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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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Dolf Lundgren is a real Scientist, Bill Nye is not...let that sink in.


101 posted on 05/23/2018 10:55:08 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: rktman

Better than sex-junk, Mr Mechanical-Engineering-Guy?


102 posted on 05/23/2018 11:30:03 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: rktman

If he likes Hillary so much he thinks even her farts are fantastic, then why is he calling her a Taxing Cow, even if true.


103 posted on 05/23/2018 11:52:18 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Fido969

Lets tax Bill Nye’s farts.


104 posted on 05/23/2018 2:21:41 PM PDT by MCRD
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To: a fool in paradise

I’d like to unscrew Bill The Science Fraud’s head and take a dump down his neck.


105 posted on 05/23/2018 4:11:12 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." Hosea 7:8)
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To: IrishBrigade

Well those recti are for damn sure ablative, I’ll give you that.

One sour blat after anudder!!


106 posted on 05/25/2018 6:13:18 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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