Thread: Carbon Credits

I've been toying with the idea of selling off my excess carbon on E-bay for awhile now, just for the sheer absurdity of it.

btw, Do you happen to know where Pelosi is purchasing these credits from?

Originally Posted by Wooglin

...btw, Do you happen to know where Pelosi is purchasing these credits from?

Something called the Chicago Climate Exchange. Apparently they purchase carbon credits from suppliers (?) like Al Gore and resell them on the exchange, lol.

Only in America.

Hi Guys,
You fellas are on the right track but you are not quite devious,,,,err, I mean, thinking laterally enough yet.

I think I shall toy with the idea of creating my own carbon offset company.
I will set it up as a trust, which attracts minimal tax.
Of course the trust company will have to have a CEO (me), an administrator (me), a secretary (me), various other flunkies (me), all of whom shall have to be paid a wage and if there is anything left after legitimate overheads then my trust company will hire someone (me) to plant a tree or two, which the local city council will supply gratis because they are happy to do their bit to save the planet.
The land to plant the trees on is mine and shall be leased to the trust company for a fair and reasonable price of course.

Now all we need all do is hire someone to develop a nice web site (tax deductable) and invite everyone to send my company lots of cash so I can relieve them of their guilt.

This is not my original idea so Penn and Teller can explain it further for you.
Take particular notice of the woman with her own site called, Atmosclear Climate club.

Penn and Teller ******** being Green, Part two of three.



Cheers.

Originally Posted by captain

Hi Guys,
You fellas are on the right track but you are not quite devious,,,,err, I mean, thinking laterally enough yet.

I think I shall toy with the idea of creating my own carbon offset company.
I will set it up as a trust, which attracts minimal tax.
Of course the trust company will have to have a CEO (me), an administrator (me), a secretary (me), various other flunkies (me), all of whom shall have to be paid a wage and if there is anything left after legitimate overheads then my trust company will hire someone (me) to plant a tree or two, which the local city council will supply gratis because they are happy to do their bit to save the planet.
The land to plant the trees on is mine and shall be leased to the trust company for a fair and reasonable price of course.

Now all we need all do is hire someone to develop a nice web site (tax deductable) and invite everyone to send my company lots of cash so I can relieve them of their guilt.

This is not my original idea so Penn and Teller can explain it further for you.
Take particular notice of the woman with her own site called, Atmosclear Climate club.

Penn and Teller ******** being Green, Part two of three.



Cheers.

Giz a job?

Originally Posted by gunnut

...This is one good scam he has going.

I think we could extend it to other problems as well. We could sell acid rain credits, poverty credits, disease credits, overpopulation credits, and so on.

Poor countries would buy poverty credits to offset their large populations of poor people, countries in Africa would purchase malaria credits, AIDS credits, China and India would buy overpopulation credits.

Genocide, human rights violations, the list is endless. I think with a little creative thinking, we could solve all the world's ills.

Carbon credits are essentialy just a tax and totaly ridiculous - IF there a problem then we need another power source totaly and not trading for tax, the carbon credits are a way of governments imposing a greater tax and claiming to act for our benefit.

If there is a problem though an alternative energy supply should be able to run factories etc - note the nuclear fusion project in France etc...