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January 22, 2008
Denver Airport Hawks Carbon Offsets
Posted by Dave Blount at January 22, 2008 9:17 PM
The preposterous scam by which guilty moonbats buy eco-indulgences, aka "carbon offsets," to justify their participation in the modern world has now been embraced by Denver International Airport:
DIA is looking to become one of the first airports in the nation to offer passengers the ability to buy carbon offsets in its concourses. […] Under the plan, interested passengers would provide the details of their flights — such as the cities involved and the number of stops — to determine how much in offsets would erase their "carbon footprint" or amount of carbon emissions. […] An individual passenger could pay anywhere from a few bucks to more than $50 to offset their "share" of the carbon emissions of their flights.
The point of course is to exploit liberal idiocy for cash:
The airport would get a share of the money collected: 10 percent of the first $1 million, 12 percent of the next $1 million and 14 percent of sales above $2 million, according to airport documents.
At least the global warming hoax has been good for some laughs. But Slapstick Politics asks an ominous question:
Will there come a time when, in addition to taking off your shoes and showing ID, a flyer must also present "proof of offset" in order to make their flight?
A similar idea has already been proposed in all seriousness in Britain. The "carbon credit card" would electronically track whether you had used up your bureaucratically allotted ration of harmless carbon emissions.
