'Taxing' farts and burps (New Zealand)

[Krandall]

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7646857.stm

Phil, do you know anything about this?   

This is just an excerp from the actual article... interesting....

New Zealand's climate means sheep and cows can graze outdoors all year 
Frank Brenmuhl is a bluff New Zealand farmer who could talk the hindlegs off a donkey and, more to the point, off a politician proposing to tax the gas that comes out of his cows.

Mr Brenmuhl has just turned 60 and he has been a dairy farmer on the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand since he was 29.

He worked his way up from farm labourer to farm manager to farm owner, five generations after his great-great-grandfather fled as far as he possibly could from the politics of Poland and Germany in the 1870s.

Now, Frank has encountered a different sort of politics: the environmental politics of New Zealand. And he is not happy about it.

So much so that he now spends much of his time away from the farm, lobbying in Wellington on behalf of the country's dairy farmers.

[Peelz]

Even better than my "charging for oxygen per breath" idea!!!!!

I actually heard a story on NPR about this. I could tell on the radio they were from NZ or Aus. They pronounce methane:    mEE-thane. 

[Krandall]

those guys over there are weird..

Aloom-inum (to us...)

Al-you-mini-um (to them)

[Busby]

Speak the queens english   

[Peelz]

Speak the queens english   

bet you could translate!