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May 30, 2006

Distrust But Verify

It was interesting over the weekend, watching some of the Sunday morning methane-fest participants become ever-more fully invested in the rehabilitation of Algore. Watching the McLaughlin Group on Sunday, I was getting ready to turn a hose on Eleanor Clift, who rhapsodized on how his gaining weight has given him even more gravitas as he moves to the left. Thank heavens for Tony Blankley, who noted that Gore is, was, and shall ever more be the worst campaigner on the national political scene today.

But I was curious about this bit here: it's been noted for half a decade that "environmentalist" Algore flies about in small, fuel-guzzling, pollution spewing jets, and caroms from event to event in a motorcade of Chevy Suburbans.

He said he was "carbon neutral" himself and he tried to offset any plane flight or car journey by "purchasing verifiable reductions in CO2 elsewhere".
Verifiable...how?

And he "purchases" these reductions?

Isn't that sort of like becoming "fat-neutral" by eating three McDonald's double cheeseburgers, but sponsoring someone in running a marathon?

Seriously - doesn't this exactly confirm the conservative-populist saw about people like Gore and his former boss, the Clintons - "Reforming" things for the little people that they can't' quite be bothered to partake in themselves?

"Purchasing" reductions?

Hey, can I pay someone to not gamble, drink, bang hookers and shoot smack, so I can get away with it?

Posted by Mitch at May 30, 2006 06:55 AM | TrackBack
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Mitch prattled: "Thank heavens for Tony Blankley, who noted that Gore is, was, and shall ever more be the worst campaigner on the national political scene today."

Much better to be the worst president in modern history - that comes with a pension.

Posted by: angryclown at May 30, 2006 08:09 AM

What does Millard Fillmore have to do with anything?

Posted by: mitch at May 30, 2006 08:11 AM

Angryclown was considering only FDR to present, not 19th century presidents (though the parallel to Rutherford B. Hayes is an obvious one.) I'll take Buchanan or (Andrew) Johnson as the worst from the 1800s.

Much as it's difficult to compare baseball teams of different eras with today's (is Bush the '62 Mets of the presidency? Or the current Royals crew?), we'll need the perspective of history to judge whether he's the worst of all time. Still, it's pretty clear he's in the final four, with home-field advantage against Hoover.

Posted by: angryclown at May 30, 2006 08:27 AM

Emissions credits are available -- they are created when an industrial plant, for example, installs equipment to reduce its emissions below the level mandated by regulations. That plant owner then 'sells' those credits to other operators who have not reduced their output for whatever reason. It's a pretty slick program that encourages operators to make the capital investment needed to cut as far as possible, because they will earn a real return on it by selling the credits to those who can't or won't make a similar investment.

That being said, I have NEVER heard of credits being sold to anyone to offset things like plane trips. I'm not saying that I'd know for certain, but it's really unlikely that it wouldn't be pretty well known.

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