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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[<br>We're not sure what impact those had on climate change, but at the rate rabbits multiply, we think Volkswagen might make a bigger impact on the offset front.<br><br>  Indians and Chinese are multiplying faster than rabbits. Hope VW can do something about it. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Avinash machado]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 8:28AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA["Indians and Chinese are multiplying faster than rabbits. Hope VW can do something about it."<br><br>Bigot! Perhaps you should go the way of Hitler.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barney]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 12:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[You left out the trailer trash Americans with 10 kids on welfare.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Corey L]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 12:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[How is that bigotry, again?<br><br>1 billion people having 1 kid each is a lot more than Americans having 2.5 children. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Don]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 3:10PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[Don-We american fold can now make half a kid? Tell me how!!! <br><br>(sarcasm)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Phillip]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 4:23PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[The simple fact is Chinese and Indians are adding to their population (in raw numbers not necessarily growth rate) than anyone. I don't know how fast the rabbit population is growing so I can't comment on that.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Louis Duran]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 6:19PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[Check your math:<br><br>You need to have 3 kids to increase the population.<br><br>You + spouse make 1 kid.  You both die.  Net is -1<br>You + spouse make 2 kids.  You both die.  Net is 0<br>You + spouse make 3 kids.  You both die.  Net is +1<br><br>Simple math really.  Nothing racial.  Just look at the average birth rates of countries and it's easy to figure out.<br><br>However, the whole "Global Warming" thing is 1/2 farce, 1/2 science.  We have been warming since the Ice Age and may be part of a normal cycle of heating and cooling of the Earth.  However, that wouldn't make good TV, the Global Warming crisis does.<br><br>I should have been dead from the hole in the Ozone Layer.  Yet that magically regenerated.  Even though the science never really proved that CFC's made it that far.<br><br>We should be dead from all the mercury and toxic waste crisis's from long ago.  Yet we are living longer than ever.<br><br>Oh well, enough - the whole thing makes me sick - we are being duped and yet nobody even dares question it.  If we do, they are called traitors and other nasty things.  Sound familiar?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ItGuy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 9:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is a great idea and something that should be included with the cost of every car, if not given for free as in this case.<br><br>Plus, it makes VW look good.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[nick]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 8:42AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[I saw a car yesterday with a carbon offset bumper sticker on it.  I don't recall if it was a VW.  Anyway, great idea!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Galley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 10:14AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[No. I'd much rather have that money go towards lowering the price of the car instead of buying into some insane environmental hoax. People who are genuinely afraid of global warming are the biggest bunch of media sheep around.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 10:17AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[It's only a good idea if someone "feels" so good about it they decide to buy a VW.  As far as affecting climate change it's a farce.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave-in-PA]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 9:11AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[It is a farce. Many companies have ads to promote their product and this is just one more way. "We'll plant a tree IF you buy our product"  That ploy has been used before. It is good that some benefit (more trees) will result but it still is a marketing ploy.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barney]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 12:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[Saab and Subaru already carbon offset every vehicle they make, for free; not just the vehicles they sell. Subaru even has a zero landfill policy to boot.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[James Sonne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 9:12AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[Meh, Carbon offsets are a load of bull and just a way for people to make themselves feel better/ look like they care about the environment. This is nothing but a cheap marketing ploy by VW.<br><br>On a side note, isn't that a Jetta on the page, not a GTI?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Seminole]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 9:24AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'd imagine the picture on the widget on their site stays the same regardless of which car you pick from the dropdown menu.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 12:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[Its not much, but kudos to them for doing anything.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[andrew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 9:30AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[There's a sucker born every minute...if VW had been on my shopping list, it wouldn't be anymore. <br><br>The poor, pompus fools who buy into this garbage will probably live their entire lives believing that their VW Golf "carbon offset" actually "made a differecne". 50 years from know when the world is just as hot and just as cold as it is now they'll thank themselves.<br><br>To all of you self-important worry-warts out there: Breathe easy, and let out a good huff of carbon dioxide. It's the lifeblood of green plants in our world.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill P.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 9:48AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[Look for this concept to be picked up in some way by the politicians as a new way to tax the car buying public.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[JC3]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 9:58AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[What a big heaping steamy load of horse crap.  <br><br>If you buy into this (whether you're an environmentalist or not) you're a friggin' fool.  Carbon offsets do NOTHING but line peoples pockets.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rboyett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 10:18AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on VW will carbon offset what it sells for one year]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/03/vw-will-carbon-offset-what-it-sells-for-one-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[It would be useful to have a thoughtful discussion about carbon offsets.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven T.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 3rd 2007 10:33AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>