Cap and Trade Bill Requires Home Audits and Retrofits

See article:

http://www.cnsnews.com/pu...

Here are some quotes from the bill in the article:

“The Administrator shall develop and implement, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, standards for a national energy and environmental building retrofit policy for single-family and multi-family residences,”

“The purpose of the REEP program is to facilitate the retrofitting of existing buildings across the United States.”

“States and local government entities may administer a REEP program in a manner that authorizes public or regulated investor-owned utilities, building auditors and inspectors, contractors, nonprofit organizations, for-profit companies, and other entities to perform audits and retrofit services,”

Excerpts from article's comments on the bill:

This means that homeowners, for example, could be required to retrofit their homes to meet federal “green” guidelines in order to sell their homes, if the cap-and-trade bill becomes law.

The bill leaves the definition of a retrofit and the details of the REEP program up to the EPA. However, states are responsible for ensuring that the government’s plans are carried out, whatever the final details may entail.

To help pay for the cost of these retrofits, states and localities may provide loans, utility rebates, tax rebates, or implement retrofit programs of their own.

My comments:

The evil idiocy from Washington never stops.

These requirements will enrich the politicos' cronies while imposing ruinous hardships on people who are selling to avoid total disaster.

The article states that the "government" will pay up to 50 percent of the cost of a retrofit through financial awards to individual owners. That might mitigate the hardship somewhat, but it's more unconstitutional government spending.

Also, if homeowners have to retrofit homes before sale, can we expect a lot of mysterious fires in bank-owned foreclosed homes? The banks can't lose. If the 50% payment for the retrofit doesn't help their bottom line enough, the insurance payout will surely do the trick.