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Originally Posted by cobra de capell
Did you read the bill, VRM? I doubt it....
The bill creates a Federal Government Administrator - once this is done, all kinds of requirements are bound to follow....with states simply in the role of carrying out the requirements. You really need to wake up.
"The Administrator" is the Federal Government can someone say, "Tenth Ammendment?"
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CdC,
Keep the personal comments to yourself or you will get this thread closed as well.
I've read through this part before, as well as a couple of other sections (regarding nuke power/renewable power, and cars). I can give you a link if you want to read the full text of the bill that passed the House.
There is nothing in the bill that says anything about not being able to sell a house. The bill does define an administrator to come up with a set of standards that can be applied to new buildings, as well as improvements that can be made to existing buildings. If you want to sell a house with an 'Energy Star' rating (or whatever they want to call it) then you have to meet certain criteria. There is nothing mandatory about it, but there are financial incentives.
The administrator defines the standards - this is mostly good as a universal standard is easier to manage and test than 50 individual ones. The real drawback is that fine tuning to individual state climates will probably be more difficult to manage; attic insulation in FL is a lot less crucial than in ME. We do this now with gasoline, and that has caused problems in the past.
As far as what
might happen that is pure speculation, but this bill makes no provisions for any sort of lock-down on home or property sales for not complying with any of the standards yet to be defined.
Steve