What you don't know about the Crap & Charade Bull!

Some minor overlooked details of the Crap & Charade bill that passed the House are finally starting to come out. The industry killing propsal will not only make our energy bills increase to an amount larger than Rosie's road side scale weight - Premier Obama will now have his way into controlling our homes.

Maggie at Thurber's Thoughts quotes this piece from CNS News...

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 develop and implement a national policy for residential and commercial buildings. The purpose of such a strategy – known as the Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) – would be to “facilitate” the retrofitting of existing buildings nationwide. More...

This is the "charade" part of the Crap & Charade bill. Rumor has it that we will have Fart Meters installed on our ass next! I believe Barney Frank has offered to install them for free as a way of keeping costs and his pants down.