Your Taxes For Carbon Credits?
by Kyle Evans–Carbon Credit Warehouse
Are your representatives using your tax dollars to buy carbon credits? Did they ask for your approval? Probably not.
A brief list of members, clients and partners of carbon trading companies includes the cities of Aspen Colorado, Berkeley California, Boulder Colorado, Chicago Illinois, Oakland California, Ashland Oregon and Portland Oregon. Others include King County Washington, The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania-Dept. of Agriculture, Vermont Dept. of Public Service, and the states of Oregon, Illinois and New Mexico.
This is not an exhaustive list, but it indicates an unregulated use of tax dollars as hidden subsidies for organizations, companies and endeavors that taxpayers have not been made cognizant of or asked their approval for.
Granted I am sure many of these organizations help with worthwhile projects, but if you are going to solicit public funds for stream restoration, wind farms and reforestation shouldn’t it be done openly and not under the guise of offsetting a carbon footprint?
Maybe the politicians writing our checks like to tell their constituents they are helping fight global warming by engaging in this activity. But if this is the case, why haven’t they told us; or asked us?
There are many more “clients” of the various companies offering carbon credits. These include many colleges and universities, and oddly, power companies.
The fact is, science has shown man’s contribution to CO2 in the atmosphere is around 2%. This means human caused global warming via CO2 is like a case of the tail wagging the dog, or more accurately a flea wagging an entire kennel’s worth of dogs.
Is this how you want your taxes put to use? If not, I suggest you contact your local, state and federal representatives. Ask them if they are purchasing carbon credits or offsets. Ask how much are they wasting or spending on them. And, ask them when they sought your approval for these hidden subsidies. Good luck with getting a straight answer.
If you’d like more on this, click on these links: Chicago Climate Exchange, Native Energy or Bonneville Environmental Foundation among others and see for yourself if a purveyor of your tax dollars has been a busy global warming flea.
The maddening part is none of them have purchased carbon credits from the Carbon Credit Warehouse. Go figure.
