Thursday, February 19, 2009
Politics / Woods Blackburn Champions Fight Against U.S. Regulation of Cow Farts
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:52 AM
Her exploits are chronicled on this crazy conservative website with a story headlined "The Cow Tax Causing a Stink." Blackburn is sponsoring H.R. 391 to amend to the Clean Air Act so that greenhouse gases are not subject to regulation by the EPA. According to the article:
Since cows produce a certain amount of methane and methane would be regulated under The Clean Air Act, then cows and pigs would be subject to a tax. Blackburn said projections she has seen suggest that for dairy cows the tax would be about $175 a head, $20 per pig and $88 for beef stock. Plus, a tax on farmers would also mean something to consumers. Blackburn said, "the cost of milk is going to go up and all of your dairy products."This tax would also mean fewer jobs, because according to Blackburn, "they are going to be putting more money into compliance and regulation rather than putting that money into jobs creation." It seems counterintuitive, especially at a time when the economy is in a job crisis already.
This reminds Pith of the time Blackburn went on a fact-finding mission to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She stepped out of the plane, looked around and didn't see any wildlife. That convinced her that we ought to drill for oil there. Silly thing, she didn't know wildlife is sometimes hard to find. Because it's wild. She thought the Arctic was like Brentwood, where the Starbucks and the nail salon and everything is right there within easy driving distance in your SUV.
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Is it true that shortly after that visit to the refuge, she hooked up with Sarah and Todd for an afternoon of snowmobiling?
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blah blah blah... humans are bad... earth is good... CO2 is toxic. Just a smidge tired of giving my hard earned money to the government. We do not warm the earth in any way that the earth cannot handle. The only thing we need to work on is that we are a little dirty. Diversity of life and CO2 concentration are directly related. Choke of the earth's CO2 and things begin to die. at 600-800 ppm the earth's plant life would flourish giving a greater foundation to animal life.
If you've ever stood in Tulare County, California in the middle of the dairy farms that are legion in that valley, you might not be so quick to poo-poo (so to speak) the idea of, not regulating cow-created methane, but trying to harness it as energy itself. Research using tree ring and ice core evidence suggests an earlier period of warming can be directly attributed to the sudden appearance of cattle herds in previously pristine Brazil a few hundred years ago. Methane. It's what was dinner, emitted by what's for dinner.
but don't bother about setting straight poor, confused Blackwell. If it didn't come off her fax machine from ol' Mr. Oxycontin addict himself, she can't possibly consider it fact.
"Forgive Congress(man) Marsha Blackburn. She's a little confused again. You see, the Environmental Protection Agency wants to regulate greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change and global warming."
The ones who are confused are you and the rest of the eco-socialist wackos who mistakenly think carbon dioxide is a "pollutant" and that it causing global warming.
There is no one occupying space on the surface of this planet who is the least bit capable of actually proving any such thing.
