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PENANCE FOR GAS GUZZLERS [Oscar goodie bag contained gift certificate for carbon credits]
New York Post ^ | February 27, 2007 | Page Six

Posted on 03/03/2007 5:21:12 PM PST by Doctor Raoul

HOLLYWOOD'S wealthy liberals can now avoid any guilt they might feel for consuming so much non-renewable fossil fuel...

This year's Oscar goodie bag contained gift certificates representing 100,000 pounds of greenhouse gas reductions...

It reminds us of the era when rich Catholics paid the church for "dispensations" that would shorten their terms in Purgatory.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: Doctor Raoul

So if I buy a "carbon credit" (and has anyone heard how much these cost???) then I am free to create even more greenhouses gasses? Am I the only one who thinks that these "credits" is just another scam with a scam?


21 posted on 03/03/2007 5:41:26 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Army Air Corps

I found my certificates on a thread called Carbon Offsets Cheap. Best thing I ever did. I'm a new man I tell ya. I did not calculate my carbon footprint but I think 100,000 pounds will hold me for the year. If not, I will print more.


22 posted on 03/03/2007 5:42:58 PM PST by mickey finn
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To: Army Air Corps
Your bumper sticker is ready!

More here

23 posted on 03/03/2007 5:44:13 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: mickey finn

Is it like getting divinity credentials from the Universal Life Church?


24 posted on 03/03/2007 5:44:59 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Doctor Raoul

Are they from Algore's company?


25 posted on 03/03/2007 5:46:18 PM PST by mlstier ("The Right to Privacy does not trump the Right to Life" -- Bill O'Reilly)
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To: Doctor Raoul

The libs and their reflections in the media are now going to play up this carbon credit [crude word for feces].

Liberals seem to live in a world of their own in which they keep repeating nonsense syllables such as "carbon neutral", "bush is hitler", "cheney is bad", "stole the election", "global warming", "Jesus' bones", "bla bla bla".


26 posted on 03/03/2007 5:46:20 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (shut up you liberals! [euphemism for sentence commonly abbreviated S T F U!])
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To: Doctor Raoul; Jorge; Army Air Corps; tcrlaf; mickey finn; notpoliticallycorewrecked; ...

Hey Doc, algore bought the carbon-credits from himself!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1793084/posts

It's a giant scam! ........... FRegards


27 posted on 03/03/2007 5:48:43 PM PST by gonzo (I'm not confused anymore. Now I'm sure we have to completely destroy Islam, and FAST!!)
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To: Doctor Raoul

How, exactly, does buying 'carbon credits' reduce pollution? It's interesting that leftists support a scheme which lets the wealthy to skate all responsibilty by buying what are essentially indulgences. For life of me I don't understand how the liberal house of cards survives all these inconsistencies and double standards.


28 posted on 03/03/2007 5:48:45 PM PST by Aikonaa
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

"The best way for these eggheads to help the environment would've been to stay home."

Not only for the environment's sake! Think of all the poor, hungry children they could have fed with the millions of dollars they spent on themselves for that one night.


29 posted on 03/03/2007 5:53:11 PM PST by LibSnubber (Liberal democrats are domestic terrorists)
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To: jiggyboy

Hmmm, there seems to be a market among self-flagellating lefties. I need to pay-off my student loan and lefties are stupid enough to buy these things...


30 posted on 03/03/2007 5:53:25 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: gonzo

Scams “R” his middle name …


31 posted on 03/03/2007 5:53:58 PM PST by doc1019 (Fred Thompson 08)
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To: gonzo
Yup! ManBearPig has it all figured out.
32 posted on 03/03/2007 5:54:41 PM PST by mickey finn
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To: Doctor Raoul; MotleyGirl70; Cagey; Mr. Brightside

Now I know what I'm gonna get everyone for Christmas next year! The "Human Fund" contribution cards were getting old anyway.


33 posted on 03/03/2007 5:55:28 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Duncan Hunter 2008)
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To: Aikonaa
It's interesting that leftists support a scheme which lets the wealthy to skate all responsibilty by buying what are essentially indulgences.

And it's really sad that they have influenced kids out there to ride bicycles thinking they're going to help polar bears from drowning.

34 posted on 03/03/2007 5:55:33 PM PST by somemoreequalthanothers (All for the betterment of "the state", comrade)
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To: SkyPilot

How much to nail Tanya Roberts without having to do more that a week in Purgatory?


35 posted on 03/03/2007 5:56:59 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: Army Air Corps
I can see selling carbon credits as a new MLM scheme...

It'll be the liberal ENRON.

36 posted on 03/03/2007 5:57:48 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: jiggyboy
A gallon of gas weighs six pounds or so, but they say it creates like 100 pounds of CO2.

LIBERAL MATH: 2+2=5, as long as you feel good about yourself.

37 posted on 03/03/2007 5:59:06 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

I can honestly see someone applying the Amway system to carbon credits. Wanna start a downline? :-)


38 posted on 03/03/2007 6:00:45 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: gonzo
It's a giant scam! ...........

ENRON for liberals.

It's not a movie, but Al Gore plays Ken Lay.

39 posted on 03/03/2007 6:01:03 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

I'm gonna make "Carbon Credit Wheels", modeled after Tibetan prayer wheels. You just give it a spin on your way out the door in the morning, and you're all set for the day! Two spins if you own a gas-guzzler.

(No offense to Tibetans...)


40 posted on 03/03/2007 6:01:11 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (L'Chaim!)
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