Bullshit Governor Douglas

December 10th, 2007 carbon tax, climate change

Wood, corn, switchgrass ARE NOT CARBON OFFSETS! (from Sunday’s Burlingon Free Press)

If you’ve taken any biology (even 8th grade science should do), you have enough information for the following:

Carbon dioxide + water => + sunlight {Photosynthesis} = hydrocarbons + oxygen

hydrocarbons + oxygen = carbon dioxide + water + heat energy {Combustion}

That’s it! This is all you need to know and understand to reason through the carbon emission / carbon offset debate.

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