Cap and Trade: A License Required for your Home

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As much as I try to avoid politics it seems that our Congressional "absoluteidiocy & madness" continues to grow daily! Who in the world elected thesepower mad greedy idiots to govern the affairs of we Americans? Don't youpersonally think that we have to stop all of this attempt to destroy Americaonce and for-ever "NOW!" I don't know about you but I'm getting involved inevery way that I can, because it has to "STOP NOW!" Jonathon BETTER READ HOMEOWNERS!! !!!!! Frank M. Carrio, CMI ESOP Committee Member Join Jan 2004 Posts: 3,968 Cap and Trade: A License Required for your Home We encourage you to read the provisions of the Cap and Trade Bill that haspassed the House of Representatives and being considered by the Senate. Weare ready to join the next march on Washington! This Congress and whoever on their staffs that write this junk are truly outto 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 & tellyour friends and relatives who are home owners! Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Cap and Trade Act, you won't be ableto sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and waterefficiency standards of this Act. H.R. 2454, the "Cap & Trade" bill passedby the House of Representatives, if also passed by the Senate, will be thelargest tax increase any of us has ever experienced. The Congressional Budget Office (supposedly non-partisan) estimates that injust a few years the average cost to every family of four will be $6,800 peryear.No one is excluded. However, once the lower classes feel the pinch in their wallets, you can besure these voters get a tax refund (even if they pay no taxes at all) tooffset this new cost. Thus, you Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class America will haveto pay even more since additional tax dollars will be needed to bail outeveryone else. But wait. This awful bill (that no one in Congress has actually read) hasmany 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 thatright. The caveat is (there always is a caveat) that if you have enough money tomake required major upgrades to your home, then you can sell it. But, if notthen forget it. Even pre-fabricated homes ("mobile homes") are included. In effect, this bill prevents you from selling your home without thepermission of the EPA administrator. To get this permission, you will have to have the energy efficiency of yourhome measured. Then the government will tell you what your new energy efficiencyrequirement is and you will be forced to make modifications to your homeunder the retrofit provisions of this Act to comply with the new energy andwater efficiency requirements. Then you will have to get your home measured again and get a license (calleda "label" in the Act) that must be posted on your property to show what yourefficiency rating is; sort of like the Energy Star efficiency rating labelon your refrigerator or air conditioner. If you don't get a high enough rating, you can't sell. And, the EPAadministrator is authorized to raise the standards every year, even abovethe automatic energy efficiency increases built into the Act. The EPA administrator, appointed by the President, will run the Cap & Tradeprogram (AKA the "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009") and isauthorized to make any future changes to the regulations and standards healone determines to be in the government's best interest. Requirements areset low initial y so the bill will pass Congress; then the Administrator canset much tougher new standards every year. The Act itself contains annual required increases in energy efficiency forprivate and commercial residences and buildings. However, the EPA administrator can set higher standards at any time. Sect. 202: Building Retrofit Program mandates a national retrofit program to increasethe energy efficiency of all existing homes across America . Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Act, you won't be able to sell yourhome unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiencystandards of this Act. You had better sell soon, because the standards will be raised each year andwill be really hard (i.e., ex$pen$ive) to meet in a few years. Oh, goody!The Act allows the government to give you a grant of several thousanddollars to comply with the retrofit program requirements if you meet certainenergy efficiency levels. But, wait, the State can set additionalrequirements on who qualifies to receive the grants. You should expect requirements such as "can't have an income of more than$50K per year", "home selling price can't be more than $125K", or anythingelse to target the upper middle class (and that's YOU) and prevent them fromqualifying for the grants. Most of us won't get a dime and will have to pay the entire cost of theretrofit out of our own pockets. More transfer of wealth, more "change youcan believe in." Sect. 204: Building Energy Performance Labeling Program establishes a labeling programthat for each individual residence will identify the achieved energyefficiency performance for "at least 90 percent of the residential marketwithin 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act." This means that within 5 years 90% of all residential homes in the U.S. mustbe measured and labeled. The EPA administrator will get $50M each year toenforce the labeling program. The Secretary of the Department of Energy willget an additional $20M each year to help enforce the labeling program. Someof this money will, of course, be spent on coming up with tougher standardseach year. Oh, the label will be like a license for your car. You will be required topost the label in a conspicuous location in your home and will not beallowed to sell your home without having this label. And, just like your car license, you will probably be required to get a newlabel every so often - maybe every year. But, the government estimates the cost of measuring the energy efficiency ofyour home should only cost about $200 each time. Remember what they said about the auto smog inspections when they firststarted: that in California it would only cost $15. That was when theprogram started. Now the cost is about $50 for the inspection andcertificate; a 333% increase. Expect the same from the home labeling programSect. 304: Greater Energy Efficiency in Building Codes establishes new energyefficiency guidelines for the National Building Code and mandates at 304(d),Application of National Code to State and Local Jurisdictions, that 1 yearafter enactment of this Act, all state and local jurisdictions must adoptthe National Building Code energy efficiency provisions or must obtain acertification from the federal government that their state and/or localcodes have been brought into full compliance with the National Building Codeenergy efficiency standards. a license required for your home - Google Search H.R. 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (GovTrack.us) ____________ ______ Signed, Frank Carrio, CMI Certified Master Inspector & Consultant Certified Commercial Building Inspector Certified, WDI Inspector Founder & Current President, New Hampshire State Chapter NACHI NACHI, State Representative for Legislative Affairs Retired: ICC Certified Member Retired: Code Compliance Inspector. 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