How dare you say these people are Fascist! They just want whats best for you, even if you don’t want it
The next front in fighting climate change: your home
The Build Back Better bill, if it ever comes to pass, now seems unlikely to include any major climate change provisions. But we can still reduce our own carbon emissions, starting with our own homes.
About 20% of greenhouse gases in the US come from homes. And the homes of the wealthiest Americans, who can most easily afford climate-saving modernizations, emit about 25% more greenhouse gases per capita than those of lower-income residents. These are problems we can solve, as homeowners, with new technology, and through government incentives.
When we think about our home’s carbon footprint, most of us think of solar panels, but switching to electricity from fossil fuels for heating our home’s air and water may be even more important. More than half of the energy homes use is for heating and air conditioning, and nearly two-thirds of US homes rely on fossil fuels for heat.
They want to force you to no longer be able to use natural gas. Many places are stopping the construction of new homes using natural gas. Obviously, the next step is to force those with existing NG hookups to switch them. That’d be rather expensive.
End permits for buildings heated by fossil fuels
I have NG for heating and the fireplace. It’s a whole lot less expensive than electricity. I wish the water heater was on NG.
Give homeowners electrification incentives
Let’s print more money! And, if you don’t except, you’ll be force to do this.
Use more eco-friendly materials and construction methods
Ones which will be a lot more expensive, to start.
As home construction, power generation, and heating and cooling technologies change, we just have to make sure our thinking changes, too. Home ownership now comes with new responsibilities, and new opportunities to leave the world better than we found it. This involves learning about a new kind of economics, not only to own a home, but to run it. Our goal can be not just to benefit our own family, but all of us.
Or, these cultists can, with all do respect, fuck off and mind their own business.
Lol
Teach fossil fuel prices are skyrocketing!!
Do you really think that spending money on insulating new homes is a bad idea because it makes them more expensive? Duke Power is rapidly transitioning away from fossil fuels
From the evil reich wing Washington Post:
In 1939, Admiral Ernest King, “the man who shaves with a blowtorch,” but one who wasn’t well-liked, was sent packing to an elephant’s graveyard, an advisory board in which senior officers marking time until retirement were sent. But with World War II breaking out, and the United States already involved in ‘helping’ His Majesty’s Government, Admiral King was called back to real duty, and is said to have remarked, “When they get in trouble, they send for the sons of bitches.” When solar and wind aren’t going to be enough, when we need more power than the renewables can reliably generate, they send for the sons of bitches and start burning coal to keep the lights on.
For exactly NO other reason than government interference.
Aren’t you proud?
Please explain how this is a beneficial thing.
Do you really think that spending money on insulating new homes is a bad idea because it makes them more expensive?
By all means, you spend whatever YOU think is necessary on YOUR house.
But then, that’s not what you fascists are after, is it?
Our esteemed host quoted:
It was 2018, in very liberal Massachusetts, that This Old House had yet another remodeling project, and, despite all of the worry about
global warmingclimate change, brand new natural gas-fired heating and hot water systems were installed. It seems that even the liberals in the Bay State choose what’s best for their own lives rather than what the warmunists want.Of course, there were 32.14% of the voters in Massachusetts who were smart enough to vote for President Trump in 2020, so perhaps, just perhaps, the homeowners in this project were among the wiser voters.
Perhaps Massachusetts should rename itself “Masshysterics” and get the BS over with.
I’ve shoveled coal into a coal furnace to keep warm in the winter. I don’t dislike coal for its environmental impact but because it was such a PITA to use on an individual basis. I have to admit that the smell of coal smoke does have a way of taking me back. I regularly see trains of coal headed one place or another. Always makes me glad.