Mountaintop removal mining and camel food

So how does a Kentucky legislator introduce legislation to ban mountaintop removal mining if previous efforts have failed?

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Lawmakers have begun hearings on a proposal that could effectively halt mountaintop removal coal mining.

State Rep. Don Pasley of Winchester maneuvered the proposal into a bill that would exempt camel food from the state sales tax. The move allowed the bill to be considered in the House Appropriations and Revenue Committee on Tuesday.

It would forbid coal companies from filling streams and valleys with soil and rock loosened in surface mining operations.

Appropriations and Revenue Chairman Harry Moberly is sponsor of the camel-tax bill. Moberly said the proposal had been denied a fair hearing in the House Natural Resources and Environmental Committee for the past four years.

Everyone who knew there was a grassroots effort to alleviate the burden caused by the sales tax on camel food, raise your hand.

On second thought, "camel food" might be slang for something I don't want to know about, so let's drop it.

If "camel food" really is food for camels, then introducing that bill so you could add the mountaintop removal mining provision later was pretty smart.