to kill us all!"

It's a great money making scam, sadly I am annoyed that I did not think of it first, all those guilt millions could have been MINE ALL MINE! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH {DR. EVIL LAUGH}

You're just mad you didn't think of it yourself!

That's it!

That is the way they get the foothold.  We will all be poor, starving and freezing, but not emitting any green house gases!