As Congress considers the Obama Administration’s proposed cap-and-trade program, Republicans recently drafted their own energy proposal that focuses heavily on nuclear power.

Republicans’ Energy Proposal (Source: New York Times)

• sets a goal of building 100 Nuclear reactors over the next 20 years
• provides incentives for increased oil and gas production on public and private lands and offshore
• authorize oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska
• does not include any mandatory cap on emissions of heat-trapping gases, relying instead on nuclear energy, natural gas and renewable fuels like wind, solar and biomass power to reduce production of the gases

Here’s a video of Senator Lamar Alexander talking…

Since the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency could declare carbon dioxide as a pollutant, the agency was ultimately given the authority to regulate methane gas — or cow farts too.

According to ClimateRealists.com, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. spoke at the Heartland Institute’s Third International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, D.C., on June 2 about the EPA’s proposed regulation:

To show you how ridiculous this is getting, the EPA has got the proposed regulation imposing a cow fart tax of $175 a year on every head of dairy cattle in the United States and $80 for beef cattle, $20…