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Bill Nye: Taxing cow farts a 'fantastic thing'
wnd.com ^ | 5/23/2018 | James Delingpole

Posted on 05/23/2018 6:46:12 AM PDT by rktman

Netflix host “Science Guy” Bill Nye has a new solution for the world’s environmental problems: taxing cow farts.

“Well, this is what we can do and it’s a win-win: to have a fee on carbon. So if you are raising livestock and producing a lot of carbon dioxide with your farm equipment and the exhaust from the animals, then you would pay a fee on that and it would be reflected in the price of meat, reflected in the price of fish, reflected in the price of peanuts,” Bill Nye said in a recent interview with the Daily Beast.

“This would be a free-market way to reckon the real cost of a meat diet to the world,” Nye continued. “But conservatives now are against such a thing because they’re against any regulation, any tax or any government involvement in anything. But again, it won’t last, and a carbon fee would be a fantastic thing for the world.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: ecoassclowns; epa; meateaters
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To: rktman

The best thing Bill Nye could do for the environment is stop exhaling CO2.

5.56mm


41 posted on 05/23/2018 7:15:04 AM PDT by M Kehoe (THIS SPACE FOR RENT)
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To: rktman

And yet there used to be millions of roaming bison here. Let’s also forget about all the wildlife that we have zero control over that is probably orders of magnitude more influential.


42 posted on 05/23/2018 7:15:48 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Future Snake Eater
My sister and I were “Beakman’s World” kids.

I was a "Beakman's World" fanatic ... I even purchased all of the shows on DVD.

I felt about Beakman as Sheldon did about Professor Proton ...

43 posted on 05/23/2018 7:17:14 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Come Hell or High Water - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQNUp9rgjNs&feature=youtu.be)
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To: rktman

Too bad we can’t tax the emissions of leftists.


44 posted on 05/23/2018 7:17:15 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: rktman

Is he going to go out and stand behind the cow and count them?! Better stick his ear up close so he doesn’t miss any.


45 posted on 05/23/2018 7:18:36 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: SolidRedState

“We need a tax on every crazy idea about a tax.”

The psychotic left will continually get away with their confiscatory tax schemes as long as there are those in elected office who are afraid of the hardcore, leftist, adolescent-pyschotic Progressives who literally get away with murder.

IMHO


46 posted on 05/23/2018 7:19:50 AM PDT by ripley (ose who dis)
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To: fuzzylogic

Shhhhhh. We’re not supposed to bring up things like that. You’ll ruin everything.


47 posted on 05/23/2018 7:20:03 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: iontheball

I worked in the farm supply industry for a while. We had a tool for that. It was a 10 inch long stainless steel tube, with a spike that slid in and out. You put the tube against the cows belly, punched the spike in to make a hole, pushed tube in as you pulled out the spike and the gas was released.

Last resort tool to save the cow. I can’t remember what it was called.


48 posted on 05/23/2018 7:20:07 AM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: chajin

Netflix: Nye, Obama’s... sad demise, need to cancel subscription.


49 posted on 05/23/2018 7:20:25 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: rktman

I got a solution Nye. How bout we have a civil war and we hang you by your pencil neck till you rot from the rope you SOB.


50 posted on 05/23/2018 7:22:34 AM PDT by crz
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To: backwoods-engineer

Bill Nye does not believe in the scientific method. If a hypothesis cannot be tested and falsified or confirmed with a verifiable and repeatable experiment it is not a scientific hypothesis. There is nothing scientific about designing computer models that are meant to confirm a theory, especially when these models have been shown repeatedly to have less predictive value than random chance.

Even with the break down of our public schools... not too distant generations will look back and wonder what kind of idiots claimed that this global warming nonsense was a valid scientific theory.


51 posted on 05/23/2018 7:24:37 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: Tench_Coxe

Thats all he has? A BS in mechanical engineering?

That MOFO has no more qualifications than I do! I got a degree in Marine Diesel engineering.

WTF!? What a fraud!


52 posted on 05/23/2018 7:24:56 AM PDT by crz
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To: henkster

Bill Nye IS a cow fart.


53 posted on 05/23/2018 7:26:48 AM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: rktman

Do liberal totalitarians ever nave an answer for ANYTHING that doesn’t include taxes. I wonder if Btw and Bloomberg plot together in a closet?


54 posted on 05/23/2018 7:28:59 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvete)
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To: rktman

Why don’t we tax your gaseous emissions, Billy? You’re full of it as it is.


55 posted on 05/23/2018 7:29:19 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: rktman

I’ll pass


56 posted on 05/23/2018 7:29:50 AM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: SolidRedState

Relief pipe? ;-) But yes, I know what you are talking about.


57 posted on 05/23/2018 7:30:47 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: a fool in paradise

I’m kinda amazed #MeToo didn’t catch up to him. He always struck me as a perv.


58 posted on 05/23/2018 7:31:15 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Reno89519

Did you forget susan “it was a video” rice is on the board of directors now at NOTflix?


59 posted on 05/23/2018 7:31:44 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: dangus

nambla perhaps.


60 posted on 05/23/2018 7:32:35 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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