The American Farm Bureau warns that cap and trade would cost the average farmer $175 on every dairy cow and $80 for beef cattle. So farm-state politics trumped climate change.
The EPA has been tasked by a Supreme Court ruling to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from your nostrils to your lawn mower. This even covers the emissions of barnyard animals, including the methane from cows.
American taxpayers apparently will be paying companies not to chop down trees. The Washington Times reports that as part of the legislation, the House will also be voting Friday on a plan to pay domestic and international companies around the world not to cut down trees.
Heritage Foundation projects that by 2035 it would reduce aggregate gross domestic product by $7.4 trillion. In an average year, 844,000 jobs would be destroyed, with peak years seeing unemployment rise by almost 2 million.
Inflation-adjusted gasoline prices would rise 74%, residential natural gas prices by 55% and the average family's annual energy bill by $1,500.
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Just how did Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, etal, come up with the computations on cow farts? I want to know. Did they take samplings from all the bullshit they've spewed and measured carbon emissions from it, multiplied that by how many times an average cow farts a day....
Bessy is my favorite cow.
Eating grass gave her a tickle.
But every time she passes gas, it costs me a friggin' nickle.
THank you for the smile. We have to keep smilin' enough throught the bull...t.
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