Pumps' Perplexities

In the controversy known as the Global Warming debate, the
words "carbon credits" mean TAX....Simply put, since you drive
a big SUV you have to purchase "carbon credits" in order to
offset the pollution you are causing and responsible for......

Well the purchase of "carbon credits" has started in Australia.....
A discount travel agency wants to add the sum of $260 to your
next round-the-world trip in order to offset the carbon dioxide
the airplane, you are flying in, will produce......Some company
has figured out that your flight will produce "x" amount of
CO2 and although it may cost $85 per ton to get rid of it, they
will only charge you $16 a ton....(How nice of them.)......

So your $260, of TAX money, will be given to a company
which will invest in ways to clean up the CO2....They really
are not inclined to plant trees because they are the least
effective.......Photosynthesis is not the way to go.......

Finally the news article noted that, "The consumer (us) can't
test the efficacy (efficiency) of an offset (where the money goes).
You really have to trust the person selling it (the carbon credit)
to you"........

Seems to me that the wagon with the "snake oil salesman"
has just rolled into town........Just "kiss" $260 goodbye.....Pumps