Homeowners, which of these consumes more energy in your house: space heating or water heating? Either way, Uncle Sam is ready to help you pay for some energy-efficient upgrades.
The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Biden a year ago, created two energy-efficiency rebate programs that could pay some, or even all, of the costs of buying Energy Star-rated appliances, adding insulation or otherwise making your home more efficient.
The rub: States will administer the programs, and each one must apply for its share of the $8.8 billion in federal funds earmarked for the rebates. And some states may opt out.
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One state has already indicated it probably won’t participate. Lawmakers in Tallahassee voted to apply for Florida’s allocation — which, at roughly $346 million, is the third-largest in the country, behind California and Texas. But Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed the measure as “woke.” The DoE has not been officially notified, so DeSantis could still change his mind.
They don’t need it. They’ll just get new appliances with the insurance money after a hurricane destroyed their last house.
Not gonna be long before that’s impossible. Home insurers are leaving Florida.
I really want Floridians to roll that around in their minds. The insurance industry - the most craven, most money-hungry industry in existence - is leaving Florida because it’s becoming too risky to insure homes there.
This is your canary-in-a-coal-mine moment, Florida.
They’d just berate the canary for being a pussy. After all, their boss said it was perfectly safe. Would he lie?
Need more free-er canaries
Coal fumes and methane are just the smell of FREEDOM!
Coal canaries? Heeeel yea!
Unsurprisingly, it’s kinda difficult to get flood insurance in Florida, so they’re probably screwed down that avenue. They voted for the fucker, though, so… Karma?
It’s actually difficult to get any form of home insurance in Florida now. Many major insurance companies have left the state because they felt it was too risky.
Flood insurance is provided by the NFIP, mostly, which is a federally run program by FEMA. The cost may be prohibitive in some areas due to the frequency of flooding unless mitigated but they will write anywhere.
That said communities can choose to not participate in the NFIP and as such flood insurance with the NFIP will be unavailable. (Maybe this is what you are referring to?) There are also some coverage limitations as far as maximum amounts, $250k building & $100k contents, they will cover that can require you to seek excess flood insurance from private companies.
There are private flood insurance companies as well but nearly everyone gets at least the first layer of coverage from the NFIP and uses private companies for excess.
I.e., taxpayers nationwide have their income tax dollars diverted so that people can have their homes rebuilt indefinitely on a glorified sandbar in a known high risk hurricane area.
Excellent info. Note I said it was difficult to get, not impossible. I’m including prohibitive costs in that difficulty since, if you can’t pay for it, it’s as good as not being available anyway.
Whoa! Big spenders with their fancy Floridian homeowners insurance.