EPA Spent $700,000 to Reduce Pig Flatulence in Thailand

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If we could reclassify the EPA as pig flatulence, we could get the EPA to fund its own elimination.

A report released by Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake found numerous examples of EPA mismanagement and excess, including employees illegitimately spending $15 million on agency credit cards and $9 million the agency lost track of funding projects in California.

Happens to everyone. One time I lost track of $12 million in Arizona and couldn’t find it for a week.

$1,500,000 annually to store out-of-date and unwanted publications at an Ohio warehouse” and another “$700,000 to attempt to reduce methane emitted from pig flatulence in Thailand.”

They attempted to do it. If you’re going to spend $700K on pig flatulence, then can’t you at least succeed at whatever you were trying to do?

 

  • Chris Gait

    Well, I’m sure the project required a lot of EPA junkets to the bars and whore houses of Thailand, so they consider it money well spent. If in doubt they can proclaim: ‘Global warming!’ and all expenditures are instantly above reproach.

    • kiwi41

      Freedom of Information requests on incurred expenses on the ” fact finding missions ” anybody ?

      • BS77

        Maybe the EPA should check on all the flatulence coming from inside the belt way

        • kiwi41

          Nice one !

  • Bamaguje

    What’s EPA doing in Thailand anyway?
    Isn’t that way outside their U.S. jurisdiction?
    Or is EPA now an international agency… meddling into pig fart?

    • Contemptuous Maximus

      My brother Flatulus has gone into hiding in fear of them

    • objectivefactsmatter

      “Interconnectedness.”

      http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/interconnectedness

      interconnectedness

      [in-ter-kuh-nek-tid-nis] Spell Syllables

      Examples

      Word Origin

      noun

      1. the quality or condition of being interconnected; interrelatedness:

      the interconnectedness of all nations working toward world peace.

      IOW, globalism and statism merge.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    I’m not surprised that the EPA is operating in such exotic places as Thailand. After all, the DEA is in South America and other places combating poppy fields — to no measurable effect, either. It’s the never-ending War on Drugs. Now we’re burdened with the War on Porcine Flatulence. Are cows next? The War on Bovine Methane Emissions? Maybe they’ve already declared war but just haven’t announced it.

    • objectivefactsmatter

      If people are importing drugs it’s “logical” to assume that pig farts are also being “imported” by way of our radically interconnected global environment, dude.

      Good thing bong hits are carbon neutral. Legalize pot and outlaw pig farts. That’s the ticket!

    • kiwi41

      NZ has the dubious ” honor ” of being the first bunch of f-c-u-k wits to initiate studies to control / tax Bovine Flatulence .

      The inmates are running the asylum.

  • cree

    I’m trying to imagine EPA employees trying to convince the locals what their intent was and any experiment methods to carry out such a world worthy goal. The Thais could participate in history; but more likely they were chosen to obscure the ridicule; I doubt it would have gone over well here. The EPA is Gestapo-like; a disgusting embarrassment, becoming more and more an incompetent waste of our money and worth.

  • kafir4life

    That’s a nice picture of the head of the EPA at the top of the article, who by the way, is a known child molester.

  • objectivefactsmatter

    So where handing out pork internationally quite often these days. Great.

    More “social justice” for ya.

  • Lillith

    I live in Thailand, actually Phuket, I haven’t heard or smelt a pig fart for yonks. Thanks USA, it seems your money was well spent. IDIOTS!

  • SoCalMike

    Humans are most creative when figuring out how to live at the expense of others and putting themselves in a position to force others to pay for us.
    See socialism, communism, fascism, slavery and Islam.

  • kafir4life

    Why should it cost 700k for a cork to be used when Michelle Obama visits the country? Sure it’s gotta be a really wide cork, but 700k seems excessive.

  • CowboyUp

    If the EPA were really concerned about methane, they’d be draining swamps. But swamps are sacred to the EPA, so it’s not about methane, it’s about food. The USA’s food abundance and high standard of living have always been an embarrassment to the left/dp. It’s hard to argue that socialism is better when it so obviously isn’t.

  • DVult

    How much do large corks cost anyway?