My mom recently forwarded this email to me from one of her conservative buddies. I just don't have the stomach to go through and pick every little piece apart, and quite frankly, the websites listed don't seem to be my cup of 'tea'. It's all about Cap and Trade and is included below. Please be advised that I did not write this or change one word of it. It's all just as I got it. Thanks!
Don't want to be bothered with "Political stuff?" You'd
better read this one. It will come as a huge shock to you if you aren't
informed as to what Obama is up to, and it has already passed one hurdle.
It
will take very little now to put it into actual law!! YOU'D BETTER WAKE UP
AMERICA !!!!
So you think you live in a free country. Boy have you
got a surprise coming.
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 and are being
considered by the Senate. We are ready to join the next march on
Washington
! This Congress and their "experts" are truly out to destroy the middle
class of the U.S.A.
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). This is unbelievable! Home owners
take note and tell your friends and relatives who are home owners!
Beginning one 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 "Cap & Trade" bill,
passed by the House of Representatives. If it is also passed by the
Senate,
it 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 that
these voters will get a tax refund (even if they pay no taxes at all) to
offset this new cost. Thus, you Mr. And Mrs. Middle Class 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 without some
bureaucrat's OK. Yes, you read that right.
The caveat (there always is a caveat) is 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 required 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/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 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 one year after enactment of the Act, you won't
be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with its energy
and water efficiency standards. You had better sell soon, because the
standards will be raised each year and will be really hard (expen$ive) to
meet in a few years. Oh, goody!
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. But, wait, 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 (that includes YOU?) and prevent you from
qualifying for the grants.
Most of us won't get a dime 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 the
EPA.
Some of this money will, of course, be spent on coming up with tougher
standards each year.
Oh, 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.
Remember what they said about the auto smog inspections when they first
started: that in California ? It would only cost $15. That was when the
program started. Now the cost is about $50 for the inspection and
certificate.
Expect the same 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 one 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 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 .h
tml
Cap and trade is a license to cheat and steal:
http://www.sfexamin er.com/opinion/ columns/oped_ contributors/
Cap-and-trade- is-a-license- to-cheat- and-steal- 45371937. html
Thinking about selling you House? Look at HR 2454:
http://www.federalobserver.com/2009/10/01/thinking-about-selling-your-hous e-
a-look-at-h-r-2454-cap-and-trade-bill/
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