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Cow Cheesin’
Category: Enviro Whackos, Exposing The Left, Fascism, Government MadnessYou had better think twice the next time you get the urge to have little Johnny pull your finger as a prelude to a fart. Little Johnny might think it’s funny but Big Brother doesn’t see any humor in it at all.
Today it’s the cows…tomorrow it’s the humans. As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court 2007 ruling that greenhouse gases emitted by belching and flatulence amounted to air pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency is in a police state frenzy. The EPA has now proposed to charge fees for air-polluting animals to become law. Like I’ve said many times before, I can’t make this stuff up so check it out for yourselves here.
“This is one of the most ridiculous things the federal government has tried to do,” said Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks, an outspoken opponent of the proposal.
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.
If you think a trip to the grocery store is expensive now. Just wait until these loony left wing environmental wackos start taxing cow farts. You haven’t seen anything yet. This ranks right up there with the ridiculous notion we should take a food staple like corn and make ethanol out of it. We have too many politicians on both sides of the aisle who need to get their heads out of their caboose. They’re killing us.
Why don’t they find a way to harness the methane to use as an alternative gas fuel instead of charging the farmer? Then the farmer can actually profit from the cow throughout it’s entire life (milk production, methane production and finally meat production). Besides, just because you pay money (ala Carbon Credits) doesn’t make the problem go away if cow methane is causing environmental issues. Look at how many companies get fined for environmental problems and just pay the money because it’s cheaper than fixing the problem?
I have a better idea Ron. Let Mother Nature do what she’s been doing ever since the Garden of Eden and let the darn cow fart tax free. Whoever dreamed up this idiotic fairy tale that farts cause global warming are out of their ever loving minds. This entire global warming thing has gotten completely out of control.
You Know, Hillman, this is going to hit the rice and bean eating vegans hardest.
Ron, it is not likely to be profitable to harness methane from cows. It takes a lot of cow farts to cook a hamburger.