Envirofascists to Crack Down on Bovine Emissions

From the no-I'm-really-not-making-this-up file:

The media wants us to believe that environmentalists are heroic, because they fight evil. What they don't tell us is that environmentalists see life on planet earth as evil.

In their newest push to criminalize/tax/control normal human behavior, the livestock industry is about to be the recipient of some unwanted attention from the government.

From Business and Media:

One of the suggestions offered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) for regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act is to levy a tax on livestock.

If a flatulence tax catches on, this guy will be a genius

The ANPR, released early this year, would give the EPA the authority to regulate greenhouse gas for not only greenhouse gas from manmade sources like transportation and industry, but also “stationary” sources which would include livestock.

Great. President Bush's appointees set 'em up.... Obama's are sure to knock 'em down.

Rick Krause, senior director of congressional relations for the American Farm Bureau, warned it’s certainly feasible – especially based on the rhetoric of President-elect Barack Obama and the use of the EPA to combat global warming. Such action by an Obama administration would take an act of Congress for livestock to be exempt.

“The new president has been on record as saying that he really supports regulating greenhouse gases out of the Clean Air Act,” Krause said to the Business & Media Institute. “So, we really have to keep an eye on it. Legislation would really be the only way to exempt it at this point – the cow tax.”

And, of course, like any lamebrained good government program, it won't cost much, they say. Maybe 7-8 cents on a gallon of milk.

I'll remember that when I'm eating a $10 cheeseburger because I had to pay for cow farts.