Google rocks my socks.

So I get an email about a meeting that I'm thinking, "i'm never going to remember this." I look to the side and it says "add to calender". I think, "ok, i've seen this before. Lets see how it does...I'll probably have to enter all the info by hand. But, whatever." Me clicks. I'm amazed. Not only did they get the discription and time correct... they even got the correct place.

Now if it could only go to the meeting for me.

*belch* ("excuse me?")

I noticed a couple months ago that my carbon footprint was smaller than the national average. In jest, I suggested I needed to burn more plastic. Now I realize I just need to grill more. Apparently some concerned citizens are making sure there is plenty of CO2 in the atmosphere (since CO2 levels are the lowest they've been a while). Is it obnoxious? Absolutely. Is it obnoxious to cap and trade carbon? Even more so. So if it takes a few absurd people to wake normal people up the absurdity that goes on everyday (and is getting worse), then I say, "more power to them." Cap and trade is supposed to raise billions, if not trillions, for the government to fight CO2 emissions. Three trillion is the actual projected number. Unfortunately, the government has all ready ear-marked seven trillion in spending. But doesn't cap and trade only affect industry? So far. However, when it becomes more expensive to make/transport everything in the States the consumer suffers the most. Then we have the perfect makings for stagflation... though hopefully the government will nationalize everything to keep that from happening. It worked for the Russians.
The BBC scared me with this article. Saying that carbon trading might need to come down to the individual level. So that means if I like to BBQ a lot or take a cross country road trip I would have to buy some credit from my grandma who never leaves the building she lives in.
PS- I hate to point out that Kyoto doesn't even apply to largest polluter in the world: China. They probably don't care about carbon credits either. But we're too busy taxing our own industry to care. Looks like the only one benefiting is the World Bank.
So. Will I refuse to recycle and just throw away beer bottles and plastic I've been accumulating? No. That's dumb. Recycling is always a good idea when it does more good than harm. Unfortunately for me, if gas goes up a buck fifty because of cap and trade, I am not going to be able to afford any more beer. ...and that's something our Founding Fathers would not have been cool with.