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even if this is true(I haven't investigated it as of yet)it is no different that a bill that was passed years ago requiring proper disposal of sewage waste for years people dumped in a creek or stream...or just on the land...now you must have a septic tank or city sewage...now what way do you think is better ???


2. MissNadia 10:38 AM CDT on September 26, 2009
Hi.

CAN THIS BE HAPPENING?????




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.

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., ex$pen$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 (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.

Quoting StSimonsIslandGAGuy:
Well, a bunch of us wrote to admin about the Ben Dover title MLC used yesterday, and the "Grab your Ankles" title with the Vaseline jar, it's obvious what he's talking about today, and he knows it. MLC has never liked gays, given his past record Not an attack, just a fact.

Doesn't he have a "right" not to like gays?
Some say homophobia others say homodisgust.
You obviously don't like people who don't like gays. What's the difference?
Not an attack here either, just a fact.

Quoting StSimonsIslandGAGuy:
Well, a bunch of us wrote to admin about the Ben Dover title MLC used yesterday, and the "Grab your Ankles" title with the Vaseline jar, it's obvious what he's talking about today, and he knows it. MLC has never liked gays, given his past record Not an attack, just a fact.

I dont see it as a Gay thing...but a few months ago I was banned for a similar statement involving a cartoon silhouette and a gas pump nozzle...back when gas was almost 4 dollars a gallon...

Quoting BayCat:
re post 52

It's just more BS, Auburn. I guess if they didn't make this stuff up, they'd have nothing (valid) to say. This is from the National Association of Realtors:

Claim: "The bill mandates energy audits and labeling before any home in America is sold."

Fact: The bill does not create a federal energy audit or labeling requirement. As introduced, the original bill would have required energy audits and labeling at the time of sale. However, Realtors succeeded in making many positive changes before the bill passed. Many published reports are not based on the version of the bill that was considered by the House.

link

Thanks for the research on that Bay!!!

Aub darlin', you know I love you and yours. I have to ask however, why give voice to others?

Quoting BayCat:

It true, everyone has the "right" to be a bigot in this country, if they choose. Having the "right" doesn't make it right, however.

You should look up the definition of biggot.
It's a two-way street.

SSI, I appreciate you both. Rich and I go way back. Your obsession with Vort is wayyyy off base however. You hit him, he comes back and hits you, (edited: sometimes the other way around). Doesn't make it right. You are off base thinking Vort was the "other" person though. It's a person that you go to on another site. Those who know have cracked up laughing at all concerned with it. The one who posted the crap to you is laughing the most though. Again, why give voice?

I love when the right wing loonies start
to scream about freedom of speech and First
amenfment rights - as long as it goes
THEIR way., but rest assured if it were
truly up to them, opposing voices would be
quashed like, "They're unAmerican" or
"We have to wire tape" or "They're unpatriotic"

No.....they have no idea what the constitution is all about.

Quoting StSimonsIslandGAGuy:
TheShpepherd, you're a good example of that. You posted on Dr. Rood's climate blog that all gays should be killed because the Bible says so, and the same thing on my blog---this was right after vortfix was permabanned. So you have no problem expressing your feelings about gays, theshepherd.

If you said all blacks should be killed, or all mexicans, or all asians, would that be ok?

Link to where he said it--comment's been removed, but theshepherd did say all gays should be killed at comment #103.

Link

What you say is not true.
I would have been banned for that.

Quoting StSimonsIslandGAGuy:
I don't think vort and theshepherd are the same person. I've seen no evidence of that.

You blamed vort on booey. Not so!!

What Vort and Shepherd the same person ?

This is getting laughable people.

Quoting StSimonsIslandGAGuy:
I don't think vort and theshepherd are the same person. I've seen no evidence of that.

No not the same person at all...and like all the rest of us they each have their good and bad points...ya have to be able to see the good in people though SSI...Its there in most people.

Me?? Several bloggers? Current bloggers or those who have an ax to grind? You can bet if it was me, I would have done it as me. Rich knows this. I don't hide my hits. Don't hit much anymore, really not worth it. I finally got it! We are not a small group any longer. And others, even if we disagree with them, have something to offer.

Take it up with admin, if you ever think it me. Aaron always knows my whereabouts, my iPhone status, etc. If I hit, I want it KNOWN it comes from me. I don't hide behind fake handles. Not my style!

