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Please be mindful that although most statistics in this article may refer to pounds sterling readers in other countries will realize that the increasing costs of fuel from the pumps affects them too wherever they are resident.

We are now in mid 2008, last year’s predictions of high prices for foods, higher energy bills, rising fuel prices and general belt tightening have now been proven not to be scare mongering but real life fact; and all put together its not gone down at all well with us.

Typically, green represents the deadly sin of envy, but with the media’s help it now also stands for hypocrisy.

In this case, the hypocrisy is media promotion of buying carbon offsets – giving a donation to an energy-saving project as penance for guzzling gas or jetting off to an exotic location. With Al Gore, Hollywood and other celebrities leading the way, the media have joined the excitement, encouraging individuals and companies to offset carbon dioxide emissions.

“If more people do it over time, it’s a good thing,” said reporter Russ Mitchell during the ‘Early Show’ on CBS February 22.

Every day people do dozens of things that put more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This gas is the main perpetrator of climate change, yet activities like driving, heating your house, air travel, and electricity consumption, are hard to stop. Individuals that want to reduce their carbon footprint, the amount of carbon dioxide generated in a year, have the option of buying carbon offsets, often called renewable
energy credits, or RECs