Cap and Trade Bad for Building and Housing market

MOST IMPORTANT THE CONSTITUTION DOES NOT GRANT these POWERS to Congress. THEY TOOK AN OATH/AFFIRMATION they WILL TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY PRESERVE, PROTECT AND DEFEND the CONSTITUTION OF the United States.

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H.R. Bill 2454 was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce On May 15, 2009 and this new legislation was passed through the House on June 26, 2009 a Friday night, Over 1200 pages unread by the majority of Congress. Inserted into the bill was a new NATIONAL BUILDING CODE. There is language that would have a national building code override your local and state codes. Bill H.R. 2454 would allow the federal government's power to supersede state and local building codes... By 2012 it requires that of new buildings be 30 percent more efficient than they would have been under current regulations. By 2016, that figure rises to 50 percent, with increases scheduled for years after that. With those targets in mind, the bill expects organizations that develop model codes for states and localities to fill in the details, creating a national code. If they don't, the bill commands the Energy Department to draft a national code itself. In the meantime states would have to adopt the national code or one that achieves the same efficiency targets. Those that refuse will see their codes overwritten automatically, and they will be docked federal funds and carbon "allowances" --valuable securities created elsewhere in the bill that give the holder the right to pollute and can be sold. The Energy Department also could enforce its code itself. Among other things, the policy would demonstrate the new leverage of allocation of allowances as a sort of carbon currency --leverage this bill would be giving to Congress to direct state behavior. washingtonpost.com. H.R.2454 SEC. 304. LINK: thomas.loc..gov GREATER ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN BUILDING CODES (b) National Energy Efficiency Building Codes- (1) REQUIREMENT- (A) IN GENERAL- There shall be established national energy efficiency building codes under this subsection, for residential and commercial buildings, sufficient to meet each of the national building code energy efficiency targets established under subsection (a), not later than the date that is one year after the deadline for establishment of each such target. `(A) effective on the date of enactment of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, 30 percent reduction in energy use relative to a comparable building constructed in compliance with the baseline code; `(B) effective January 1, 2014, for residential buildings, and January 1, 2015, for commercial buildings, 50 percent reduction in energy use relative to the baseline code; and `(C) effective January 1, 2017, for residential buildings, and January 1, 2018, for commercial buildings, and every 3 years thereafter, respectively, through January 1, 2029, and January 1, 2030, 5 percent additional reduction in energy use relative to the baseline code. This bill would:

1. Increase building costs
2. Increase appraisal costs Increase inspection lead times before a home can close. You think it is bad now with HVCC just wait until this bill passes.
3. Require every appraiser is retrained to understand these new federal energy efficiency guidelines. Who pays?
4. Increase mortgage costs.
5. Reduce home sales
6. Increase regulations in areas that are in flood zones and exposed to hurricanes.

Not only is this bill confusing it affects the economy with loss of jobs increase the cost of energy and add new taxes to burden citizens. For it to be passed within a month without being read is malfeasance and a derelict of duty by those in Congress who voted for it. The bill was received in the Senate on July 6, 2009 read the first time. Read the second time on July 7, 2009 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 97. I ask you if Congress couldn't read a bill with over 1200 pages in over a month, how did the Senate read it in one day and on July 7, 2009 read it for a second time? If this Bill passes the Senate in it's entirety it will effect eve y builder, commercial and residential property owner in America with higher taxes and more restrictions. It is more than past time for "WE the PEOPLE "to let our voices be heard STAND UP AMERICA and CONTACT YOUR SENATORS TODAY AND ASK THEM TO BE RESPONSIBLE AND VOTE NO. Barbara runs American Freedom website. Barbara can be reached at: barbaraespinosa@msn.com