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To: LindyBill who wrote (103532)	3/7/2005 9:49:41 AM
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Offsetting politicians' flights Adam Smith Blog By Xander on Environment As part of its sustainable energy programme, the UK government is set to announce a scheme to promote clean energy in developing countries by paying into a fund every time a minister or civil servant takes a trip by air. The idea is to offset the climate change impact of the carbon dioxide emissions from flying. Three government departments will be involved initially, and payments for their flights could raise £0.5m a year. news.bbc.co.uk This is very generous of them, or, as we taxpayers prefer to put it, very generous of us. It is not their money, but ours, being spent on this piece of gesture politics. One of our readers thinks there is a much better idea: once in flight they could be hurled from the plane, thus relieving the world of the gas they produce while they're pontificating.