Cap & Trade for Homeowners

[Zeb_Carter]

Are you a homeowner? Especially, do you own your own home that is more than seven or eight years old?

BOHICA. That means, "bend over, here it comes again."

Last Friday the House passed this cap-and-tax bill. It was 1,200 pages long. Not one Congressman read the darn thing. But even without reading it, some Congressmen weren't happy with it. They wanted special little goodies for their districts otherwise they weren't going to vote for it. It wasn't going to pass. So what happened? In the middle of the night, at 3am Friday morning, the Democrats filed a 300 page amendment to include all the sugar that would satisfy these recalcitrant Congressmen, and then Nancy Pelosi could count on their vote.

So now we have this 1,200 page long bill with a last-minute 300 page amendment filled with sweeteners and "place holders" … and no one really knows what's in it. But it passed.

Almost a week later, we are coming to find more details on what exactly is in the darn thing. This is where you homeowners need to pay attention. The plan is called REEP -- Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance. If you sell your house, you will be required before to sell it to retrofit your home to meet any federal green guidelines drawn up by some government hacks. It says, "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 purpose of the REEP program is to facilitate the retrofitting of existing buildings across the United States." Details? That's for the EPA to decide. Payment? Well that is up to the states to fund, and ultimately passed on to the taxpayers. Just another unfunded federal mandate.

The bottom line is that you put your home on the market, and as part of the closing process, you will have to cough up some sort of certificate to say that your home is compliant with green guidelines as promulgated by the federal Department of Energy. For example, does your home have roofing materials that reflect solar energy? That will be a requirement if you want to sell your home under green guidelines. That means that you as a homeowner will have to put a new roof on your home before you can sell it, and not just a new roof but one that reflects solar rays. How much does a new roof cost nowadays? Maybe $9,000 or $10,000. Yeah, and that's just one of the mandates. The government is going to test air quality around your home, take infrared readings of your house. How much is all of this compliance going to cost you when you try to sell your home?

Then … is this going to do anything at all to reduce global warming? Is any of this really going to make a difference? According to figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, "If we were to retrofit 3 million homes over the next decade, we would only consume 10 days less petroleum (.27% less). If we were to retrofit 10 times as many homes, 30 million, (which is almost certainly not possible to do in 10 years), we would save just 100 days of oil over a 10 year period (2.7% less)."

Isn't that just amazing, folks? If 30 million homes comply with these federal retrofit mandates, we would save about 10 days of oil a year.

So why is it in the bill? I don't know … maybe labor unions for the work that they get in all these retrofits? The businesses that would be engaged in building all these reflective roofs? I don't know … but the fact is that it is there. You let Barack Obama and the global warming nutcases out there get this cap-and-trade bill and you can bet that you will be paying out the nose as a homeowner. If you are going to get screwed, at least enjoy it.

Change you can believe in?!?!?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The 1200 page bill is a new twist in armed robbery. When the bandits show up at your door to take your furniture and tea service they hand you the 1200 page bill and advise you to read it. It takes a long time to read 1200 pages, and while youre reading theyre long gone....with your furniture and silverware.

 

[DesertPirate]

Is this another payoff to the green weenies or is a union involved again?


If implemented in full the Crap & Tax bill will not alter the temperature on this planet one single degree.

China and India are still spew more polution than any 10 other countries you can name.
But if we don't cripple our own economy there is no hope for the world
What unmittigated Bullshit!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Is this another payoff to the green weenies or is a union involved again?


If implemented in full the Crap & Tax bill will not alter the temperature on this planet one single degree.

China and India are still spew more polution than any 10 other countries you can name.
But if we don't cripple our own economy there is no hope for the world
What unmittigated Bullshit!

As I heard it, the Chinese are behind it because it will mean more American industries and jobs going to China. We owe them gozillions and theyre using our WAL-MART Dollars to bribe everyone. Plus the lawyers and Wall Street guys love ir becuz they'll make money, too.

Pissants and peons will take it in the shorts, and more middle managers will get pink slips, but who cares.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I also read where the Cap & Trade bullshit passed in Australia has been repealed as to damaging to their economy and would bankrupt the country with a couple of years.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

For now the Chinks own the carrots and the sticks, and the pols know it.

 

[Huckleman2000]

"BOHICA"!?
Why does the radical Right think that ass-rape metaphors are so funny and clever? Limbaugh always seems to be talking about somebody "bending over." It's not even the language of sex, it's the rhetoric of dominance through force.

 

[amicus]

"taking it in the ass", used to be about the worst thing you could insult a person with and Liberals are fond of prospective prisoners being told, take along a supply of KY. Rather a passe' and cliche'd poke now as it seems homosexuality is glorified and prided in public all over the place. Enough of that as an aside, the real issue is the devastating effect the "Cap & Tax" legislation will have on every one who flips a light switch or heats their home.

It is also, as the OP noted, another intrusion into the private sector by government, excused on the big stage as 'just another aspect of 'Building Codes', and an implementation of more 'green technology', riding the coat-tails of the Global Warming fanatics.

This new administration is attempting to drastically change the nature of America as a free nation and remake it in the Social Democracy pattern of the Euro Weenies.

We shall see...

Amicus

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The ass metaphor relates to being exploited without your consent.

I used to have a tee shirt. It depicted a rat caught in a trap. As he was immobilized his friends took turns sodomizing him.

 

[Handley_Page]

We have a similar thing in the UK, with the similar aim.
But it stops before the green things are fitted.
IT just reduces the price of the house.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

"BOHICA"!?
Why does the radical Right think that ass-rape metaphors are so funny and clever? Limbaugh always seems to be talking about somebody "bending over." It's not even the language of sex, it's the rhetoric of dominance through force.

Your right on that score...I'm force to give up portion of what I earn, at gun point, to be given to someone else? How is that not bending over and taking up the rear?

 

[Boxlicker101]

"BOHICA"!?
Why does the radical Right think that ass-rape metaphors are so funny and clever? Limbaugh always seems to be talking about somebody "bending over." It's not even the language of sex, it's the rhetoric of dominance through force.

Well, isn't that what the gov. is doing here? Dominating by force? Not physical force but, if you don't do what they say, you will be unable to sell your home, even though you want to sell it and move, and somebody wants to buy it and move in.

 

[DesertPirate]

Well, isn't that what the gov. is doing here? Dominating by force? Not physical force but, if you don't do what they say, you will be unable to sell your home, even though you want to sell it and move, and somebody wants to buy it and move in.

Just more of Washington sticking their nose in where they have no right!
A bunch of socialist bullshit!