If you were thinking of selling your home, you might as well forget about it.
You'll have to spend thousands to help battle the global warming hoax first.
Under the new democratic cap and trade legislation all US homes will have to meet strict government eco-standards before they can be sold. This will cost homeowners thousands of dollars before the home can even be put up for sale.
CNS News reported, via Free Republic:The 1,400-page cap-and-trade legislation pushed through by House Democrats contains a new federal policy that residential, commercial, and government buildings be retrofitted to increase energy efficiency, leaving it up to the states to figure out exactly how to do that.More... 56% of Americans don't want to spend more on energy costs to green the environment.
This means that homeowners, for example, could be required to retrofit their homes to meet federal “green” guidelines in order to sell their homes, if the cap-and-trade bill becomes law.
The bill, which now goes to the Senate, directs the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and implement a national policy for residential and commercial buildings. The purpose of such a strategy – known as the Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) – would be to “facilitate” the retrofitting of existing buildings nationwide.
“The Administrator shall develop and implement, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, standards for a national energy and environmental building retrofit policy for single-family and multi-family residences,” the bill reads.
It continues: “The purpose of the REEP program is to facilitate the retrofitting of existing buildings across the United States.”
The bill leaves the definition of a retrofit and the details of the REEP program up to the EPA. However, states are responsible for ensuring that the government’s plans are carried out, whatever the final details may entail.
“States shall maintain responsibility for meeting the standards and requirements of the REEP program,” the bill says.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Dems Cap & Tax Bill Requires All Homes to Meet Eco-Standards Before They Can Be Sold
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Don't you have to be eating tofu and drinking soy milk at the closing as well?
The green movement is a sham and a stupid fad. If there are any positives from the current state of our economy, one of them would be is that the green movement has been heavily deflated, but is unfortunately still alive. Basically, my position on the green movement is the same as the late George Carlin's, which many of you are familiar with.
This aspect of Cap and Trade is dangerous in the extreme!
Many of us approaching retirement age are planning to sell our homes and downsize.
With Cap and Trade, our profit on the sale of our home will be tanked. Furthermore, purchasing a greenie home will be damned expensive -- you can bet your ass on THAT.
BTW, I posted on the one loophole. I learned about that loophole last night at a political meeting.
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