I couldn’t make this up if I wanted to…

TALLINN, May 8 (RIA Novosti) - Estonian farmers have received tax notices for methane emissions from their cattle, the country’s opposition party, the People’s Union of Estonia, said on Thursday.

Ruminants produce large quantities of methane gas through belching and flatulence when they digest grass, which accounts for about 15-25% of overall gas emissions, according to different estimates.

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A year after joining the Kyoto protocol, authorities in New Zealand proposed introducing a flatulence tax saying that New Zealand cattle are responsible for 90% of the country’s methane emissions and 43% of greenhouse gas emissions.

We have met the enemy… and it is cow gas. I’m mostly curious about what they hope to accomplish with a tax such as this, other than making gobs of money and applying it towards… cleaner farting cows? Hybrid cows? Hydrogen fuel cows? Of course, we know better - this has nothing to do with global warming or cow gas. It has everything to do with Kyoto providing a certain segment of politicians the cover they need to come up with innovative ways to seize their citizens’ money without having to justify what they’re going to spend it on.

Thank goodness we said no…

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