“Most have ignored the barbs but Drake, who makes a point of buying carbon offsets for his stable of aircraft, “. That was his mistake, pandering to enviros buy giving legitimacy to Al Gore’s silly offset concept. All that money goes to what, plant trees? They are like weeds in my area of south central North Carolina. Stop mowing the grass on a golf course or pasture and you have a forest in a decade, without a single human interaction. God has it all figured out.