Cows' gas causes discomfort in SW Florida | news-press.com | The News-Press

And, if cows should be included in a new rule, "what are they going to do about the millions and millions of deer, elk, buffalo and other wild ruminants in this country?" mused Dallas Townsend. He's a retired Hendry County Extension Service director who still raises a few head of cattle.
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"The tax for dairies would be $175 per cow per year, for beef, $87.50 per head per year, and the tax on hogs would be a little more than $20 per hog per year."

In Florida, ranch consultant Grigsby said: "We could not sustain an $87 tax ... Florida beef producers basically broke even last year, and this year could lose money."

Kevin Rudd, climate change sceptic?

David Hand writes: Finally, Andrew Bolt has some illustrious company. Yes, that’s right. All you warriors for the beleaguered planet, defenders of Gaia, champions of our carbon reduction crusade have a new enemy. Kevin Rudd, beloved of 70% of us, patron of Channel Seven and "generally good bloke here to help" is a climate change sceptic.

CQ Politics | Energy and Climate Front and Center For Obama Administration

But not everybody was happy with the picks. Sen James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the Senate Environment panel’s ranking Republican and the leading congressional skeptic of man-made global warming, criticized the choice of Browner.

“She is a proud liberal who has long advocated an environmentalist agenda that would drive-up energy costs on families and put thousands of Americans out of jobs,” Inhofe said. “At a time when the economy is already suffering, it will be interesting to see how President Obama will reconcile what seems to be conflicting agendas in the White House.”