Bill may force home energy audits

Shiri Spear
WWLP
Friday, July 3, 2009

FLASHBACK: Bureaucrats Will Carry Out Mandatory Home Inspections Under Climate Bill

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The American Clean Energy and Security Act is aimed at reducing the nation’s energy consumption. The ambitious piece of legislation passed in the House on Friday. It addresses a variety of issues from carbon emissions to planting trees.

The energy bill also proposes a change in how homes are sold. Originally, it called for all “for-sale” homes, old or new, to go through a mandatory energy audit. Subsequently, homeowners would receive a type of “energy performance grade”.

The same way consumers use the nutrition label on a box of cereal, potential home buyers could view the grade like a rundown of energy efficiency.

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Opposition to the energy audits arose from homeowners and realtors. Their concerns were centered on a struggling housing market and the problems an “energy performance grade” could created for homeowners already struggling to make a sale.

Brian Sears, of Sears Real Estate in Springfield told 22News on Wednesday, “If it comes in and it’s not a ‘good’ energy score… It affects the home sellers, the home buyers, it stops the process.”

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8 Responses to “Bill may force home energy audits”

1. Highlanderess Says:
   July 3rd, 2009 at 6:18 am

   They can take their “energy performance grade” and shove it right up their asses.

   

   MADD HATTER Reply:
   July 3rd, 2009 at 7:40 am

   AGREED,and they can burn in hell before I’d submit or take the mark of the beast.

2. Highlanderess Says:
   July 3rd, 2009 at 7:05 am

   Alert; they’re now trying to get a bill through that will make it mandatory that you buy your own insurance. If you don’t you could be fined $1000 or more. WTF!!!!!

   

   JF Reply:
   July 4th, 2009 at 10:34 am

   I already have insurance on my home enough to rebuild and replace anything damaged. We are covered, common sense. I have a 500 year old tree in the front yard that could get damaged in a storm at any time, of course the age is estimated since I am not cutting it down anytime soon, since it still produces leaves and provides great shade for the house in summer. Would that be health insurance then , Highlanderess? I have heard of this cockamamie baloney, who do they think they are kiddding? If people are too poor to afford private coverage, there is medicaid, medicare for the elderly and most employers of more than a certain number provide their employees with insurance. I don’t see how fining people thousands of dollars is going to help anyone, least of all the unfortunates caught between a rock and a hard place. Been there done that too. There is no way while my husband was unemployed that we could afford such steep fines. What is next, jail for not having enough money for the highway robbers called insurance companies?

3. Beel Says:
   July 3rd, 2009 at 8:32 am

   One bad thing is that THEY can assess your energy usage without US knowing anything about it, until THEY send the bill! (or just take it out of your check)

4. buyaraincoatbuildaboat Says:
   July 3rd, 2009 at 9:37 am

   what are they going to do with all those remnants of houses?

5. ProofMJMurdered Says:
   July 4th, 2009 at 3:19 am

   911 Call Proves Foul Play in Michael’s Death
   The person who made the 911 call said Michael’s body was on the bed and the doctor was performing CPR on the bed. Besides the fact that the doctor didn’t KNOW WHERE CPR is administered, no CPR was administered on the floor.
   ——————————
   Listen at 57 seconds into the 911 Call
   Youtube: Michael Jackson 911 Call
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_sW6vuCtJA

   911 Dispatcher: “Is he on the floor? Where is he at right now?”

   Caller in Home: “He’s on the bed sir…he’s on the bed.”

   911 Dispatcher: “Get him to the floor”

   Caller in Home: “Ok”
   ——————————–
   STOP RIGHT HERE!!!
   “OK?” The caller never instructed the doctor to get Michael to the floor. You don’t hear a damn thing to suggest a the body was moved. Nothing!!!

   Even stranger, the 911 Caller never mention Michael by name. No “Michael Jackson,” “Michael,” “MJ”, “Mike.” NOTHING! IT WAS VERY COLD AND DISTANT.

6. walt Says:
   July 4th, 2009 at 1:20 pm

   I won’t sell my home then.
   I’ll give it to an interested person and charge 200k to sign the contract.
   Or- I’ll give it away and charge 200k closing fees.
   Or- I’ll rent it and apply rent payments to the cost and then give it to them when it’s clear.
   We all have to find loopholes. I, the seller can make my own contract.