In article , dpb wrote:


Overall, it again boils down to a compromising action that was able to
be enacted that provides both sides a little of what they wanted. Ugly
maybe, but that's essentially the way all legislation gets enacted.

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The other option is get them and then not use them. Retire them as it
where. I get a kick out Gore and others saying that it is okay for them
to have the big houses, etc., because they buy these offsets. If they
were serious, they'd buy the offsets and not use them so total pollution
would go down by that amount.
And don't even get me started on the fraud that is offsetting the
footprint by buying a tree somewhere.