Estonian Tax Code

genlock · Post by **genlock** » Fri May 09, 2008 7:19 am

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.

A single cow produces on average 350 liters of methane and 1,500 liters of carbon dioxide per day.

"For Copa-Cogeca, an organization that unites farmers of the European Union, the information received from Estonian farmers came as a huge surprise, and they could not recall a similar precedent in any EU country," said the party's spokesman, Jaanus Marrandi.

No other EU country imposes a flatulence tax on farmers.

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.

Big Media · Post by **Big Media** » Fri May 09, 2008 9:19 am

Oh shit.

Dr. Whiplash · Post by **Dr. Whiplash** » Fri May 09, 2008 9:31 am

Big Media wrote:Oh shit.

No don't.

cgarison · Post by **cgarison** » Fri May 09, 2008 9:34 am

It was funny to hear that the cattle living in the world are producing more greenhouse emissions than all of the cars and powerplants that burn fossil fuels.

I guess we have to give up steak, cheese, and leather couches if we want to stop global warming. Football season is going to suck.

AmpedNow · Post by **AmpedNow** » Fri May 09, 2008 6:22 pm

cgarison wrote:It was funny to hear that the cattle living in the world are producing more greenhouse emissions than all of the cars and powerplants that burn fossil fuels.

Really?

genlock · Post by **genlock** » Fri May 09, 2008 6:27 pm

If cattle produce that much emissions, what about Italians?

CoolBreeze · Post by **CoolBreeze** » Sun May 11, 2008 9:22 pm

I contacted 4 of my friends in Estonia (including one government official) and they all agreed that this report out of RUSSIA was completely bogus. The day this report appeared was the one year anniversary of the small riots they had in Tallinn over a Russian soldier statue.

genlock · Post by **genlock** » Mon May 12, 2008 5:31 am

I saw the news story on the internet, so I thought it must be true.

fearpeddler · Post by **fearpeddler** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:11 am

cgarison wrote:It was funny to hear that the cattle living in the world are producing more greenhouse emissions than all of the cars and powerplants that burn fossil fuels.

I guess we have to give up steak, cheese, and leather couches if we want to stop global warming. Football season is going to suck.

I remember hearing about the cattle emissions problem back in the 90's.... thats a totally wasted resource, why arent we harnessing those farts and burps?

CoolBreeze · Post by **CoolBreeze** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:15 pm

fearpeddler wrote:I remember hearing about the cattle emissions problem back in the 90's.... thats a totally wasted resource, why arent we harnessing those farts and burps?

If we could, Nunley alone could provide enough energy to light up St Albans.

ashton · Post by **ashton** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:51 pm

If you include the miracle mile on a saturday night, I don't think Nunley could do it, but any other day of the week... No problem.

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