What? Oh, yes. The cap-and-trade bill recently passed by the Pelosi-led House of Representatives:
"…in order to sell your home—whether built in 2006 or 1772—you would have to bring it into compliance with whimsical, eternally evolving national ‘energy efficiency’ standards, starting with a 50 per cent reduction in energy use by 2018. Fail to do so and it would be illegal for you to enter into a private contract with a willing buyer."
Via Mark Steyn.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Oops. Which may mean that if you are left penniless and your only property is your house… not good.
So far we have other resources to use for Mr. B.’s college. Unless the economy stays in its current mode. Or gets worse.
But I have no idea how we’d achieve fifty percent greater efficiency unless we cover the roof with solar cells or get rid of the refrigerator and start using ice like our great grandparents.
That’s a great idea.
Just get rid of your stove, fridge and hot-water heater and install a woodburning deal for stove and hot water and an ice-box for a fridge.
Then, “give” the buyer a stove, fridge and hot-water heater you just happen to have in your garage.
Heh. Except for the other provisions in the bill that require you to diminish your carbon footprint, which eliminates burning a lot of wood.
Eh, you live in Texas, it’s hot there and with global warming it’ll get hotter.
Just put a bath-tub on the roof and say it’s “solar hot water” and use an icebox.
Then, do what I said about the stuff you just happen to have in your garage.
It’s not hot here all the time and, besides, we don’t live in the slums. If this bill passes the Senate I may very well initiate a lawsuit against it. Property rights are the essential ones to my mind. If they don’t exist, none others are worth anything.