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January 28, 2008
Congress Blows Our Money on Pointless Eco-Indulgences
Posted by Dave Blount at January 28, 2008 11:52 AM
Our obscenely bloated government expropriates enough of our wealth to significantly retard economic growth and diminish the standard of living we have earned. Adding insult to this injury, it often flushes the money straight down the toilet.
WaPo reports that last November the House blew $89,000 on the preposterous carbon offsets swindle in an attempt to compensate Mother Earth for its existence.
Some of the money went to farmers in North Dakota, for tilling practices that keep carbon buried in the soil. But some farmers were already doing this, for other reasons, before the House paid a cent.
Other funds went to Iowa, where a power plant had been temporarily rejiggered to burn more cleanly. But that test project had ended more than a year before the money arrived.
Even according to Joseph Romm, a leftist envirokook from the Center for American Progress who believes in global warming:
It didn't change much behavior that wasn't going to happen anyway. It just, I think, demonstrated why offsets are controversial and possibly pointless. … This is a waste of taxpayer money.
The frivolous eco-indulgences were part of the new Dem Congress's Green the Capitol initiative, which has also entailed the use of melting biodegradable utensils in Congressional cafeterias.
On a tip from mega.
