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This is a lengthly read, but worth your time.


Remember to vote these guys out in November.









If you doubt the legitimacy of this article then clink on the links at the end of the article. This is what the nuts in Washington are in the process of doing now.


Something every home owner should be made aware of!

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 apparently 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 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 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! 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 it is 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 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/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. You had better sell soon, because the standards will be raised each year and will be really hard (I.e., expensive) 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 (and that's YOU) and prevent them 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 enforce the labeling program. 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; a 333% increase. 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 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...red-your-home-44750/

HR2454 American Clean Energy & Security Act: http://www.govtrack.us/congres...l.xpd?bill=h111-2454

Cap & Trade A license required for your home: http://www.prisonplanet.com/ca...d-for-your-home.html

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

Cap and Trade: A License Required for your Home: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2393940/posts

Thinking about selling you House? Look at HR 2454: http://www.federalobserver.com...-cap-and-trade-bill/


www.google.com/search?hl=en&so...e&btnG=Google+Search

This is bad.....real bad....these guys MUST be stopped, stopped now, and stopped HARD!!!!

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I call BS on this one, typical fear-mongering urban legend. I think if this thing was as doomsday as the original email indicates the National Association of Realtors would be up in arms about it. If we couldn't sell houses they would be out of a job.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/captrade.asp

http://urbanlegends.about.com/.../a/cap_and_trade.htm

http://www.realtor.org/governm..._energy_security_act
This was a forwarded E-mail that you copy and pasted. The links only say the exact same thing you copy and pasted. I am not taking sides but spreading ridiculous ignorant chain mail to try and scare people is unnecessary. Do your research. Did you even bother to click in your own links?
Here is a link of my own...included is the b.s. email you just copy and pasted to scary everyone followed by an explanation of the urban myth. Have a nice day.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/.../a/cap_and_trade.htm

Analysis: This much is true: Last year the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, known colloquially as the "Cap and Trade" bill. However, very little of what the above email says about the legislation is accurate. Let's examine the substantive claims:

CLAIM: 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.

STATUS: FALSE. I've scoured Section 202 of the bill ("Building Retrofit Program"), which supposedly contains this mandate, and found nothing of the kind. Basically, this section lays out the details of a program whereby the federal government will help states provide financial assistance for local governments to conduct cost-effective energy-saving retrofits. Nowhere does it stipulate that owners of existing homes must comply with efficiency standards or obtain a "license" to sell their homes. In point of fact, the House Energy and Commerce Committee's own summary of Section 202 states: "Nothing would require a homeowner to audit or retrofit their home to ensure that it meets building code requirements."

CLAIM: 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.

STATUS: FALSE. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that implementation of of H.R. 2454 would result in federal expenditures costing the average household $175 per year beginning in 2020 (CBO projects little or no cost to the average taxpayer before that).

CLAIM: Sect. 204 - Building Energy Performance Labeling Program establishes a labeling program that for each individual residence will identify the achieved energy efficiency performance.... 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.

STATUS: FALSE AS STATED. Section 204 does provide for the development of a voluntary (for states) energy performance labeling program, but only for new buildings constructed after the legislation is enacted. It states that labeling information must be "accessible to the public in a manner so that owners, lenders, tenants, occupants, of other relevant parties can utilize it," which doesn't necessarily translate to "You will be required to post the label in a conspicuous location in your home." And, as before, the committee summary of Section 204 explicitly states: "Nothing would require a homeowner to audit or retrofit their home to ensure that it meets building code requirements."

CLAIM: 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.

STATUS: TRUE.
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Originally posted by pineywoodscat:
Big GrinLawGuy, You bother to read any of the links?
Probably not, but that's alright. They will read the bills after they are passed, usual procedure.


As a matter of fact I did look at the links provided. While I hold no ill will towards you, I disagree with the post. As Flor De Lis pointed out, some of them simply repeated the same email posted here. One is an op-ed piece in a San Francisco paper (that's some real authority). The Free Republic is by their description: "Free Republic is the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America. And we always have fun doing it. Hoo-yah!" The link provided is just a forum/message post on their site. In other words, the links are all just a bunch of hyped-up right wing garbage. After I looked at those links I did the responsible thing and actually sought out the facts about the bill, not the sky is falling rhetoric. Next thing you know the right will claim the left is trying to take our guns away... Wink
EekerSorry y'all. I am a victi Red Facem of my ownself.
I would normally have studied this much closer.
The source in the past has been trust worthy with their input. This time obviously not so.
I sincerely apologize to the readers and just goes to prove, someone does read and is knowledgeable of things that are posted.
Thanks for looking, I apologize. Red Face
No need to beat yourself up. Heck we all make mistakes and repeat things that turn out to be wrong sometimes. I guess I've just become a cynic everytime I hear ANYTHING that begins with "you won't believe this" or "we can't stand for this" or similar language. I got an email today from a person that trust completely but don't always agree with politically. It was a story about Obama's dog getting his own plane while the Pres was on vacation. Of course the story was almost completely false (with the exception of the fact that the dog actually did fly with some human passengers into a small airport on a separate plane from Obama due to the fact that the airport couldn't accommodate the 747). Anyway the whole point was to spew about 1) the terrific waste of money to fly a dog alone on its own plane, and 2) that the President takes too many vacations. Anyway, the point is a lot of stuff circulated via the internet that's meant to inflame some passion can be quickly debunked with a little research. The people that start these stories depend on people's trust and/or laziness not to do it. Hang in there, cat!

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