Bryan Brah wrote: > Would this law arbitrarily apply to EVERY new building nationwide? What > about Hawaii, where many people don't have heat or AC, and drafty, > semi-permeable walls are desirable? If you can grant an exemption for > Hawaiians, then why not for Floridians?
No, you do NOT want to engineer in a loophole for Floridians. The way people use air conditioners down here, many of them don't even know how to open their windows. Some new houses are built with windows that _don't_ open. Some kids don't even know that windows can be openned. The problem is we have too many transplanted Yankees moving into the state, and they all complain about how hot it gets down here. I have a solution for them: Go back up North. Instead, they crank down their air conditioning units to subarctic levels and leave them there whether or not they are home, to the point that they suck up all of our power grid's reserves on hot days. > An unfunded federal mandate of > this nature would exasperate state and local budget shortfalls unless > there was some provision to pay for additional inspectors with federal > tax money. Indeed. And we have WAY too many unfunded mandates already. > Assuming that you could overcome these problems, there would still be > the problem of fair application of the law. Since building codes are > local, they vary widely. In some communities, building a new structure > utilizing even a single wall of an existing structure constitutes a > remodel, even if the rest of the structure is demolished. Indeed. This is how people down here get around the restriction on new building in hurricane zones. They can't knock down the old house and build a new one, so they build a new one around the old one, use some of the old house's structure in the new house, and demolish the rest. This is how we've gone from hundred-thousand dollar houses to milti-million dollar houses in hurricane zones, just waiting for the next big storm to wash them into the Gulf, so that their owners can get low interest FEMA loans to build even bigger houses. > Sorry, but the only food for thought your suggestion provides is pie in > the sky. We're not going to find solutions to any of our problems in > new laws, particularly one-size-fits-all federal laws. No doubt. Those one-size-fits-all laws almost always don't. > If you insist on a government solution, then offer meaningful tax > incentives to those individuals and companies that build responsibly. Yes. Apply the carrot instead of the stick. AP Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