Quoting StSimonsIslandGAGuy:
It is true, and you're not the first to have said that who didn't get banned either, shepherd. And I don't feel like debating with someone who thinks that they are civil while attacking another blogger with whom they have never had contact, and calling for the extermination of all gays. Which you DID say shepherd.

Oh and the handle was "theshepherdx" If that was not you, I'm sorry. If you got a weeks ban for that stunt, it was well earned and not enough.

You know full well I never said that. Your false claims and accusations are becoming well known.
Of course theshepherdx was a handle I aquired on a temporary basis that the Admin is well aware of. I have communicated with them and no harm or attempt to circumvent a ban was ever in question.
I've never been banned for more than 24 hrs and it had nothing to do with the missrepresentations you speak of.

Shepherd, you did. I have no idea if your handle theshepherdx was banned for 24, 48, 96 hours, a week, or not at all.

And I think everyone should know that you are the kind of person who attacks another without any prior contact and urges that a large segment of the population be killed. I see why you deny it, because it is embarrassing, but it is true.

Code neither of us thought you were booeyb52.

I'm Mike, posting under my handle, cause I'm fixing to go raise trouble, and if Rich gets his handle banned he's gonna be pissed.

Quoting hurricane30:
Shepherd, you did. I have no idea if your handle theshepherdx was banned for 24, 48, 96 hours, a week, or not at all.

And I think everyone should know that you are the kind of person who attacks another without any prior contact and urges that a large segment of the population be killed. I see why you deny it, because it is embarrassing, but it is true.

Geeesch.

Quoting StSimonsIslandGAGuy:
I have no idea who booeyb52 is---several bloggers said that was you code---I really don't believe that because I think you would go right out and say what you think though.

Quoting hurricane30:
Code neither of us thought you were booeyb52.

Quoting hurricane30:
Code neither of us thought you were booeyb52.

Thanks. Is this another of your handles? Makes it oh so confusing as to who we are speaking with. Why have many handles? If you are man or woman, and don't have balls or toys to say what you wish to say as yourself, your words don't really mean much. How's that for poor grammar and sentence structure?

Aub, you didn't answer me. I'll be seeing you soon, and will hold your toes to the fire over it! Soreness won't give you a break either! LMAO

I have no clue who said what to whom...I missed all that...I can say I enjoy talking to you all and seeing different points of view

Quoting hurricane30:
I'm Mike, posting under my handle, cause I'm fixing to go raise trouble, and if Rich gets his handle banned he's gonna be pissed.

Is that supposed to raise fear in those who speak the truth. Rich will be upset???

I wish everyone would just be who they are...if you feel the need to say something that you dont want related to you...well the best thing to do is just not say it...If I cant say what I feel as myself...I will just keep it to myself

So War Eagle, looks like we'll miss you guys this year.
BTW, who is Fla International??? Woo Hoo

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who is Fla International?

I have no clue...hummm

It's a college in Miami!

Quoting code1:
Aub darlin', you know I love you and yours. I have to ask however, why give voice to others?

I dont know Code...its just hard for me to understand how people can be so uncaring for their fellow man ...and so shallow that they cant stand an opposing view...guess I am just trying to understand that mentality...so far no luck

Quoting code1:
It's a college in Miami!

Hummm never heard of it before...

Quoting auburn:


I dont know Code...its just hard for me to understand how people can be so uncaring for their fellow man ...and so shallow that they cant stand an opposing view...guess I am just trying to understand that mentality...so far no luck

Yeppers aub, and this blog is fast going downhill and I am outta here. My Cats are gonna be Gator bait tonight in Commonwealth of all places! LOL See ya when you get here.

Quoting code1:
It's a college in Miami!

I'd we rather play Auburn Univ...What a great rivalry for sure.

Quoting theshepherd:
I'd we rather play Auburn Univ...What a great rivalry for sure.

Why aren't they playing one another this year?

Quoting theshepherd:
I'd we rather play Auburn Univ...What a great rivalry for sure.

If I had my 'ruthers, I'd be at Two Keys Tavern in Lexington right now as well, hyping and BS'ing our way through making a good showing against the Gators. Neither is gonna happen though.

Off to da beach. Y'all have a good one!!!