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.
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.
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.
I'll take it a step further... you want to sell your house, you'll need to pass an "energy audit". Pretty subjective, of course.
Being an "Energy Auditor" for a few years might set a man up for life.
you and I will have to pay to upgrade it. << BINGO!
plus...we'll have a wonderful new bureaucracy of trough feeders to fund as well!
AND, those with big homes will be penalized in some way for not having high scores.
The inspections will be mandatory, and if your house is found deficient you will be forced to hire union labor to fix it.
You won't be allowed to fix it yourself. Code violations and all that.
We already are. There is a federal weatherization program, can't remember which alphabet agency runs it. There is currently a two year backup to get your home retrofitted.