Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/08/2009 11:23:26 AM PDT by RicocheT
"I bet you thought that if you bought a house, you actually own it and can, with reasonable exceptions, do with it what you want. You probably think that if you want to live in a log cabin, with wood stoves that belch smoke into the air for heat, and an old washer and dryer that don't have those little EnergyStar stickers on them you can because it's your life and your property. You paid for it with money you earned with the sweat of your brow and what the heck is America anyhow if a body can't live in the home they want furnished with the appliances they want?"
Ah, silly you. You didn't reckon on the Democratic Party's desire to control every miniscule aspect of your life.
Let me introduce you to a little section of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill called the "Building Energy Performance Labeling Program". It's section 304 of the bill and it says, basically, that your house belongs to the state. See, the Federal Government really wants a country full of energy-efficient homes, so much so that the bill mandates that new homes be 30 percent more energy efficient than the current building code on the very day the law is signed. That efficiency goes up to 50 percent by 2014 and only goes higher from there, all the way to 2030. That, by the way, is not merely a target but a requirement of the law. New homes must reach those efficiency targets no matter what.
But what does that have to do with current homeowners like you? Well, I'm glad you asked. You're certainly not off the hook, no way, no how. Here's what the Democrats have planned for you."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanissuesproject.org ...
If you live in a town or city with zoning, you probably have had to have an inspection when selling your house to bring it up to code. That can cost a lot of money on an older property. The Omama Greens want it taken to the next level and make you upgrade your energy use equipment on the property as well. States and cities will have to do the same with public property so that's another expense individual taxpayers will assume. This c[r]ap and Trade{Tax] Bill is going to cost us $$$$$.
Will they offer you $4,500 to buy your parent’s “Clunker House” when they die?
We need to take a copy of it and BURN it on the steps of the capitol.
Markey didn’t show up this year on the 4th.
Note to self “Reload and Repeat”
This bill must die. Call your Senators.
So basically the 30 year old house that I bought 7 months ago I’m going to be stuck in for the rest of my life because it will probably cost me more to bring it up to crap-and-tax regulations then it would to tear the thing down and sell the bare land.
Nice.
Depends directly with how much ammo you have stored for the "inspectors".
The housing market is still in the toilet. These requirements make almost every house unsellable in its current state, without expensive rehab. Yeah, that will help the market!
I wrote a letter to my congressman turncoat Dave Riechert, and he responded with his pre-written I did it for the country response. I'll clip this and send it to him and ask him if this was in the portion he read before voting.
LOLOL
And to think...all this crap and tax for “global warming” which doesn’t even exist. I figure it’s basically a way to hog-tie the US so we can be given to the UN so our wealth can be spread to Kenya..etc.
I saw some ads this weekend that Riechert was running on TV - trying to make himself look like a good guy.
He must figure that lefty Seattle wouldn’t vote him out for this.
My congressman is Mc Dermott - I didn’t even bother trying to write him.
On the brighter side it will sure stimulate the sale of existing homes....
It seems like the present ‘administration’ is determined to introduce serfdom to the United States.... AFTER it has been dead (thankfully) and buried these many years everywhere else on earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The democrat running for re-election (Rick Boucher) in SW VA has a radio ad on which claimes the tax increase due to cap and tax will amount to only peenies per household. Democrats are liars. Sadly, democrat voters appear to like electing liars to public office.
Time to contact your state legislators
and demand they pass an opt-out or nullification law for this provision.
There are sure gonna be a lot of houses burning down.
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