BY: NCViking

Yes, the pine-nuts on the left have come up with a brilliant idea to track your carbon footprint – a cool robo-glove with a carbon tracking meter. The glove will turn Gore Green if you ride your bicycle made of hemp to work, Yippee Yellow if you patter that ugly Prius along with your Fred Flintstone feet, an Ominous Orange if you dare get on that stinky diesel bus, and a Repugnant Red if you drive that stretch Hummer on a trip to Key West while eating been burritos. Oh, and the information gathered will be monitored by the government for various uses …

From Treehugger.com:

All the information about how many passengers are taking advantage of the various kinds of transportation would be uploaded to a government database where the data could be analysed and the transportation system greened up ever more.

It has a slight ring of cyborg and Big Brother, but the idea is still kind of appealing. Knowing exactly the impact your choice of transportation is making in real time would be a big step forward.

“…the idea is still kind of appealing” Yes, ‘styling‘ with some cyborg Jacko glove to measure my carbon malfeasance would be a hoot! And the government monitoring my carbon crumbs would surely ‘never’ be used for nefarious purposes … or taxation.

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