Two lawyers from the EPA’s San Francisco Regional Office (if they were any further left they’d be in the Pacific Ocean) have spoken out against the Cap-and-Trade bill wending its way through the Congress.
In an op-ed piece in today’s Washington Post the two wrote:
What guarantees failure of the proposed climate bills, however, are their provisions for carbon offsets, a concept not used in the acid rain program. Both bills allow all required greenhouse-gas reductions for almost 20 years to be met with carbon offsets rather than actual reductions in use of the capped sources. Offsets — considered indispensable to keeping cap-and-trade affordable — are supposed to be “additional” reductions beyond what is legally required. But experience with offsets in Europe and California has shown that ensuring real “additionality” is not an achievable goal.
Carbon offsets create the illusion of “additional” greenhouse-gas reductions, but we are just getting business as usual. Untrackable shifting of economic activity and perverse incentives such as these are inherent problems for carbon offsets and cannot be solved by certification or verification processes. Since the most flawed offsets will be the cheapest, they will also be the most popular.
In a related story, Nancy Pelosi has introduced legislation authorizing Congress to purchase carbon offsets (from Al Gore, who else) so the two attorneys can be burned at the stake.
Source: WashingtonPost.com
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021
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Sure, reuse, recycle, be smart about how you use resources. But carbon offsets are a total scam. Don't be fooled.
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I do have a question,,, what did she ware out of the restroom.. a depends undergarment or another strand of those unbelievable sexy Nancy beads…. Gag !
Nancy called me about this. I kept her on hold for 10 minutes. Ever since I got her made Speaker she's been acting like her poop don't smell. Let me tell you something. I know for a fact that it does. I went into one of the Member's Only bathrooms right after her, once. Never again! Christ, I nearly fell over! My eyes were watering. I had to go find another Member's Only bathroom.
When I finally picked up the phone, her panties were really in a bunch (not really, she wear's a thong). She immediately started ranting about “traitors” and “breaking ranks” and, “in my own District!”. I tuned her right out. My thoughts hearkened back to a simpler time, back in the 60's. Nancy and I were at a Dead show, at Golden Gate Park, tripping balls. We had this awesome window pane that I got from Kenny K.. I'm telling ya, ol' Nanc and me, we saw God that day. She told me later that he looked like me. I thought so, too.
“...and will you ask Rahm to put those two on Bo's enemies list?” she squawked into the phone yanking me back to the present. “Sure Nanc. Next time he calls I'll mention it to him,” I replied and then hung up on her.
Did I tell you about that week she and I “christened” every desk in the Senate Chamber? It was during the Christmas recces and...There's the phone...gotta go.
Red, I seldom comment on other posts here, but I hope if you're male, you might stay out of women's restrooms, if you're female... it's TMI. But I do enjoy you for the most part... But ending w/ "I gotta go" was curious & funny?
Everywhere you turn it seems like Al Gore is going to profit tremendously from cap and trade, add that to the fact that neither the left nor the right supports this horrible scheme, and we have to wonder why we are even still talking about it. Cap and trade is seriously flawed, it will not reduce emissions, but it will cost us millions of jobs and thousands every year in increased energy costs. Write your Senators at http://tiny.cc/er51K.