I initially herd (you will understand later) about an EPA ruling that animal flatulence, that is farting to you folks in Northwest Louisiana and Northeast Texas, is a major pollutant and therefore subject to a greenhouse gas emissions tax. EPA's Air Pollution Target.
EPA officials deny that a farting tax on animals is in the works. John Millett, a spokesman for EPA's air and radiation division said, "EPA is not proposing any type of tax on livestock..." Riiiight, your government would never lie to you or attempt to cover you with fertilizer straight from the bull.
Would it?
The American Farm Bureau Federation said, based on federal agriculture department figures, it would require farms or ranches with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs to pay an annual fee of about $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 per head of beef cattle and $20 for each hog.
Farmers from across the country have expressed outrage over the EPA report, both on Internet sites and in opinions sent to EPA during a public comment period that ended last week. Many call it a "cow tax" and say the EPA proposed it.
"It's something that really has a very big potential adverse impact for the livestock industry," said Rick Krause, the senior director of congressional relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation.
The fee would cover the cost of a permit for the livestock operations. While farmers say it would drive them out of business, an organization supporting the proposal hopes it forces the farms and ranches to switch to healthier crops.
"It makes perfect sense if you are looking for ways to cut down on meat consumption and recoup environmental losses," said Bruce Friedrich, a spokesman in Washington for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
"We certainly support making factory farms pay their fair share," he said.
it's time we Stop the Maddness of the Green people, and Global Warmists, I have a 10th grade education, but I was pretty good in Math, and because of that, i need to ask these armchair Genius how a gas, that occupies 1745 parts per "Billion"...yes Billion....it's time we turn these morons off, and stop listening to their stupidity, it's clear they arent ready to give up their luxury, just look at Al Gore, his household uses 220 times the annual electric usage of an average household....thats the same guy promoting all these "ideals" We need to adopt...not him..just us...he'll be lounging on his "bio fueled" boat, in the middle of a tennesee lake....I am just curios how many Lake marina's on inland Lakes have Bio fuels at their pumps ?....
ReplyDeleteLets examine this Global warming deal, the left are telling us the sky is falling, ...arent these the same people yelling and screaming in the 70's we were headed to an Ice Age ?, yes they are, the William Ayers, and other Left wingers, now they are "Educating" out kids in college, nice huh, your Tax dollars at work, the truth is, theres NO Such thing as Global Warming, this is simply a Scam brought to US by the Left, and members of the UN....far Left to divert money, (your's, Mine) to themselves in the way of a "Carbon" Tax, this "TAX" once enacted will begin the funding of the UN's standing Army, and then it starts getting real Ugly, these original (2500) "Scientists" the UN claimed had as backers to their "Theory" were NOT meterologists, had NO weather or climatalogical background what so ever, were just a smoke screen to get some of us all fired up to "Save" the Planet, ...I mean who out there wants to Hurt this place ?...no one, but going against these extremist we are told we are enemies of the Planet, puts a "We Hate the Planet" Moniker on our foreheads, yet.. in 2004 I spent 2 months, primarily in Bejing, China as a Chemical Consultant for an Automotive Chemical Co., our main purpose was to help the Chinese pass the Smog tests they have to put their cars and trucks thru, the polution their is well past Horrid, it's late morning most days before the sun is visible, anyone ever ask themselves why the Chinese are always wearing those masks ?.....P O L U T I O N.....yet the UN isnt focsing on China, or India, who between the two countries have 1/3 the worlds Population, instead they focus on the US, ...why ?...they see us as an easy mark...(Back to the "feel good" stuff), I mean what American wants to be seen as an "Enemy" of the planet......well till the Chinese and India are going to clean things up, the US shouldnt do anything unless it's selling our Technology and being Paid to help clean these to Countries up, Not thru a Tax...we cant control and monitor....
ReplyDeletelets Examine Global Warming shall we ?, the recent events (Extreme Snows) in Oregon and the Northeast in general will be spun by the "Global Warmist" that it was indeed directly caused by global warming, now lets see, freezing temps, and Snow are caused by what now ?
ReplyDeleteok, now that we have been there lets examine CO2, you'll notice these armchair scientist always speak in tons of output from man in his quest to burn up all the fossil fuels, yet the increase in CO2 is minimal at best, the amounts of measured CO2 in the atmosphere is around 380 ppm, yep, Parts Per Million ... (up from 270 ppm in 1900) (and increase from 1700 of roughly 100 ppm before the Internal combustion made a big hit on the Scene)...this GAS (CO2) everyones freaking out over is miniscule yet its the one best sources to feed plants, ALL green plants live on CO2, and turn that back into Oxygen. so a few more parts per million here or there is a Bad thing ?...and just how does a colorless odorless gass in such a small quantity impede the transfer of heat from molecule to molecule.....it's is hardly even measurable.
truth is, relative humidy affects the planet temps Much more than a color odorless gas....so the addition of green increases humidity, and increases temps....dont believe it, then check the facts here on the internet.
The UN is proposing many of these Ideas, and there is an Agenda, it's to stop people from eating meat they dont like, so....we'll tax it, which will raise the price, and soon we'll add more taxes, ...and so on, and so on.,...The RPA is just one way of making it all look legit, the green paople have to be stopped, and the US Consumer needs to rethink the FDA, and EPA, they are just spokes people for those they are supposed to regulate, yet how good a job are they doing ?....how many people are dying from FDA Approved Drugs ?, how many times are we finding Chinese are slipping stuff in that will KILL us, and how many times are we finding Bad food ....after it's killed, or sickened....is this an organisation we can afford ?....No it isnt.
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