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  Comment is free: Down with green taxes 

  http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/alex_singleton/2007/11/down_with_green_taxes.html

  What an incredibly stupid idea. "Carbon offsetting" is a scam -depending on the calculations of people who have no incentive to get their answers right so that they can print "indulgences" for sinners. ... This proposal wopuld make the purchasing of such indulgences, from the likes of Mr A Daley, compislry (which destroys the moral "benefit") & give the profits to Daley (rather than make it a source of revenue for the current church of eco-fascism (though I acknowledge the Saint Al of the Convenient Lie owns an indulgence selling company). The fact is we are not facing catastrophic warming or indeed any of the other "environmentalist" catastrophes we have been promised over the last 4 decades - live with it & get some more interesting "sins". [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment. ] What about a tick box on your electricity bill. You get to tick Green, fossil or nuclear. Electricity is allocated on the basis of the box you tick. If there is not enough wind/solar and you ticked the gr   [More...] [Less...]

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