OPPOSITION TO EPA LIVESTOCK FEE PROPOSAL
Darryal Ray, November 26, 2008

MONTGOMERY, Ala.





Ron Sparks, commissioner of Alabama’s Department of Agriculture and Industries, has criticized a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency to charge mandatory permit fees in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“The EPA would, in effect, put our livestock producers and dairy farmers out of business,” said Sparks. “At a time when we are becoming more and more reliant on other countries for our food, we should be looking for ways to help farmers, not punish them for producing the food we put on the table for our families.”

The proposal would affect any farm or ranch with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs by requiring permit fees based on tonnage of greenhouse gas emissions, which is based on emitting 100 tons or more of carbon per year.

According to the American Farm Bureau, the fee and/or tax would result in about $175 per dairy cow, $87.50 per head of beef cattle and $20 for each hog annually.

From Alabama

The EPA has lost it's mind.

This is outrageous.

That something like this would even be thought in silence let alone voiced openly for serious consideration is actually criminal based on what we know...or don't know about global warming. The government better knock some sense into these bureaucrats or there is going to be a massive backlash. This will not only hurt the farmers, but who it will hurt the most is poor families...get that...women and children... will ultimately be the ones who pay the price for this madness.

The northern hemisphere is starting to suffer one of the most difficult winters in modern history and they are still talking about global warming.

It's all about taxing the common person into submission to the government, and if the government doesn't get a handle on this it will prove that the government is nothing but a bunch of power hungry control freaks with a very twisted agenda...who need to be thrown out onto the streets...of say...Tehran. And, once they are thrown onto the streets of Iran there should be large signs hung around their necks that say something like, "Israel Rules!"....or "Honor the Rabbi!"

That should do it.

xtnyoda, shalomed