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Monday, July 2, 2007 12:00 AM

Shopping for carbon credits

An environmentally conscious mom discovers carbon offsets are not always a smart buy -- especially from green-washing utility companies like PG&E.
By Katherine Ellison

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  • Monday, July 2, 2007 06:37 AM

    Instead of complaining about PG&E's "greenwashing"

    why don't you just put a cork in it and plunk down the $50,000 or so it would cost to cover your (daytime at least) electric bills with solar panels? Or could it be that these are complex issues with nontrivial solutions?

    —scareduck Read scareduck's other letters

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