Terra Pass -- CO2 credits

[Ursidae69]

So I found this website from a bumper sticker I saw in Santa Fe yesterday. It seems to me that the concept is that you fund clean energy projects through the purchase of your Terra Pass thus off setting your car's CO2 output.

http://www.terrapass.com/

My take: I think funding clean renewable energy is great and I support that, but the whole notion of off setting your own CO2 is just a feel good sort of thing. Though, if the feel good thing brings in money for clean energy projects, I guess the overall outcome is good.

[crawler#976]

...sounds like someone figured out how to make a bunch of $$$.

[Kermit]

Well, that made me spit coffee out my nose. You have to be kidding me!

Their slogan should state "You can go on about your normal way of living, guilt free!"

Just another way to sell more crap to the trendy people.

[Ursidae69]

Well, that made me spit coffee out my nose. You have to be kidding me!

Their slogan should state "You can go on about your normal way of living, guilt free!"

Just another way to sell more crap to the trendy people.

Oh come on Kermit, you don't want one of thier bumper stickers on your vehcile??

[grouch]

I am currenty lookng for a job, maybe I should become a carbon offset broker? Funny thing I heard the other day, this carbon foot print offset stuff is suppose to go towards buying trees. Well the new info on trees above the equator is they actually contribute to a hotter envornment. How? I don't know but that is the new low down. This stuff is enough to make my head spin. It is just a modern day dooms day prediction with a fiscal twist.

[Ursidae69]

...sounds like someone figured out how to make a bunch of $$$.

Very true. While reading through their FAQ I read that they were a for-profit company. This concept seems better suited for a non-profit. If I were going to buy this deal, (which I'm not), I'd want to know how much of my dollar goes to the clean energy projects they support and the FAQ doesn't show that.

[Kermit]

Oh come on Kermit, you don't want one of thier bumper stickers on your vehcile??

Ummm...no...

I don't know about the rest of you. I am getting sick and tired hearing about being Green and Global Warming. It's all very trendy right now, where is this going to be in 10 years? Heck, as for being a trend, where's it going to be in 6 months from now!?

Sites like the one you listed, just goes to show how hyprocritical people are.

[DaveInDenver]

...just goes to show how hyprocritical people are.

They ought to put their money where their mouths are:
http://ultimateglobalwarmingchallenge.com/

[Kermit]

They ought to put their money where their mouths are:
http://ultimateglobalwarmingchallenge.com/

Ah....man Dave, thanks for the link!

Pretty much sums up how I feel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBCRStksqL0


So, I am driving the speed limit out of Crested Butte, and there is this guy in a Prius of all things, riding my ***, then procedes to blow out around me, and disappear down the road. I say to myself...."*sigh*, what a bloody hyprocrit..."

[Ursidae69]

Ummm...no...

I don't know about the rest of you. I am getting sick and tired hearing about being Green and Global Warming. It's all very trendy right now, where is this going to be in 10 years? Heck, as for being a trend, where's it going to be in 6 months from now!?

Sites like the one you listed, just goes to show how hyprocritical people are.

I agree that the site I linked is an exercise in hypocrisy, that is why I posted it, to spur discussion, but why are you sick and tired of hearing about being "green". I'm not sure what you mean but there isn't anything wrong with people not being hypocrites and living simpler using less resources. Sorry if you're sick of that.