Buy a Bug and Volkswagen will foot the bill for one year’s worth of carbon offsets thanks to a new partnership with carbonfund.org. In fact, buy any VW vehicle from now until January 2, 2008 and you’ll reap the benefit, with contributions going toward the reforestation of the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (aka the VW Forest.)
For existing Volkswagen drivers, the VW Carbon Neutral Project will help make it easier to determine carbon output and offset it quickly. To get the complete low-down on VW and their green efforts,
click here.
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I write about this a lot on my site that covers global warming (http://www.globalwarming-factorfiction.com) and I am typically very skeptical of carbon trading schemes.
P.T. Barnum supposedly said that there was a sucker born every minute. Sometimes, when I read about carbon credits, I am not sure who the sucker is – the person buying, the person selling, or the general public for thinking it is helping!
In order for credits to be feasible and to be more than a “feel good” gesture, we need solid accounting, accountability, and penalties. We have none of that now and this article makes this painfully clear. We cannot allow credits to be used for minor contributions to a project. The credit must go to the cost of reducing the greenhouse gas.