Glamourous MLB teams buy into "carbon offset" scam while fans can't afford gas to get to a game

• Ira Einhorn, in custody for murder, was also an original "Earth Day" organizer. photo Salon.com

Appearance and reality are different, as is spending someone else's money vs spending your own. An MLB.com press release today lauds Earth Day. A great "progessive," Ira Einhorn, was one of the founders of Earth Day.

• Einhorn also murdered a woman in his bedroom, fled the US, and hid out in France for many years before finally being brought back and put in prison. Article in Salon.com. 8/14/02.

Many know conserving resources has always been common sense but the power of politics and Hollywood are too much for MLB to pass up. Another chunk of fan experience and revenue are severed in a flash, with much more to come. It's buying and selling, the definition of politics, where MLB lives, nationally and globally.

• First among teams in the article is the Seattle Mariners who've allocated precious financial and personnel resources into the "carbon offsets" tragedy. (Despite that the global "biofuel" industry is now causing global famine and rationing even in the US). MLB.com says the Mariners' offset broker is "NativeEnergy."

• NativeEnergy has worked closely with Al Gore and his movie according to their report from Indian Country, 1/3/07:

"CANASTOTA, N.Y. - A privately held American Indian energy company has teamed up with Al Gore in delivering the former vice president's message of global warming to millions of people around the world.

• NativeEnergy has been majority-owned by the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy since 2005. NativeEnergy, Participant Productions and Paramount Pictures Classics were able to offset 100 percent of the carbon dioxide pollution from air and ground travel, production energy use, associated with the making of ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' according the NativeEnergy Web site.

Participant Productions, a relatively new film company, and Paramount Pictures Classics are helping to build the Rosebud St. Francis wind farm in South Dakota and the Dovan family dairy farm methane renewable energy project in Pennsylvania; they also helped to make the film climate-neutral, according to NativeEnergy. NativeEnergy, whose logo can be found on the back of

• the recently released ''An Inconvenient Truth'' DVD, works to decrease the amount of carbon dioxide that enters the Earth's atmosphere every day."...

NativeEnergy also boasts celebrity raw sewage dumper the Dave Matthews Band on their client list. (NativeWind.org). 9/15/05.

• The headline in the Chicago Tribune about the environmental crime says "the bus driver" of the Dave Matthews band dumped 800 pounds of human waste onto boat passengers and into a river. Near the end of the article it notes the driver had been a long-time employee of the band, and they were sorry "one of our buses was involved" in such a thing.

It was the Dave Matthews band's responsibility, their judgment that was "involved" in this unspeakable act. Their guy also denied it at first, and only admitted the truth when video evidence emerged showing the crime. The Dave Matthews band gets no more chances, no more pr after this display.

• More evidence that saying you are "Green" doesn't make you better, or even "progressive:"

• The company that supplied all generator power for the Live Earth Concert in July 2007 was fined for pouring poisonous chemicals in a river killing much animal life. The company Bio Tech Oils UK had previously won awards.

(Appearance isn't reality). And fans are broke.

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