The Obama Inauguration's Carbon Footprint

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seolace of AL 9:31PM May 05, 2010

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soma pillow of MN 5:22AM July 04, 2009

I dont care! I was there :) some of that carbon heated us up in that cold :)

Larry of VA 1:16AM February 03, 2009

Sure the inauguration had a huge carbon footprint. One can only expect that something that big would. But how does Obama's inauguration's carbon footprint compare to the inaugurations of the other 43 presidents we've had? Calculate that and get back to me!

Anne of NY 12:57PM January 22, 2009

As can be expected, the liberalization of environmental policy goes too far. Heather of MA is correct in my estimation. The purchase of 'Carbon Offsets' by the elite and big business is just a means to an end. So long as they pay for carbon offsets, it's business as usual. They thumb their collective noses at those who can't afford carbon offsets and cleverly burden the middle and lower class to carry the balance of the load. We the Sheeple ought to at least to our part and pick up the slack for them right? At least the carbon offset con is fairly transparent to anyone who cares to think about it a little.
And as for the Methane side of things, I guess we need to buy 'carbon offsets' for our compost heaps, wet leaves decaying in our yards and agricultural fields left to regenerate the soil through decomposition of harvest by-products. Don't forget to send God a carbon offset invoice for the debris decaying on the floors of our forests and uncultivated lands. Just about everything organic and man-made generates methan gas during decomposition. Let's see how really stupid we can get about this stuff. Enough is enough!

Scott Adie of NV 4:34PM January 20, 2009

It is interesting that the majority of the private jets sitting in DC today, are owned by the same Hollywood elite who constantly tell the rest of us that we are destroying the planet.
But, they do make huge donations to the Democrat party, so their use of private jets and their carbon foot prints are quietly ignored. Let the common person in the street lower their greenhouse gas emmissions instead!
How dare we suggest that these elite individuals should actually alter their lifestyles. It's enough that they just tell the rest of us how evil we are, how we are destroying the planet.
If THEY can make US reduce our carbon foot prints, then THEY can keep their private planes.
They call that a "carbon offset".

Heather of MA 9:53AM January 20, 2009