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Farmers Panic About a ‘Cow Tax’ [greenhouse gas regulation......]
New York Times ^

Posted on 12/01/2008 11:21:21 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Farmers Panic About a ‘Cow Tax’ By Kate Galbraith Should their greenhouse gases be taxed? (Photo: Steve Ruark for The New York Times)

The comment period for the Environmental Protection Agency’s exploration of greenhouse gas regulation ended last Friday, with farmers lobbying furiously against the notion of a “cow tax” on methane, a potent greenhouse gas emitted by livestock.

The New York Farm Bureau issued a statement last week (PDF) saying it feared that a tax could reach $175 per cow, $87.50 per head of beef cattle and upward of $20 for each hog.

Such a tax would represent a “massive hit on our industry here in New York,” said Peter Gregg, a spokesman for the farm bureau, in an interview.

“You could take all of our cows together and they probably wouldn’t have the same effect on the atmosphere than the average traffic jam on the Tappan Zee Bridge,” he added.

Farm officials from Texas to Alabama also sounded the alarm, and Mr. Gregg said that the response in New York among farmers was “almost a panic.”

The hysteria may be premature, however. The E.P.A. indeed issued an “advanced notice of proposed rulemaking” this summer that called for public comments on the idea of regulating greenhouse gas emissions from cars, as well as “stationary sources” — which, yes, would include cows and other livestock.

(Excerpt) Read more at greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com ...


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such nonsense.......
1 posted on 12/01/2008 11:21:22 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Any tax is a good tax, and any excuse is a good excuse, when you’re a left-wing nutcase.


2 posted on 12/01/2008 11:24:16 AM PST by marron
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To: Sub-Driver

Solution to high milk prices. Kill the cows to teach them a lesson. MOOOOOOO


3 posted on 12/01/2008 11:24:34 AM PST by sickoflibs (McCain asks: "Did you stupid conservatives really believe me? HA-HA-HA, wait til 09")
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s their patriotic duty ...


4 posted on 12/01/2008 11:26:27 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Sub-Driver

The goal of “Global Warming” is to control people, to punish them for choosing “unapproved” behaviors and consumption.

This is the same goal for “universal healthcare” - to control behavior.


5 posted on 12/01/2008 11:26:43 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: Sub-Driver
Exxon-Mobil's newest reserve :


6 posted on 12/01/2008 11:26:56 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Sub-Driver

Cow Tax thanks to MOOOOOveon.org!


7 posted on 12/01/2008 11:27:00 AM PST by proudpapa (Obama - The Worst One Ever!)
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To: Sub-Driver

All those farmers in Iowa will get their reward for voting Obummer.


8 posted on 12/01/2008 11:27:51 AM PST by linn37
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To: Sub-Driver

What about horses? And Zoo animals.....elephants are many times bigger than cows are.


9 posted on 12/01/2008 11:29:18 AM PST by GailA ( Valor Quilts for our wounded Troops....I'm a quilt-aholic!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver
BP introduces its newest Methane Collection technology:


10 posted on 12/01/2008 11:30:24 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Sub-Driver

11 posted on 12/01/2008 11:30:26 AM PST by Red Badger (Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
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To: linn37

yes I know the articles about New York but if the EPA really wants to make some $$$ it would go to the mid west.


12 posted on 12/01/2008 11:30:54 AM PST by linn37
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To: Sub-Driver

When is the NYTimes last day publishing?


13 posted on 12/01/2008 11:32:20 AM PST by Tarpon (America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
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To: GailA

Hey....HEY....leave horses out of this. It already costs me a fortune to feed and take care of them. Horses farts aren’t dangerous anyway.....just don’t smell too good.


14 posted on 12/01/2008 11:33:30 AM PST by RC2 (Where is Obama's Birth Certifacte?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yeah, that is something to worry about.


15 posted on 12/01/2008 11:35:06 AM PST by Tzimisce (http://groups.myspace.com/nailthemessiah)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hell, why don’t we just tax human beings for breathing, too. After all, by decree of the EPA, carbon-dioxide - and therefore exhaling, and therefore actual people, are pollutants. We should tax people for just being alive. That will save the planet!


16 posted on 12/01/2008 11:36:19 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative
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To: linn37
The ONE thing I carry a grudge against Richard M. Nixon for is his creation of the EPA.

The entire history of the EPA is one of amassing more control and driving up the costs of everything.

Nixon gave us the EPA,Bush gave us Homeland Security;the addition of a new bureaucracy is hardly ever the correct solution to a problem.

17 posted on 12/01/2008 11:37:24 AM PST by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
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To: Sub-Driver

...or how to create mass starvation through tax policy.


18 posted on 12/01/2008 11:38:01 AM PST by Obadiah (NOMR! - Not One More RINO!)
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To: linn37

It wasn’t the farmers who voted for Obama, check out the map, it was the mostly larger cities in Iowa that carried him.

Who is this going to affect the most, the lower income?

When will they learn the the lowly termite is the largest producer of methane...maybe we need better forest control to take care of the dead trees (facetious remark)!!!


19 posted on 12/01/2008 11:38:42 AM PST by PORD (People...Of Right Do)
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To: sickoflibs
Taxing livestock is really anti-human. High taxes would induce farmers to exit the market, thereby pushing livestock production lower. The end result would be less meat available at higher prices.

Looks like a clever way to conceal the latest in Malthusian population control policy.

What about the micro, or family farmer? Would they have to pay the tax?

20 posted on 12/01/2008 11:41:05 AM PST by Vassar1989 (Feeling alone in New York; My professors lied; Sarah Palin equals Wonder Woman)
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