NOVELTY - The method comprises receiving a hydrocarbon product of a first producer in a main hydrocarbon delivery system, removing a portion of the hydrocarbon product of the first producer from the main hydrocarbon delivery system, removing an amount of carbon from a portion of the hydrocarbon product thus creating an altered product, accounting for the amount of carbon removed from a portion of the hydrocarbon product, and providing the altered hydrocarbon product back to the main hydrocarbon delivery system. The main hydrocarbon delivery system carries a hydrocarbon product of other producers.    USE - The method is useful for managing the reduction of carbon during product transport for a large number of hydrocarbon fuel producers within a given geographic region.    ADVANTAGE - The method ensures real and significant reduction of carbon dioxide emissions thus providing an inexpensive carbon credit or paying a carbon tax over time for producers especially small producers who cannot afford to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by installing on-site carbon capture and sequestration facilities. The computer provides automatically and via a wide area network the carbon credit and/or tax benefit to an approved regulatory authority.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - The method comprises receiving a hydrocarbon product of a first producer in a main hydrocarbon delivery system, removing a portion of the hydrocarbon product of the first producer from the main hydrocarbon delivery system, removing an amount of carbon from a portion of the hydrocarbon product thus creating an altered product, accounting for the amount of carbon removed from a portion of the hydrocarbon product, and providing the altered hydrocarbon product back to the main hydrocarbon delivery system. The main hydrocarbon delivery system carries a hydrocarbon product of other producers. A residual product is created when the amount of carbon is removed from a portion of the hydrocarbon product. The method further comprises returning a portion of the residual product to the first producer, implementing a portion of the residual product as fuel, selling a portion of the residual product, calculating a price adjustment for the first producer based on the step performed with the residual product, calculating carbon credit and/or tax information based on the amount of carbon removed from a portion of the hydrocarbon product, sending the carbon credit and/or tax information to the first producer, sending the carbon credit and/or tax information to an approved regulatory agency, charging the first producer a first amount of compensation for removing the amount of carbon from a portion of the hydrocarbon product, removing a portion of the hydrocarbon product of a second producer from the main hydrocarbon delivery system, removing an amount of carbon from a portion of the hydrocarbon product of the second producer thus creating a second altered product, accounting for the amount of carbon removed from a portion of the hydrocarbon product of the second producer, and providing the second altered product back to the main hydrocarbon delivery. The residual product comprises a liquid petroleum gas, hydrogen and a diluent. The first amount of compensation is less than an amount of carbon credit and/or tax otherwise due to the approved regulatory agency from the first producer. The main hydrocarbon delivery system comprises a pipeline, rail tanker car, tanker truck, tanker barge and marine tanker. The hydrocarbon delivery system comprises rail tanker cars, tanker trucks, tanker barges and marine tankers. The hydrocarbon product comprises a natural gas, oil, crude oil, heavy oil, peat, coal, biomass, bitumen, petcoke, synbit and dilbit. The method further comprises receiving a hydrocarbon-containing material at a processing plant, converting some of the carbon content of the hydrocarbon into carbon monoxide and/or carbon dioxide by processing plant to form a product gas comprising produced hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide and/or carbon dioxide, separating the carbon monoxide and/or carbon dioxide from the produced hydrocarbons by the processing plant, sequestering the separated carbon monoxide and/or carbon dioxide, and determining a carbon credit and/or tax benefit as a function of the amount of the sequestered separated carbon monoxide and/or carbon dioxide by a computer. The distribution is a function of a respective amount and/or content of hydrocarbon material provided by each of the producers. The hydrocarbon-containing material is natural gas, a bitumen-containing material, biomass, and crude oil. The hydrocarbon-containing material is received from a pipeline. An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is included for a hydrocarbon processing system.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The figure shows a schematic flow chart for a producer accounting for and obtaining a carbon credit or tax benefit.    Start carbon accounting process (501)    Producer produces product with known carbon content (502)    Producer hut carbon capture program (503)    Producer processes his own carbon credit and/or carbon tax adjustment (504)    Producer has no carbon capture program. (505)