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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If they outlawed all noxious gasses being emitted into the atmosphere, the Democrats would soon vanish from the earth.
Thank you! Was just going to post it.
I know, let’s tax FAKE SCIENTISTS!.....................LIKE NYE!....................
Taxes are never a “free market” solution for anything. Bill Nye needs to read a basic economics textbook.
Interesting he puts off on the farmers. Cowardly bastard knows if he put on consumers he would have to pay and there would be a revolt.
Well, then, Nye should be heavily taxed each time he opens his yap.
Start by taxing Bill Nye, the biggest cow fart around.
Hey Science Guy. Cow farts don’t release green house gasses because cows don’t really fart.
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=2569
Sounds like he wants to tax fish farts as well.
There is a children’s book called everybody poops. It discusses how all animals have to defecate. Therefore they also all fart.
However I’d wager that there are more animals that are not under man’s control than are being raised for food. why are only the food animals being taxed? why not all animals since they all fart?
What next, a procreation tax? A living tax?
Recti.
Whatev.
https://www.biography.com/people/bill-nye-20950589
BS in ME from Cornell. He worked as an Engineer for Boeing and then got involved in Comedy after winning a Steve Martin look alike contest.
Which makes him qualified to tell us and cows how to live?
Bill doesn’t even know that the four-chambered stomach of domestic cattle makes it impossible for them to fart.
Democrats must get behind this-—to monitor them, of course.
We’ll watch at home on TV.
Not I. My sister and I were “Beakman’s World” kids. I never saw a single episode of Bill Nye’s.
There’s a big problem with that position Bill, cows don’t fart, they are ruminants. I have never heard a cow fart, but horses will do it all the time. I grew up around cows and and they will bloat, lie down, and die if they are turned out on a rich, green wet food source such as alfalfa. The bloat gets so extreme they can not breath. I have saved them by making a halter with a rope tied to a stick (bit) placed across their mouth. As they chew on the bit, it helps them burp up the gas. The gas comes out the front end not the back end. Another more extreme, dire approach, which I have never used, is to take your knife and pierce the rumen in front of the hip bone to let the gas escape.
If the cows do not cooperate the Democrats including Schumer and David Hogg will demand it and that is that.
Good luck taxing the cows farting in India where they are sacred. The cows not the farts.
Is this why they want the Cliven Bundy’s of the world to stop using the land to raise cattle?
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