Comments on: If you were missing the offset dissing… http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/29/if-you-were-missing-the-offset-dissing/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:53:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Ronald http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/29/if-you-were-missing-the-offset-dissing/#comment-6497 Ronald Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:03:11 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/29/if-you-were-missing-the-offset-dissing/#comment-6497 I can’t see the value in offsets. The reason we had pollution reductions from vehicle exhaust was because we had the clean air act of 1970 and others. These laws forced all vehicles (cars mostly, don't know about diesel) sold in the United States to have pollution controls added to the vehicles or reductions of some sort. If it was decided to only offer offsets of air pollution, a single person could buy a fog free car, but nobody else needed to have one, we’d still have high fog pollution levels from cars and other vehicles. It was only after laws were passed to require manufactors that they could only sell vehicles with pollution controls, was any good done. Any money spent on offsets because of some guilt of using carbon is less money that could be used in a propaganda battle. It’s the need to lower everybody’s level of carbon dioxide release levels that matters. Offsets are wasted money. I can’t see the value in offsets. The reason we had pollution reductions from vehicle exhaust was because we had the clean air act of 1970 and others. These laws forced all vehicles (cars mostly, don’t know about diesel) sold in the United States to have pollution controls added to the vehicles or reductions of some sort.

If it was decided to only offer offsets of air pollution, a single person could buy a fog free car, but nobody else needed to have one, we’d still have high fog pollution levels from cars and other vehicles. It was only after laws were passed to require manufactors that they could only sell vehicles with pollution controls, was any good done.

Any money spent on offsets because of some guilt of using carbon is less money that could be used in a propaganda battle. It’s the need to lower everybody’s level of carbon dioxide release levels that matters. Offsets are wasted money.

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