[AT] Speaking of propane:-: Methane

[Frank]

Steve
All they need to do is catch the methane and burn it in cars........

Frank

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Offiler" <soffiler at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Speaking of propane:-: Methane


> While I completely agree that this is utterly insane, consider this:
>
> Methane is a powerful "greenhouse gas".  It is many times more potent
> than CO2 and all this "carbon footprint" crap we hear about
> constantly.  One of the most significant sources of methane is
> livestock.
>
> They're literally trying to discourage the raising of livestock by
> making it more expensive to do so.
>
> But as Mike Sloane said to me recently in private email, "there are no
> simple solutions to complex problems" and global warming is a VERY
> complex problem.
>
> Among all the various idiotic aspects of this, you've got no control
> over livestock anywhere else in the world.  Suddenly imported meat and
> dairy is cheaper.  And we send yet another industry overseas right
> behind Manufacturing.
>
> I am afraid, very afraid.
>
> Steve O.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:34 PM, CEE VILL <cvee60 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Please stop the world and let me off. I do not feel like I fit in the 
>> Earth's society any more.  Read on if you wish.
>>
>>           "With the economy in bad shape and
>> the possibility of a deep recession looming, the Environmental
>> Protection Agency is proposing to levy new taxes—on cows and pigs,"
>> American Farm Bureau Federation Director of Regulatory Relations Rick
>> Krause told Wyoming Farm Bureau members at their annual meeting.
>> Krause spoke in Sheridan on Nov. 7. (Commonly referred to as a fart tax.)
>>            "This is no
>> laughing matter," Krause said.  "The cow tax and the pig tax are parts
>> of a larger scheme by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to
>> regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act."
>> "Under the proposal, if a state charged the "presumptive minimum rate"
>> from the EPA, the cow tax would be $175 per dairy cow, $87.50 per head
>> for beef cattle and a little more than $20 per pig," Krause explained. 
>> (Clearly the regulators like steak better than milk.)
>> Could anyone name a few celebrities and congress persons who could 
>> probably out gas a cow about two to one??How long will it be before 
>> collector tractors come under the same attack??I guess a new tax will 
>> prevent a cow from passing gas.  Holy cow.  Who could have guessed that. 
>> The inmates really are running the asylum.Charlie V. in WNY
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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