Posted on 11/24/2009 6:06:11 PM PST by Libloather
Cap and Trade: A License Required for your Home
Frank M. Carrio, CMI
ESOP Committee Member
11/3/09, 12:29 AM
We encourage you to read the provisions of the Cap and Trade Bill that has passed the House of Representatives and being considered by the Senate. We are ready to join the next march on Washington!
This Congress and whoever on their staffs that write this junk are truly out to destroy the middle class of the USA....
A License Required for your house
Thinking about selling your house - A look at H.R. 2454 (Cap and trade bill) This is unbelievable!
Only the beginning from this administration! Home owners take note & tell your friends and relatives who are home owners!
Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Cap and Trade Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act. H.R. 2454, the "Cap & Trade" bill passed by the House of Representatives, if also passed by the Senate, will be the largest tax increase any of us has ever experienced.
The Congressional Budget Office (supposedly non-partisan) estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four will be $6,800 per year. No one is excluded.
However, once the lower classes feel the pinch in their wallets, you can be sure these voters get a tax refund (even if they pay no taxes at all) to offset this new cost. Thus, you Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class America will have to pay even more since additional tax dollars will be needed to bail out everyone else.
But wait. This awful bill (that no one in Congress has actually read) has many more surprises in it. Probably the worst one is this:
A year from now you won't be able to sell your house. Yes, you read that right.
The caveat is (there always is a caveat) that if you have enough money to make required major upgrades to your home, then you can sell it. But, if not, then forget it. Even pre-fabricated homes ("mobile homes") are included.
In effect, this bill prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the EPA administrator. To get this permission, you will have to have the energy efficiency of your home measured.
Then the government will tell you what your new energy efficiency requirement is and you will be forced to make modifications to your home under the retrofit provisions of this Act to comply with the new energy and water efficiency requirements.
Then you will have to get your home measured again and get a license (called a "label" in the Act) that must be posted on your property to show what your efficiency rating is; sort of like the Energy Star efficiency rating label on your refrigerator or air conditioner.
If you don't get a high enough rating, you can't sell. And, the EPA administrator is authorized to raise the standards every year, even above the automatic energy efficiency increases built into the Act.
The EPA administrator, appointed by the President, will run the Cap & Trade program (AKA the "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009") and is authorized to make any future changes to the regulations and standards he alone determines to be in the government's best interest. Requirements are set low initial y so the bill will pass Congress; then the Administrator can set much tougher new standards every year.
The Act itself contains annual required increases in energy efficiency for private and commercial residences and buildings.
However, the EPA administrator can set higher standards at any time.
Head’s up on this.
Nailed it!
Lot’s and lot’s and lot’s.
When people are backed into a corner, they may do just about anything.
oathkeepers.org
There will never be enough rope to hang them all, but we should try.
Snopes has been wrong. Who Snopes Snopes?
WTF . . . Ping for further . . . I don’t know what.
It just keeps getting worse.
My brother *IS* an appliance repairman, and he is most explicitly NOT going to get rich from anything the 0bamites could dream (draem, deram ?) up. He’s a “typical white boy’, just trying to do an honest day’s work for an honest wage.
Your inference that appliance repairmen are going to profit from some infernal conspiracy is even stupider than the 9/11 gang.
Do you really think that every appliance repairman (there must be at least 50 THOUSAND!, of ALL races in North America) is part of your contrived idiocy?
You must have attended publik skool.
I was merely trying to point out another consequence of the Cap&Trade bill. I would hope that the appliance repairmen would try to repair as long as parts were available.
I wasn’t inferring that anyone would get rich! Remember, these are the “spread the wealth” folks. There WILL be some who will go for the bounty ( or whatever it is called - a friend read it and told me about it.) Just like NOW, there are some unscrupulous folks out there who would turn a fuse upside down and tell me I needed a whole new A/C unit.
I most certainly did NOT attend publik skool.
Really. But they will probably put a giant tax on houses that fall victim to fire.
The label is exactly that. "Energy Star" for homes. For now it's voluntary, or one of the many strings tied to gubmint (OUR) money. It also applies, for now, to new construction only.
I attended a session recently where Sam Rashskin the EPA bureaucrat in charge of the Energy Star program was talking about the upcoming 2011 (V3) program for homes. It gets even more draconian than the previous versions. The guy had absolute glee when he was talking about the ultimate goal for this iteration of the standard. Behavior Modification. I was glad to be in the back of the venue. I did not want to be tempted to punch him in the face.
Well know that I wrote about it, it would be a bad idea. Sometimes you have to think these things all the way through.
Very interesting. Thanks for reporting.
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