May 17, 2007
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
OSLO (Reuters) - Big airlines should imitate a tiny, profitable Costa Rican company that invests in forest protection to help soak up greenhouse gases spewed out by its planes, Costa Rica's tourism minister said on Wednesday.
The Twin Otter is a very nasty polluting stinky aircraft, and the airline claims to have offset their usage of 480,000 gallons of jet fuel per year for only $60,000. (Thats 12.5 cents per gallon) So for 12.5 cents they claim to have offset the creation of about 20 pounds of CO2. The fact that this number is more or less in line with the other carbon offset scams doesn't prevent my bullshit detector from going off.
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