TerraPass

TerraPass is a brilliant idea. Motivated by guilt, funded by excessive work hours, TerraPass is a partially facilitates the development of a pollution economy. The idea of trading pollution "credits" has been around since Kyoto. Now it is available for individual purchase. Though the details aren't clear, the idea is to pay for the pollution that you produce. TerraPass enables users to offset the cost of reducing that much pollution from being produced by other actors in the economy.

Imagine buying that Hummer but then feeling guilty about the 13 MPG fuel economy. Now you can do something about it! Maybe TerraPass should be mandatory? That way it might actually function as an incentive to purchase more environmentally-friendly vehicles. But for now, it's an excellent way for Land Cruisers and Range Rovers to manifest their concern for mother nature without sacrificing an inch of storage space!

Using the TP emissions calculator, I determined that I emit roughly 5,791 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually. That seems like a lot, but according to the TerraPass scale, my car qualifies for hybrid status! For $29.95 per year I can offset the Kompressor's kontribution to atmospheric pollution. Hmmmm...