Today I heard a radio spot from Madison Gas and Electric. They are now offering a program where they claim that if you send them a little more money each month ("$6 for the average home") that they will see to it that 100% of the carbon your electricity produces will be 'offset." Does anybody actually believe this? Considering that my average energy bill is around $300 per month, they are saying that for a measley 2% more they can totally eliminate my carbon footprint. So why don't they just go ahead and do it and raise my rates 2%? Even the Citizens Utility Board would buy in to that. Certainly a 2% increase would br worth ending the "dire" threat of global warming. It would stop it instantly. Even conservatives like me would approve of it so we wouldn't have to keep hearing all that idiotic whinning about how we 're going to have to kill the economy in order to save the planet. And they'd have to stop giving Al Gore major awards (The only one he hasn't bagged yet is a Tony.)
My guess as to why this is being ignored is that most people instinctively know that you probably can't offset the carbon produced by $300 worth of electricity and gas with $6, no matter what you do with it.
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