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Apocalypse Cow - Obama EPA To Regulate Bovine Emissions
Investor's Business Daily ^ | April 1, 2014 | Investor's Business Daily

Posted on 04/01/2014 11:39:14 AM PDT by raptor22

Regulation: The White House has released a Climate Action Plan that includes the targeting of methane emissions from cows and other barnyard animals that threaten the planet through belching and other, er, activities.

It's our lust for cheeseburgers that's dooming the planet through climate change, the Obama administration said in a Climate Action Plan released Friday that seeks to save us all from ruminant livestock.

Having already blamed the Industrial Revolution for what we used to call weather and temperatures that have flat-lined for 15 years, the White House is now targeting American agriculture abundance by slashing methane emissions from cows by 25% by 2020.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the "special digestive systems" of "ruminant livestock" such as cattle, sheep, buffalo, and goats produce methane, a more potent "greenhouse gas" than even the carbon dioxide we humans exhale or the exhaust from the SUVs we use to take the kids to soccer practice.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: agricukture; climatechangefraud; cowfarts; cowflatulence; epa; epaoutofcontrol; methane
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To: Nifster

Over the years Barry has compared himself to Lincoln, Kennedy and other non-failures, and I recall when he thought he would be another Reagan ...
But as usual, with Obama something is lost in translation:
“If it moos, tax it. If it keeps mooing, regulate it.
And if it stops mooing, subsidize it ... “


21 posted on 04/01/2014 12:00:12 PM PDT by tumblindice (Are all Democrats inveterate, habitual liars?)
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To: raptor22

Let me decode for everyone. By “regulate farm animal methane” the obama regime means American taxpayers will have to “pony up” a few more trillion dollars to make things “normal.”


22 posted on 04/01/2014 12:02:20 PM PDT by subterfuge (CBS NBC ABC FOX AP-- all no different than Pravda.)
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To: raptor22

Conservative group sues EPA over its ‘IRS-like’ tactics

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/01/conservative-group-sues-epa-over-its-irs-like-tactics/#ixzz2xfB3CYS0


23 posted on 04/01/2014 12:06:18 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: raptor22

I doubt seriously that Moochelle will pay.


24 posted on 04/01/2014 12:07:23 PM PDT by maddog55 (I'd be Pro-Choice if we could abort liberals.)
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To: raptor22

I hereby call for a Million-Cow March in Washington DC
on
July 15, 2014, Cow Appreciation Day-

Go out and give a cow a hug!

And I can only say:

STAMPEDE!!!


25 posted on 04/01/2014 12:08:22 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: dfwgator

“This is about getting rid of beef.”

They are also talking about regulating the release of methane in the oilfields.

With livestock it will probably be a “methane tax”.

With the oilfield it will probably be capturing the gas vented through the tanks, which will mean untold number (most oil wells) of wells will have to be plugged because it will be cost prohibitive to capture the gas and you can no longer flare the gas.

I’m sure someone will figure out a “methane tax” paid by those EVIL oil producers to battle “climate change” will solve the problem and they won’t have to plug their wells.


26 posted on 04/01/2014 12:10:27 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: raptor22

Now there’s a job suitable for government workers - monitoring cow farts and sniffing out the worst ones.


27 posted on 04/01/2014 12:12:26 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: raptor22

well, sticking catalytic converters up cows’ asses
would seem to be a job
he might be able to handle.....

it sure would be good all around if we could find him a job he could do.....


28 posted on 04/01/2014 12:13:42 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: raptor22

Elections have consequences, and the American people were apparently so incredibly insane that they elected the commie in the WH. Twice. Wonder how many dairy farmers voted for the Obamanation?


29 posted on 04/01/2014 12:16:51 PM PDT by afsnco
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To: raptor22

Cows contribute to global warming... this from gaseous vegans


30 posted on 04/01/2014 12:19:43 PM PDT by politisite ( http://www.politisite.com/)
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To: raptor22

Okay, somebody tell me how are they gonna produce GREEN COWS?.......................

31 posted on 04/01/2014 12:20:26 PM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: afsnco

Iowa........................


32 posted on 04/01/2014 12:21:00 PM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: raptor22

Looks like the right ime to introduce my greatest invention!

The bovine VRU (’cuz cattle are, apparently, scared of “butt flares” as a control device).


33 posted on 04/01/2014 12:21:55 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The Acronym explains the science.)
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To: raptor22

Well, I see there will be a lot more vegetarians here on FreeRepublic
Meat is bad.
Red meat is really bad.
But America won’t give up her meat willingly so we must nudge them and make sure they eat less.
It’s for their own good.
We can’t tax it.
The people will blame the Democrats if the price goes up, so we’ll tax the farmer on the amount of cattle he has, couched in the global climate change meme.
The farmer can raise his prices and America can blame the farmer.
So they’ll buy less and be healthier.

Hey, pass the steak. I want mine medium rare please.


34 posted on 04/01/2014 12:22:39 PM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: IMR 4350

:: With the oilfield it will probably be capturing the gas vented through the tanks, which will mean untold number (most oil wells) of wells will have to be plugged because it will be cost prohibitive to capture the gas and you can no longer flare the gas. ::

Nope. We will continue to FLARE the gas and reduce the landowner payments according to the fines received.


35 posted on 04/01/2014 12:30:51 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The Acronym explains the science.)
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To: raptor22

First livestock, then humans. Why? Livestock can’t shoot back when u shove a cork up their butt.


36 posted on 04/01/2014 12:51:51 PM PDT by DownInFlames
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To: DownInFlames

Daniel Greenfield wrote a column last week about how the left and Eco-nuts want to undo all progress and send us backwards, this is an example of that


37 posted on 04/01/2014 12:54:23 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: raptor22

38 posted on 04/01/2014 1:01:12 PM PDT by red-dawg (<<< click for info on my book.)
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To: raptor22

I’d like to know how a goat compares in methane generation to say, a hippo or elephant or a monkey.

We know this is really isn’t about domesticated livestock methane; it’s about the manure of taxing small farmers and ranchers out of business.


39 posted on 04/01/2014 1:03:03 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: raptor22
Here's one cow that can benefit from this vital government program:

Hat Tip: http://terpsboy.com/blogger9/homesweet-home.jpg


40 posted on 04/01/2014 1:05:06 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The future ain't what it use to be -- Yogi Berra)
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