No pun intended. I saw this coming a long time ago. Can you believe this? It's almost like a nightmare, the only difference between this and a nightmare is we can wake up from the nightmare.
Via Fox News:
Flat Tax?
Farmers in Estonia are facing a new gas tax. But it might not be what you're thinking. Cattle ranchers in the Eastern European country have started receiving notices that they will be taxed for methane gas emissions from their cows.
Cows produce large quantities of methane gas through belching and flatulence when they digest grass. Some environmental estimates say that cows account for 15-25 percent of the world's gas emissions and a single cow can produce 350 liters of methane and up to 1,500 liters of carbon dioxide in a single say.
A spokesman for the country's main opposition party — the People's Union of Estonia — calls the new tax a "huge surprise." There is no other European Union country that imposes a flatulence tax on its farmers.
Oh yeah, before I forget, I'll call out this one as well: Someone will come back and say "You got that from Fox News, so it's just another conservative lie!"
Did I not say global warming climate change was nothing more than an excuse to gain more political power and money? I also said it here, and here.
Chalk yet another one up for me. This is what the insane madness of liberalism buys you, folks.
Consider all of this a big "I told you so."
On a related note, this piece is damn interesting while we're on the subject of cow farts. Here are a couple snippets:
Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow.
A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife. And they are blamed for a host of other environmental crimes, from acid rain to the introduction of alien species, from producing deserts to creating dead zones in the oceans, from poisoning rivers and drinking water to destroying coral reefs.
I knew you would like that one. It gets better:
The 400-page report by the Food and Agricultural Organisation, entitled Livestock's Long Shadow, also surveys the damage done by sheep, chickens, pigs and goats. But in almost every case, the world's 1.5 billion cattle are most to blame. Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.
Burning fuel to produce fertiliser to grow feed, to produce meat and to transport it - and clearing vegetation for grazing - produces 9 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas. And their wind and manure emit more than one third of emissions of another, methane, which warms the world 20 times faster than carbon dioxide.
Warning! Cow farts are destroying the environment! I have me an idea! Let's punish the farmers out there with a "windfall cow population tax." That's right, if a farmer is found to have "too many" cows on his/her farm, then he/she will be punished with the "windfall cow population tax" by taking away their profits. After all, we want to punish the oil companies, why not punish farmers, too? What's the difference.
Don't think it will not happen? Then you don't know liberals like I do.
H/T to Rants and Other Refinements