If you have been following the latest actions from our House of Representatives you are aware they narrowly past an energy bill by the slimmest of margins. What’s upsetting about this bill is that it was voted on by elected officials who for the most part never read the bill. It wasn’t even available in the well of the house during the vote. This bill is the worst thing ever concocted under the guise of helping America in an energy crisis. It will only help to raise taxes and the cost of everything we buy. I say this because everything we buy (food, clothes,medicine, etc) needs energy to be delivered to us. The cost of delivery will be raised because of higher costs of transportation in prices of fuel. Adding to our misery is the fact that this federal government wants to dictate the kind of vehicle we drive, the type of energy we use (solar and wind instead of fossil fuels) because they know what’s best for us! The reality is that wind and solar are much more expensive then using fossil fuels for energy. The Feds continue to use the excuse of “global warming” as the reason we must change and change now. The jury is out on whether we can change the average climate temperature or if it is truly up to mother nature’s control, but that doesn’t stop these “we know what’s best for you” intruders on our right to choose what we think is best for us.
Lets add in the fact that this bill as written will also dictate if you can sell your home or not. In the bill it provides that a federal inspector will determine whether you home meets the energy efficiency level that the government will set. If it does not you as the owner will have to replace or repair those things which are not up to their standards or you will not be allowed to sell your home. The big problem is those standards can change overnight without any notice!
It all adds up to more governmental intervention in our lives, increased costs to everything that we buy, and limiting our choices based on what the Feds determine to be acceptable. AND OUR CONGRESSWOMAN VOTED FOR IT!
I thought after meeting Deb Halvorson and her husband, that these were two people that got it. I thought they understood what the average person has to deal with on a daily basis when it comes to governmental intervention in our lives. I really thought she would stand up for us. I COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE WRONG! At the end of the day she is just another party hack who votes for those things she is told to by the likes of Speaker Pelosi.
Please make sure you let our federal senators (Durbin, and Burris) know that the Senate must vote this piece of legislation down! If not we are in for a much longer recovery and many more months, if not years, of misery before we can start to see the light at the end of the tunnel!
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