Carbon Offsets
I am fortunate that my home and office are in the same neighborhood and I am able to walk the three blocks from my home to work and back, including some days walking to a local store to pick up groceries or restaurant to have dinner. I do this about four days a week, depending on if I need my car to visit a client on a given day.
So I may be able to completely skip driving as much as four days out of the week.
I'd like to know what my carbon offsets are by doing that and I'd like to sell them to one of you polluters.
Answers?
So I may be able to completely skip driving as much as four days out of the week.
I'd like to know what my carbon offsets are by doing that and I'd like to sell them to one of you polluters.
Answers?
Labels: carbon offsets, los angeles politics, transportation
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 12/14/2007 09:56:00 AM
25 Comments:
i nike to work 3 times a weeks 25 miles one way. I'd like to sell my offsets as well....
bike to work......
Sell them to Monica Garcia.
1. Create a non-profit that sells carbon offsets.
2. Lease a jet.
3. Buy tax-deductable offsets from your company for your jet, your enegry-wasting Tennessee mansion, and your SUVs.
4. Tell everyone that if they really care about the environment, they should buy tax-deductable offsets from your non-profit.
Any questions?
And then get a Nobel Prize, whine about almost being President and being the one who deserved to be (well, given these wars, even a lead balloon might have been better after all), and be very fat, rich and smug.
Secretly, laugh at all the fools who bike in the cold and rain and wreck their hair and crappy jeans (because they could never afford ttwo thousand- dollar suits in the first place), or drive Priuses that you have to push up hill and cheesy electric cars that stall every hundred miles if you don't feed them.
1:25
I've owned a Prius since 2001 and I've never had to push it up a hill. It's the best car I've ever owned. I don't like Al Gore either, but you kill your point when you make a stupid statement like that!
Little Al Gore was clocked at 105 MPH in his.
The Mayor makes an excellent point, gents.
If you live in Santa Monica, and commute to Pasadena or even downtown, and generally drive 20,000 miles a year
but do so in a Prius
you are still using a heck of a lot of fossil fuels.
Telecommute. Live near work. Walk.
Simple solutions to a simple problem.
1:38: Prius person, you've never gone up a steep enough hill so you don't know. When I've had to follow one of those things up my hill I've watched it struggle slowly -- everyone races around them in their beamers and Rovers, sorry, but your cars just suck for anyone doing steep hills all the time, they look so sad huffing and puffing, doing all they can to avoid rolling back downhill.
Too bad your panties are in a bunch over the truth.
Higby the carbon you save not driving is offset by the methane you produce walking your fat ass and farting down the street. For Christ sake stop eating so many beans you Mexican lover!
Within no more than 2-3 years the media and the blowhard pundits will have moved on to the next catastrophe "du jour". Global warming will go in the ash heap of history with the coming ice age (early 70's), the heterosexual AIDS epidemic, the coming population explosion catastrophe, bird flu epidemic, mad cow disease, the obesity problem, droughts, earthquakes, cats and dogs and cats living together...yada yada.....I have a headache....but don't take an Aspirin, would never make it through FDA in 2007.
A Fat Burro like Mayor Sam needs to walk a hell of a lot more than just three blocks. Mr fat ass needs to walk at least a couple of miles a day to burn all that extra fat.
Speaking of Aspirin and the FDA, it's reported today on MSM that the cold medicines we're being sold (down the river) now, are ineffective: replacing the old ingredient pseudoephredine which could be used to make meth, with a milder version, means that instead of the 10 mgs. in current formulations we'd need 25 mg. for the crappy product to actually work. then, it might raise blood pressure to dangerous levels.
So you're all wasting money on this current crappy formula -- all so that some junkies couldn't make meth, we have no viable cold remedy. Brilliant and typical FDA.
I don't know what happens if you take 2-3 times the current dose, since there's other crap in these formulas, too.
These posts appear to be from the blogging burros, Mike Trujillo, Wet Spot and Jim Alger himself.
Carbon Offsets sounds like a politcian not wanting to ask a question. Al Gore invented this term and the internet.
look who's in bed!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZBPMKyyaBA
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If you're truly committed then "cease to exist". Then your "Carbon offsets" would be literal.
The above post is a bit morose. But, fat people need to buy carbon offsets. They consume more food and produce more heat than average.
Fun question, MS.
Theoretically, you still have nothing to sell because you continue to leave a carbon footprint. Plus, you have already set the level for baseline carbon for yourself with your good habits. Interestingly enough, you would now be penalized for having done the right thing before everyone else jumps on board.
Theoretically, if you could now go into the minus category of carbon production, then you would have something to sell to folks who pollute more than their usual baseline. This is where your pollution credits would come in.
Pollution credits have been gamed by European industry for about 20 years with no positive environmental results. Zip. Zero. They just figured this out in the last 12 mos.
It's a lousy system -- basically a shell game -- created by big business and well-intentioned enviros.
Isa need a me miz Jan Perry to stop me before Isa eat some more chicken n waffles.
Go get some free carbon offsets here:
www.freecarbonoffsets.com
Sam, if you're walking as much as six blocks a day, why are you still fat?
Is it because your day ends at a fast food restaurant? Is this something Jan Perry has to be alerted to? Your hood sounds like it has way too many places to eat and too many Big Macs.
Even if Big Macs actually have fewer calories, trans fats and cholesterol than an Olive Garden fettucini dinner. But that's not being "banned," she wants to get those kinds of restaurants. Where they give people all the pasta with trans fat margarine they can stuff in their faces. And sorry if this sounds racist, it's not, it's a fact that even the Beverly Hills Red Lobster is more than half full of black people, especially when they have those all-you-can-eat fried shrimp nights. And they sho ain't half black people in Beverly Hills. Wanna guess how many calories and trans fats those folks are puttin away after one all-you- can-eat fried shrimp meal, or at those chicken and waffle sit downs?
When I tried one of those I was the only woman there under a size 14, and my waitress said I was too skinny and had better eat up.
What does all this have to do with Mayor Sam not losing weight despite walking six blocks a day and eating a big meal afterwards? Well, not sure -- but it does seem to have something to do with carbon offsets because there's too much gas being made in his own body to have any left over to sell.
I find you all pathetic to make immature comments about Mayor Sam's weight. Not one of you feel the need to congratulate him on the loss of 150 pounds?? Jesus Christ, you're all mean. I hate mean people. Mean people suck.
You couldn't think of anything else to criticize him for? Policies? Ideas? Anything?
You are a loser and it is most certainly the same person over and over.
^ It's about time someone came to Mister Higby's defence! I agree, Mister Higby is a loser in this sense: he identified a personal problem and is now doing something about it. I imagine he feels better about himself, and has a better outlook on lide than say, four years ago.
How many of the lowlifes inhabiting this blog are willing to put it on the line and start losing weight too? Not many, I'm willing to bet.
As for my weight, I could stand to gain a few pounds...
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