Cap & Trade - this is very serious.
Every home owner should be aware of this.
Please read this one. It may come as a huge shock to you. It has already passed one hurdle, it will take very little now to put it into actual law.
A License Required for your HOUSE?
If you own your home you really need to check this out. At the end of this email is the Google link to verify. If the country thinks the housing market is depressed now, wait until everyone sees this; no one will be buying homes in the future.
We encourage you to read the provisions of the Cap and Trade Bill that has passed the House of Representatives (quite sure most members never really read it) and being considered by the Senate. This Congress and whoever on their staffs that write this are trying to transform the country....
A License will be required for your house...no longer just for cars and mobile homes. Thinking about selling your house? Take a look at H.R.
2454 (Cap and Trade bill). Home owners... please 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 it is also passed by the Senate, will be the largest tax increase any of us will have 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.
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.
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/she alone determines to be in the government's best interest. Requirements are set low initially 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. Sect. 202 Building Retrofit Program mandates a national retrofit program to increase the energy efficiency of all existing homes across America.
Beginning 1 year after enactment of the 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.
The Act allows the government to give you a grant of several thousand dollars to comply with the retrofit program requirements IF you meet certain energy efficiency levels. The State can set additional requirements on who qualifies to receive the grants. You should expect requirements such as "can't have an income of more than $50K per year", "home selling price can't be more than $125K", or anything else to target the upper middle class and prevent them from qualifying for the grants.
Most of us won't qualify and will have to pay the entire cost of the retrofit out of our own pockets. More transfer of wealth, more "change you can believe in." Sect. 204 Building Energy Performance Labeling Program establishes a labeling program that for each individual residence will identify the achieved energy efficiency performance for "at least 90 percent of the residential market within 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act."
This means that within 5 years 90% of all residential homes in the U.S. must be measured and labeled. The EPA administrator will get $50M each year to enforce the labeling program. The Secretary of the Department of Energy will get an additional $20M each year to help enforce the labeling program. Some of this money will, of course, be spent on coming up with tougher standards each year...
The label will be like a license for your car. You will be required to post the label in a conspicuous location in your home and will not be allowed to sell your home without having this label. And, just like your car license, you will probably be required to get a new label every so often - maybe every year.
But, the government estimates the cost of measuring the energy efficiency of your home should only cost about $200 each time.
Will this be like the auto smog inspections when they first started? In California it started costing only $15. Now the cost is about $50 for the inspection and certificate; a 333% increase. The same can be expected from the home labeling program. Sect. 304 Greater Energy Efficiency in Building Codes establishes new energy efficiency guidelines for the National Building Code and mandates at 304(d) that 1 year after enactment of this Act, all state and local jurisdictions must adopt the National Building Code energy efficiency provisions or must obtain a certification from the federal government that their state and/or local codes have been brought into full compliance with the National Building Code energy efficiency standards.
CHECK OUT Just a few of the sites;
Cap and Trade: A License Required for your Home http://www.nachi.org/forum/f14/cap-and-trade-license-required-your-home-44750/
HR2454 American Clean Energy & Security Act: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2454
Cap & Trade A license required for your home: http://www.prisonplanet.com/cap-and-trade-a-license-required-for-your-home.html
Cap and trade is a license to cheat and steal: http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/columns/oped_contributors/Cap-and-trade-is-a-license-to-cheat-and-steal-45371937.html
Cap and Trade: A License Required for your Home: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2393940/posts
Thinking about selling your House? Look at HR 2454: http://www.federalobserver.com/2009/10/01/thinking-about-selling-your-house-a-look-at-h-r-2454-cap-and-trade-bill/
www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=A+License+required+for+your+home-+Cap+and+Trade&btnG=Google+Search
It is up to us to prevent this from happening.
1|1|Hopefully it doesn't pass the Senate|Kristy|mi3zons1@yahoo.com|18:02:43|06/16/2010|
"Women should not have children after 35. Thirty-five children are enough." - anonymous (Only 28 to GO!) 2|1|They are always thinking of ways to get our money.. :-)|CJDJ112366|Lintaos@optonline.net|18:33:03|06/16/2010|
Carol 3|1|this is|joseph|parkerjoe3@yahoo.com|20:58:08|06/16/2010|
very interesting i'll have to read it again and look at some of the reference sites you put up thanks for putting all this out the senate better not pass i'm thinking many counties are struggling for money so there cutting police and school expenses,etc this sounds terrible 4|1|Check out...|sunriver|sunriver@gmail.com|23:25:06|06/16/2010|
Posted on Jun-16-10 at 11:25 PM (Eastern) by 96.39.164.227
and snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/captrade.asp
5|1|Would this apply to any other buildings? Schools etc??|missy|lovetotrade@hotmail.com|04:02:41|06/17/2010|
Or is it just for residential? More Gov't Bureaucracy!
I imagine that the impact on busineses could be major!! Many companies struggling to stay afloat, will be torpedoed by this! But it could be great for the Home Renovation industry!
Kathryn 6|2|ITS ANOTHER FALSE ALARM KATHRYN|JOYHAPPYONE|DAIDOLA5@AOL.COM|19:43:34|06/17/2010|
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7|3|Thanks! Gee, it did seem possible but I guess I am just naive.|missy|lovetotrade@hotmail.com|07:53:01|06/18/2010|
:)