Thread: Cap & Scam

Just a little more about their Cap & Scam scheme...I would think that ANYONE who owns a house now would be against this ridiculous bill JUST for this garbage legislation they put into it...

A LICENSE REQUIRED FOR YOUR HOUSE VIA "CAP AND TRADE!"
If Congress strong arms this through they are placing yet another nail in America's coffin. Our government is totally out of control. Thinking about selling your house. Take a look at H.R. 2454. (Cap and Trade bill), that has passed the House of Representatives and being considered by the Senate. Home owners take note & 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 Act. H.R. 2454, the "Cap & Trade" bill 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. A year from now you won't be able to sell your house.

The 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. Cost $200 to start. 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, which easily could cost over $50,000.

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 President Obama, 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.

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.

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.

CHECK OUT Just a few of the explanatory sites;

Cap and Trade: A License Required for your Home

http://www.nachi.org/forum/f14/cap-and- ... ome-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-tra ... -home.html

Cap and trade is a license to cheat and steal: http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/colum ... 71937.html

Thinking about selling you House? Look at HR 2454: http://www.federalobserver.com/2009/10/ ... rade-bill/

this is a SCAM and the U.S.Federal Government is Complicit ....

RACKETEERING is A FEDERAL OFFENCE and is COVERED UNDER THE RICO ACT

It does NOTHING for the Environment and is being used to Redistribute Wealth to the 3rd world Nations and a Huge Money Laundering Scheme

the Cap & Trade program - AKA the "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009"

I have to laugh at the names of all of these communist 'screw the American middle class' bills that those underachieving losers in Congress come up with. Security, eh? Ha. Are they really that stupid? Do they really think that WE are that stupid?