Does the Energy Bill require retrofitting homes before reselling?
If you were thinking of selling your home, you might as well forget about it. You’ll have to spend thousands to help battle the global warming hoax first. Under the new democratic cap and trade legislation all US homes will have to meet strict government eco-standards before they can be sold. This will cost homeowners thousands of dollars before the home can even be put up for sale. CNS News reported, via Free Republic: The 1,400-page cap-and-trade legislation pushed through by House Democrats contains a new federal policy that residential, commercial, and government buildings be retrofitted to increase energy efficiency, leaving it up to the states to figure out exactly how to do that. 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, which now goes to the Senate, directs the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to dev
Distorting article, Fox Nation claims “Pelosi Requires All Homes to Meet Eco-Standards Before … Sold” July 01, 2009 3:46 pm ET On July 1, the Fox Nation linked to an article from the conservative news organization CNSNews.com under the headline, “Pelosi Requires All Homes to Meet Eco-Standards Before They Can Be Sold” — a claim not supported by the CNS article. CNSNews.com’s Matt Cover reported that the American Clean Energy and Security Act recently passed by the House of Representatives “contains a new federal policy that residential, commercial, and government buildings be retrofitted to increase energy efficiency, leaving it up to the states to figure out exactly how to do that.” Cover then theorized that this policy “means that homeowners, for example, could be required to retrofit their homes to meet federal ‘green’ guidelines in order to sell their homes.” As Media Matters for America has documented, the Fox Nation has frequentl
