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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When I think about it, “climate change” is just a way for someone who is rich and powerful and politically connected to make money.
It is a way for government to tax little people and small business out of existence while protecting the big business interests that buy the politicians of both big parties.
I am for an authentic free market, not a socialist and we can’t let the big bank and big business people sucker us into believing that opposition to their using these issues to tax us on our utility bills while they get “carbon credits” is the right way.
Everyone should pay tax big and small if that’s what we need to fund government.
In Canada little people pay user fees, sales taxes and income taxes so corporate tax rates are kept low to fund their PC system of government.
No the government there will tax utility bills and legalize marijuana to bring in more revenue while keeping corporate rates low.
We can’t let the USA become Canada on this “climate change” thing with the pro-big guy system I described above.
Anyone who endorses the concept of a carbon tax is not at all a scientist but is a Humbug DeLuxe.
Consider the academic credentials of Gore...... expertise within climate science is not required to be a climate alarmist. You just have to parrot the party line.
Bill Nye should work to quantify the greenhouse gases being emitted by the volcano in Hawaii and compare that with global methane emissions from animals. I think the numbers would surprise a lot of people and put things in perspective, but they place absolute control above reason.
Reminds me of my 7 year old granddaughter floating with me and grandpa in our farm pond. “Grandma, where do fish go to the bathroom?”
If liberals would stop eating beef the free market would reduce the number of cows and thus cow farts.
Even better if liberals just stop eating. Period.
Agreed. Before any rube like Mr Nye comments on this topic, they should familiarize themselves with the concept of EXTERNALITIES. Further, there are several free-market solutions to this issue, notably the Coase Theorem
I guess this means that Bill Nye officially qualifies as a fartknocker. Hey, it’s in Webster’s. And the meaning of it is very, very, appropriate.
rwood
I grew up with cows and horses as well. We had problems when the cows would break into an area with apples and pears on the ground. We sometimes had to shove a short length of garden hose down their throats to release the gas to save them. If the trapped gas were farts I guess that we would have had to shove the hose up their butts.
Horses actually can have problems as well. We had a retired race horse named Moon Ace. He lived to be 38 years old. All of his teeth eventually fell out and he was almost completely blind. He actually still seemed to have a good life up until his long term companion a young chick horse Morning Star had to be euthanized shortly after she turned 33. He started looking a little rough after that and people were always calling animal control and claiming we had an abused animal.
Mostly because he had no teeth Moon Ace had to eat special prepared senior horse chow which he was not that excited about. One day he managed to get in with the other horses and ate a bunch of standard grain. He started bloating. We noticed fairly early that something was wrong; he had one hell of a stomach ache. But a horse's digestive system is far different than a cow's, the trapped gas could not be released with a hose and the vet was unable to save him, so he went to horsey heaven to run again in green pastures with his beloved Morning Star.
They probably already have plans to create an industry (owned by them) to send tank trucks around to the farms to collect the gas (for a fee)
and sell it to the public to heat homes, fuel kitchen stoves and power vehicles.
"...just doin' my part *ppiff* to keep things toasty"
So who is supposed to pay the fines for wild animals like deer, elk, birds, bees....
I hope the government never puts a fart meter on me. It would bankrupt me.
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I have an old work buddy that runs cows in Kansas so yeah, we’ve talked about the trials and tribulations of being a cattle farmer.
I had a cat that looked like that cat.
He used to sit in my lap and fart.
Lordy, lordy did they stink.
They know it too....
I suppose he means ‘fantastic’ as in ‘unbelievable’, ‘unrealistic’, ‘fictional’, ‘of fantasy’.
Do cows even fart?
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
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