California Is Making Solar Panels A Requirement On All New Homes
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May 12, 2018Oh look! Another reason to avoid building a home in California like the plague.
California has a new rule, and it’s extremely proud of this new rule. It’s the first state in the nation to require all new homes to have solar panels. You know. In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save the planet and whatnot.
That’ll help with home prices! //intense sarc
In a unanimous 5-0 vote Wednesday, the California Energy Commission approved the policy.
The regulation will require all homes and apartments built after 2020 to have solar panels, adding an average of roughly $10,000 to construction costs for a single-family home. On the flip side, the commission says, the panels could yield much more in energy savings.
Few industry groups outwardly oppose the plan after working for years with the commission to shape the regulations. But Republican legislative leaders said Californians can’t afford to pay any more for housing in the state’s already expensive market.
“That’s just going to drive the cost up and make California, once again, not affordable to live,” said Assemblyman Brian Dahle, the chamber’s Republican leader.
Well, it’s already completely unaffordable, so what’s new? Cali lawmakers are upholding their reputation.
The solar panel decision is just the latest example of what critics see as the state’s ever-evolving nanny-state policies. California often is at the leading edge of government mandates and bans, having recently prohibited everything from plastic bags to foie gras – and even flirting with phasing out internal combustion engines.
Next thing you know, they will start prosecuting people for carrying potato peelers in public. It’s only a matter of time, really. Nanny states gonna nanny state.
Bill Watt, a homebuilder and design consultant, told The Orange County Register the added solar panel costs, in addition to other building mandates, will make homeownership out of reach for many buyers.
“We’re not building enough housing already,” Watt, former president of the Orange County Building Industry Association, told The OCR. “Why not just pause for a little while, focus on the affordability and housing issues, then circle back?”
‘Cause the nanny state is the ONLY thing standing between you and breathable air, dimwits!
We joke, but that’s actually how these people think.
Brb. Adding this to the ever-growing list of reasons why I will never live in California.
h/t Fox News
