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Why don’t we have energy efficiency ratings on properties for sale or rent in the United States like the European Union does?

Why don’t we have energy efficiency ratings on properties for sale or rent in the United States like the European Union does?

Recently, I was on vacation in France and noticed that advertisements of properties for sale contained 2 colorful charts ranking properties on a scale from A to G.  Here is an example of what I saw on every French real estate listing:  I took a picture of the charts and later used google translate to figure out what was being measured. The title in green translates to “Energetic performance,” which I assume is more correctly stated as Energy performance in…

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