Some outlets are saying we will have to make all our homes meet these new energy standards before we can sell them. Is this true? I can't find a copy of the bill to search for that yet. Like we'd all need smaller carbon footprint - what about having oil-based heat? Have to add more attic insulation to my 1927 home? Would I need 100% energy good windows on all 32 windows in my old home? Caulk the whole place?
I mean its in reasonable living condition, but using technology from the 60s or earlier for most energy appliances, furnace, etc.
How much will it add to my expenses in selling a house???
Thanks,
Ann
Ann
of PA
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Jul 01, 2009 10:51:44 AM
tax
Geeze! A new tax! Just what the doctor ordered?
Barry
of OH
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Jun 30, 2009 11:32:07 AM
What the heck are they thinking?
I would love to see ONE politician live on minimum wage. Then they would realize $1500 to the average American is hard to come up with, and stop passing ridiculous bills that accomplish nothing but lining their own pockets.
Jamie
of MI
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Jun 27, 2009 00:53:46 AM
CO2 Tax
The bottom line is that YOU are going to have less money to feed your family. These taxes on the production of energy will be simply passed on the consumer (YOU). Everything will cost more and there will be FEWER jobs for you. Manufacturing will completely move offshore for numerous reasons. US companies will simply pass on any tariff placed on them for manufacturing in a carbon polluting county. This is all to reduce our carbon emissions which will accomplish nothing. The only winners in this are the carbon traders and the liberal politicians that support them. Enjoy the unemployment checks.
Sincerely,
Working father with a wife and two kids.
Matthew Lowe
of CA
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Jun 26, 2009 23:59:36 PM
ridiculous
this bill is absolutely ridiculous, everything is about money...were going green and paying more while the politicians sit back and laugh
nicole
of NJ
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Jun 26, 2009 20:30:08 PM
Cap and Trade
The biggest issue here is that no one is using the correct language for the proposed bill. This is a TAX. Nothing more.... nothing less. To characterize this as anything else is simply dishonest.
Jeff
of GA
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Jun 24, 2009 00:09:21 AM
red scare
What's with the red scare tactics? Cap and trade leads to autocratic socialism? What? Let's all take a deep breath, calm down, and be rational. I invite you to look at the science rather than the vast wash of propaganda coming from those with a vested interest in the status quo & plenty of funds to drown the facts in noise. I think most reasonable adults are concerned about the fates of our children & grandchildren. This is a matter of gathering good information so we can make good decisions for them. We all need to look at the facts and make our priorities: i'm no climatologist but I'm a careful reader, and it sure looks to me like the ongoing rise in global temperatures is driven by human activity, and that nationally and internationally we need to act, because the problem doesn't go away by shouting at it. I plan to proceed accordingly by supporting cap and trade.
e
of MD
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Jun 19, 2009 09:56:08 AM
Cap and Trade is a Hoax
The economy is bad.
The $787 Billion stimulus has done little and won't do much at all to improve the economy. Much is allegedly going to happen 4-6 years in the future.
Lifetime savings have been decimated and will take years to recuperate, if ever.
Obama wants to ram a very expensive healthcare reform down our throats. Healthcare costs to the end consumer are not going to go down!
Pelosi wants to tax reirement income more severely that it already is.
States are raising property taxes, income taxes, and fees on everything under the sun to try and balance their budgets.
And we have a conservative estimate of $1,600 more per year in utility costs for cap and trade in addition to annual increases we have been experiencing in recent years for utilities.
Being on a fixed income, I don't see any Social Security increases for the next 3-4 years at a minimum. A fixed income eroded by inflation and devastated by rising taxes and fees will mean poverty for many of us who faced better circumstances just a few short months ago.
These fiscally irresponsible policies of Obama's administration are creating a terribly bleak future!
Ken
of WI
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Jun 17, 2009 21:11:55 PM
Global Warming?
Before we spend billions or trillions of dollars and basically bankrupt our economy we need to do a few things. The science regarding global warming is quite mixed, that needs to be sorted out since this decade has been cooler than the last. If the Chinese and the Indians don't get on board then we are fools to think we effect much if anything. And why was Greenland named Green, maybe all of this happens regardless of human intervention, I think humans are pretty arrogant to think they have so much effect.
On the issue of job creation those will be probably saved jobs instead of created jobs. If you can believe anything from Washington it is that the excess hot air and the CO2 that they blow around there are causing the problem.
CaptTimD
of FL
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Jun 17, 2009 16:10:56 PM
Cap & Trade/Global Warming Hoax
The progressive movement and its environmental luddites are determined to destroy capitalism and human progress in the name of unproven eco considerations. The computer models often cited to alert us to future calamities can not even accurately predict past climate events. I am amazed that since the 1st Earth Day when we were all to fear the coming ice age then the mantra suddenly became global warming and now that this theory is coming under scrutiny we now have climate change. FYI the climate changes every day, every season, every year. And who is to say that the climatic conditions we now have is the norm or
Since when has CO2 become a pollutant? CO2 (0.3%) is far less of a greenhouse gas as are nitrogen (73%) or water vapor which are never taken into account. Just think of all those hazy, hot summer days and nights when the air is thick with humidity.
If the government can tax so called CO2 polluting industries then they can tax citizens for breathing out CO2. Will we all then need to purchase carbon credits?
Ann of PA @ Jul 01, 2009 10:51:44 AM
Barry of OH @ Jun 30, 2009 11:32:07 AM
Jamie of MI @ Jun 27, 2009 00:53:46 AM
Matthew Lowe of CA @ Jun 26, 2009 23:59:36 PM
nicole of NJ @ Jun 26, 2009 20:30:08 PM
Jeff of GA @ Jun 24, 2009 00:09:21 AM
e of MD @ Jun 19, 2009 09:56:08 AM
Ken of WI @ Jun 17, 2009 21:11:55 PM
CaptTimD of FL @ Jun 17, 2009 16:10:56 PM
robert borkoski of PA @ Jun 17, 2009 09:54:01 AM
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