Posted on 01/13/2014 8:14:17 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
I’ll tell you EXACTLY where this is going.
The “poor” will be able to get a “free energy audit”, and anywhere their house doesn’t meet the standard,
you and I will have to pay to upgrade it.
They must lie awake at night thinking up ways to waste our time and money.
The working people, we will be forced to pay for our own audit, our own upgrades to meet the new government standards. If we don’t comply, there will be a “tax”, for which some new mandatory withholding will come into play, just so they are sure to collect the “tax”, once they see that 0bamacare fines cannot be collected from refunds alone.
The Gov will determine if your house is up to their specifications before you can sell. Just another sure fire way to destroy wealth........take the equity to fix up and then sell for the price before the Gov was involved.
Considering the current rate of American decline its probably appropriate since we’ll all be living in our cars before long.
Then they will mandate those “smart” thermostats like they do down in Austin. I have several coworkers whose a/c, heater get “governed” at different times. One gal said her thermostat was set at 85 from 8am to 8pm for a week once.
Soon it will be MANDATORY...................
Gell-Mann's Totalitarian Principle states: "Everything not forbidden is compulsory."
A chasm divides the ability to score an automobile and a dwelling.
With a car, there typically isn’t any ‘guaranteed’ record of the fuel use, thus a person need to take the guys word as to the mileage the car gets.
With a house, records are typically available from the utility company going back years and years, so a buyer can see what the actual costs to warm and cool the house are.
First they measure, then they regulate.
Hello, I’m from the Department of Energy and I’m here to help you.
create a fake crisis:global warming
then grow government , control us more, take away our money and freedom. in one word:socialism
government already banned lightbulbs to save us from global warming that doesn't exist
government is the problem and the enemy .so is the news media
Interesting. Where I live, you don’t need a building permit to build a house. It’s one of the reasons I moved here. I wonder how they would enforce such a thing without coming up with a federal building permit. Talk about sleazy. The FedGov is a problem. This problem needs to be solved. I guess the TEA party is all we have.
Excess energy usage tax coming. They will use all the same lines, just change ‘fat cat’ to ‘energy hog’ because the energy is unevenly distributed.
Our states need to regrow their testicles as well.
I confess that the only reason I don’t worry about this stuff is it is a bit like being in Germany in 1944 and sweating over the stuff the Nazi regime has announced it is going to implement in 1946.
If you get my drift...
What If you have solar power on your property?
Put an incandescent bulb under the thermostat... :)
Yeah... I’m just taking care of the fam, not worrying too much about what the left/world has planned for everyone else.
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