Cap and Trade: A License Required for your Home (Thinking about selling your house? HA!)

Nachi ^ | 11/03/09 | Frank M. Carrio

[Libloather]

Cap and Trade: A License Required for your Home
Frank M. Carrio, CMI
ESOP Committee Member
11/3/09, 12:29 AM

We encourage you to read the provisions of the Cap and Trade Bill that has passed the House of Representatives and being considered by the Senate. We are ready to join the next march on Washington!

This Congress and whoever on their staffs that write this junk are truly out to 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 & tell your friends and relatives who are home owners!

Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Cap and Trade Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act. H.R. 2454, the "Cap & Trade" bill passed by the House of Representatives, if also passed by the Senate, will be the largest tax increase any of us has ever experienced.

The Congressional Budget Office (supposedly non-partisan) estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four will be $6,800 per year. No one is excluded.

However, once the lower classes feel the pinch in their wallets, you can be sure these voters get a tax refund (even if they pay no taxes at all) to offset this new cost. Thus, you Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class America will have to pay even more since additional tax dollars will be needed to bail out everyone else.

But wait. This awful bill (that no one in Congress has actually read) has many 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 that right.

The caveat is (there always is a caveat) that if you have enough money to make required major upgrades to your home, then you can sell it. But, if not, then forget it. Even pre-fabricated homes ("mobile homes") are included.

In effect, this bill prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the EPA administrator. To get this permission, you will have to have the energy efficiency of your home measured.

Then the government will tell you what your new energy efficiency requirement is and you will be forced to make modifications to your home under the retrofit provisions of this Act to comply with the new energy and water efficiency requirements.

Then you will have to get your home measured again and get a license (called a "label" in the Act) that must be posted on your property to show what your efficiency rating is; sort of like the Energy Star efficiency rating label on your refrigerator or air conditioner.

If you don't get a high enough rating, you can't sell. And, the EPA administrator is authorized to raise the standards every year, even above the automatic energy efficiency increases built into the Act.

The EPA administrator, appointed by the President, will run the Cap & Trade program (AKA the "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009") and is authorized to make any future changes to the regulations and standards he alone determines to be in the government's best interest. Requirements are set low initial y so the bill will pass Congress; then the Administrator can set much tougher new standards every year.

The Act itself contains annual required increases in energy efficiency for private and commercial residences and buildings.

However, the EPA administrator can set higher standards at any time.

[Spunky]

BUILDING RETROFIT PROGRAM

H.R. 2454 SEC. 202

[tallyhoe]

I know this Sux if they ever push this through!

[AnimalLover]

A few more interesting sites concerning HR 2454:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2454

http://www.prisonplanet.com/cap-and-trade-a-license-required-for-your-home.html

http://www.federalobserver.com/2009/10/01/thinking-about-selling-your-house-a-look-at-h-r-2454-cap-and-trade-bill/

http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/columns/oped_contributors/Cap-and-trade-is-a-license-to-cheat-and-steal-45371937.html

[CamJo]

Yes, please do not have more energy efficient homes. Whatever you do keep using extra fossil fuels to heat and cool your homes. Energy efficiency is a big conspiracy, don’t fall for it, and don’t let the government force or encourage people to be use less energy. Because, if you use less energy, who knows, I might not be able to afford bomb making equipment for myself and my fellow jihadists.

[ncdave4life]

Man With A Gun wrote:

According to Snopes.com, this is false.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/captrade.asp

TruthOrFiction agrees with Snopes that this is false. See:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/HR-2454-American-Clean-Energy-Act.htm>

Note that although the Mikkelsons (who run Snopes) lean slightly to the left, the folks who run TruthOrFiction are conservative Christians, dedicated to God's Truth. When Snopes and TruthOrFiction agree, you can generally take it to the bank.

Also, see this page:
http://www.up2daterealestate.com/2009/07/08/will-cap-trade-affect-home-sales-an-update/

If it passes, the Cap & Trade bill will be a huge disaster, and it will greatly increase the tax burden on American citizens, with no resulting environmental benefit. However, this article is not accurate.

Although an earlier version of the bill apparently proposed requiring home energy audits & a federal permit to sell a house, the version passed by the House does not do so. (It is still a very, very bad bill!)