MLUG: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Al Gore's home
RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Al Gore's home
Email address obfuscation in effect -- please click here to turn it off.

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Hargus, Diana wrote:

I don't think we should use vouchers like these at all.

Why not? They seem to work beautifully.

In what way? Please define how they work beautifully.

They cause people to use less coal and more wind/solar power:

http://www.tva.gov/greenpowerswitch/


They are nothing more than a shell game;. For this example, let's use CO2 vouchers: they buy the voucher from some little country without massive CO2 production so they can produce ever larger amounts with no intent of cutting back their own production.

Apparently you are thinking of some other kind of thing. Here's the info about what Gore is using, called Green Power Switch:


http://www.tva.com/greenpowerswitch/green_mainfaq.htm

Mike

_______________________________________________
discussion mailing list
EMAIL:PROTECTED
http://mlug.missouri.edu/mailman/listinfo/discussion