Offsetting your SUV

I guess you could give those in prison for murder the ultimate carbon credit since they cut their contribution in half by killing another human being. If it was a young person younger than they, such as a child murderer, they would get more credit. There would also be a multiplier effect due to the resulting unborn if the person killed was prepubescent . People like Saddam Hussein should have gotten enough carbon offsets to avoid the death penalty anyway since he eliminated over a million trails of carbon dioxide. Maybe we can look at people like Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot in a new eco-light.

Ooh, you're bad! ;-) You really don't want to hear my view.

The world is a wacky place. Amphetamines are notorious for destroying lives, but the one really useful thing amphetamines did for us was to destroy Hitler. I still shudder to think how close fascism was to sweeping the world.

I love one of Robert Fulghum's quotes from a source I don't recall: "We usually know what we do. We usually even think we know why we do it. What we don't know is what 'what we do' does."

Mike

• How about this: Plant as many trees as you can and drive a Prius. There is no excuse at all for anyone driving a Cadillac Escalade.

earle

Many Americans want to drive an Escalade so they can be the envy of their peers.