Team Biden Bribes States with $400 Million to Adopt Senseless, “Climate-Crisis”-Inspired Building Codes
Biden’s bureaucrats decided to use fiscal persuasion. After all, it appears to work for their boss.
Earlier this summer, the Biden administration announced it was directing $90 million to states as part of a larger infrastructure bill, in hopes that new building rules would be mandated that are inspired by “climate crisis” pseudoscience. It was part of the “Inflation Reduction Act,” which more properly identifies as the “Green New Deal.”
The Energy Department will distribute the grants to 27 projects in 26 states and the District of Columbia.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm will announce the funding on Wednesday during a visit to Louisiana, where Hurricane Katrina in 2005 destroyed or damaged more than 800,000 homes and caused an estimated $125 billion in damage overall.
However, that amount doesn’t appear to be enough to tempt states to amend their rules in favor of the environmental activist agendas. So, Team Biden has now upped the “bribe” to $400 million.
A senior administration official told reporters Monday that under the codes, new buildings and major renovations would be done with better construction and in a way that is more efficient and resilient.
The Energy Department said in a press release announcing the funding that homes built using modern energy codes are 40 percent more efficient than homes built 15 years ago.
One has to wonder why there is a need to unleash this much green in the pursuit of a green energy utopia. There are likely many causes, chief of which is Biden’s sinking poll numbers. The data is so bad that Democratic operatives are worried.
Democratic strategist James Carville sounded the alarm about President Biden on Thursday, telling a CNN audience his poll numbers were “troubling” and a clear expression of voter apprehension.
“Well, I guess, to say the least, the polls were not great,” Carville said when asked about the concern around Biden’s age in a recent CNN poll. “And it tells us that voters are expressing some apprehension here. It’s pretty clear. There’s not much else you can say when you look at them.”
The CNN poll found that 49% of those surveyed flagged Biden’s “age” as their biggest concern about Biden as a presidential candidate. Another 7% said that Biden’s “mental sharpness” was a concern, while 7% said “health,” and another 7% said that Biden’s ability to do the job was a factor for concern.
Perhaps the move is an attempt to beef up support from eco-crazed constituents. Alternatively, it could be an attempt to divert as many funds to preferred agencies and organizations while the administration can do so.
Additionally, green policies are becoming increasingly less popular, especially as the realities associated with their implementation kick in. A new book, Green Breakdown, describes all the failures and misinformation related to the new construction policies the administration wants implemented, including:
- After almost $4 trillion spent globally on renewable energy from 2000 to 2018, why were coal, oil, and natural gas still providing 81 percent of world energy in 2018, the same share as in 1991?
- If electricity produced by wind and solar is cheaper, why do Denmark and Germany, the European nations with the most wind and solar capacity per person, have the highest electricity prices?
- Since electricity produced by burning biomass emits at least 50 percent more carbon dioxide per megawatt of power than burning coal, why is biomass considered zero emissions?
- If global warming makes storms more frequent, why does data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that hurricane land falls in the United States have been slightly declining since 1850?
- Since less than five watt-hours of every million watt-hours of US electricity consumption are stored in grid-scale batteries, how can batteries solve the problem of wind and solar intermittency?
Finally, housing starts are plummeting.
The number of housing starts fell in August, an indication of the challenges facing the housing market.
Housing starts, the change in the number of new residential buildings that began construction, fell 11.3% from July to this past month, according to a Wednesday report from the Census Bureau. They are now at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.283 million. From August 2022, they fell 14.8%. That marks the lowest level since June 2020.
It’s going to be difficult to persuade states to adopt more construction-killing rules under these circumstances, so maybe Biden’s bureaucrats decided to use fiscal persuasion.
After all, it appears to work for their boss.
The only thing green about this move is the money it will waste…driving up inflation.
Burning our money and making things more expensive at the same time.
— Jay LTKA (Blue Check Here) (@JayNeckhammer) September 19, 2023
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Well if there’s one thing this doddering fraud understands, it’s bribes.
So the plan is to bribe more-than-willing governors (inslee, newsom) to drive up the cost of new housing—- a task which they need no help in doing… to make their blue state hell holes even less affordable to live in.
I LOVE IT.
“”I LOVE IT.””
I don’t. It just means more Californians moving to Texas.
If there’s one thing these people hold sacred, it’s murdering babies.
Keep passing pro-life legislation and they’ll keep their distance- it’s pure lefty repellant. Tough on crime legislation helps out too. That’s why they keep electing the same people over and over again. They’d rather burn in a living hell where it’s legal to murder the unborn than live in a community that prospers.
Keep them in pen with the cattle. I’m a problem solver.
What did those poor cows do to deserve that?
“At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.”
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism/
Trace this money… a large percentage of it will wind back in the Dim pol pockets as ‘campaign contributions.’ Then throw every single last one of these corrupt Marxist cunts in prison under RICO.
It’s hard to counter unscrupulous pols with access to “unlimited” supplies of taxpayer money to use for graft.
How about cutting out the money-laundering, Green New Deal middlemen, and just using dollar bills as a fuel source? (No fossil fuels.)
This is almost certainly false. This number conflates total energy use with efficiency.
And some of the efficiencies are anything but efficient. LEED standards for example require a certain percentage of inside air to be vented outside and replaced with outside air with every circulation cycle. That’s not too bad in moderate climates, but once you hit very hot or very cold, you’re venting a great amount of air that took a lot of energy to bring to a comfortable level, so even if your building is insulated like a thermos, it’s spewing a vast expensive thermal plume.
“listen to the words of former United Nations climate official Ottmar Edenhofer:
“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole,” said Edenhofer, who co-chaired the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015…
We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy,” said Edenhofer.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/another-climate-alarmist-admits-real-motive-behind-warming-scare/
“Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti admitted recently that the true motivation behind introducing the Green New Deal is to overhaul the “entire economy.”
“Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing,” he added.”
https://news.yahoo.com/aoc-chief-staff-admits-green-124408358.html
With the interest portion of mortgage costs growing folks can’t afford to buy. Nor are current owner occupied homes going to come to market as often b/c these folks have locked in interest costs less than 50% of what they pay for a new mortgage if they sold. Other than empty nest folks choosing to sell while prices are still relatively high, downsize and move to a lower cost area and those who inherent or have have significant equity I don’t see room for much turnover for existing homes.
So called “Climate Change”, the grift of the century.
And it goes back to “Under what provision of the Constitution are you authorized to send taxpayer money to the states?” and “What authority in the Constitution lets you govern building codes?”
Repeal the 16th Amendment.
90% of regulations can/should be scrapped. It’s impossible to protect idiots from themselves, and there’s no reason why the rest of the populace should be saddled with the costs, financial and otherwise, of compliance with inane mandates from on high.
Why is the GOP controlled House funding this? Or is this leftover money from when Pelosi ran the joint. In which case, no new budget until this money is redirected to regular spending.
It’s looking like they may not be funding much of anything at least for little while.
Their idea of “better construction” won’t have much to do with my idea of it. Biden’s idea of a “better washing machine” is my idea of a worse one.