Introducing ObamaCow :: SteynOnline
by Mark Steyn
Steyn on America
March 30, 2014
I think it was Ed Driscoll who cautioned the Obama Administration that After America was not meant to be an instruction manual. (By the way, personally autographed copies of AA are exclusively available from SteynOnline, he pleads with an eye to his legal bills.) Notwithstanding that advice, page 114 of After America:
That's the question the developed world is facing: Where's it going to come from? A new tax? There's nothing left to tax. By 2009, Europe was reduced to considering a levy on bovine flatulence. You heard that right - not a flat tax but a flatulence tax.
Breaking news re breaking wind:
White House Looks To Regulate Cow Flatulence As Part Of Climate Agenda
The science is settled and so is the flatulence:
The White House has proposed cutting methane emissions from the dairy industry by 25 percent by 2020. Although U.S. agriculture only accounts for about 9 percent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, it makes up a sizeable portion of methane emissions — which is a very potent greenhouse gas.
In After America, I noted the complexity of the proposed flatulence regime:
Ireland was pondering a tax of 13 euros per cow, while in Denmark it was as high as 80 euros per cow. Is a Danish Holstein six times as flatulent as an Irish Hereford? Beats me. But somewhere in Brussels there's a Director of the European Flatulence Agency of Regulation and Taxation (EuroFart) who's got all the graphs.-go to links-
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